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Prime Minister Harper asks Obama for quick decision on pipeline

As expected, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper did push President Obama for a quick decision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands crude from Alberta, Canada to the the Gulf Coast of the United States, during their meeting Friday.

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Obama, Harper to discuss oil pipeline

President Obama will meet today with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the subject of the Keystone XL pipeline, still under consideration for approval by the State Department, will almost certainly be a topic of conversation.

The Keystone XL pipeline would carry highly polluting Canadian tar sands crude oil from More…

Canadian PM: No New Strategy, No New Troops

By | 03.02.09 | 4:58 pm

Brian Beutler flags an interview Fareed Zakaria conducted with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper about contributing additional troops to Afghanistan or continuing the Canadian deployment after 2011, when it’s slated to end. Harper says that if President Obama asks him to re-up or step up in Afghanistan, he’ll reply: More…