An IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates special report on development of the Canadian oil sands.

The Canadian oil sands present an important challenge to policymakers: they promise energy security benefits but present climate change problems. Michael A. Levi assesses the energy security and climate change effects of the oil sands and makes recommendations for U.S. policymakers within the context of broader bilateral relations with Canada.

Once considered too expensive, as well as too damaging to the land, exploitation of Alberta's oil sands is now a gamble worth billions, says Robert Kunzig.

Edward Alden writes that the quest for perfectly secure borders premised on plugging vulnerabilities poses special, and possibly insurmountable, problems. The United States needs some way to distinguish serious threats from minor ones, and to calculate the costs of trying to counter those threats.

Max Boot discusses David Hackett Fischer's latest work, Champlain's Dream.

A CFR confrence call on climate change and the upcoming G-8 Summit.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain gave this speech to the Economic Club of Toronto in Ottawa, Canada on June 20, 2008.

U.S. legislation proposing environmental-impact tariffs on imports could violate free trade accords and embroil Washington and its trading partners in serious disputes.

Warren Buffett’s divestment from PetroChina prompted victory cries from Darfur activists, but longer-term concerns seem a more likely explanation for the sale.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper discusses the security, economic, and environmental concerns of North America.

Shortages of skilled labor in Canada’s oil sector are causing wages to rise and could cause global ripples in the industry.

A summit of like-minded North American leaders in Quebec addressed trade, immigration, and security issues.

Casualties among Canadian forces in Afghanistan are up, resulting in growing anti-war attitudes north of the border.

In this report by the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, advice is given for long term reductions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants in Canada.

In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on climate change to assess the scientific, technical, and socio-economic information relevant for understanding the risk of human-induced climate change. The IPCC was created by the United Nations in 1988, and is widely seen as the leading body of scientific experts in the field of climate change research.

Canada has a comparatively open immigration policy designed to attract a group of diverse, educated professionals. But recent arrests linked to a terror cell have raised questions about integration of Muslims and lax policy.

The arrest of seventeen people in Canada who allegedly comprise an Islamic terrorist cell raises new questions about homegrown extremism in North America. While Canadians wrestle with their own vulnerability, the arrests prompted U.S. officials to reexamine security on their oft-ignored northern border.