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The Story: When did human beings first set foot in the western hemisphere, and how did they arrive? For decades there has been a rough...

Given that Saskatchewan was the first place in North America with a social democratic government, it’s not as if we are strangers to overheated rhetoric. But there are rules and one of the more important rules here (and most everywhere in the country) is that you confine your politics to your own jurisdiction. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe crossed that line this week in a tweet directed at Alberta voters urging them to unite behind one conservative party to defeat NDP Premier Rachel Notley. “Dear Albertans, Prior to the formation of @SaskParty 20 years ago, our province was the example of what dividing the free enterprise movement will do: electing NDP governments, over and over again. Moe is supposed to be the premier for everyone in Saskatchewan. You weren’t elected by anyone in Alberta. You don’t represent “the free enterprise movement.” Nowhere in your job description does it state that it’s your role to prevent “electing NDP governments.” Your job is not to hurry Rachel Notley along to her political demise, which seems an inevitability, anyway. It’s bad the next time Saskatchewan has to go to a western premiers’ conference to talk about the New West Partnership or to talk about stocking Saskatchewan beer in Alberta or even barring Alberta licence plates at Saskatchewan work sites. Party government’s need to pick a fight with Alberta over something.) It’s really bad because it represents a mindset of partisanship taking precedent over what’s good for the province.

U.S. factories that move jobs south of the border. Yet the pact would also give pharmaceutical companies 10 years' protection from cheaper competition in a category of ultra-expensive drugs called biologics, which are made from living cells. The objections of DeLauro and other Democrats suddenly carry greater potency. The need to curb high drug prices has become a rallying cry for voters of all political stripes. Like Trump, many Democrats blamed NAFTA for encouraging U.S. factories to capitalize on lower-wage Mexican labor and then to ship goods back into the U.S., duty-free. North American free trade deal. So the new pact wouldn't change the status quo in the United States, though it would force Mexico to expand biologics' monopoly from five years and Canada from eight years. In fact, supporters of the biologics monopoly argue that the pact might cut prices in the United States because drug companies would no longer face pressure to charge Americans more to compensate for lower prices in Canada and Mexico. For Democrats, higher drug prices are shaping up as a powerful political argument against approving the president's new North American trade deal. They're the kinds of voters Democrats hope to attract in 2020.

Breakaway group of caravan migrants from Central America reaches U.S. border at Tijuana, Mexico; reaction and analysis from 'The Five.' FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and…

Architecture can save the world, or so sayeth the members of a panel discussion hosted by the design firm Henning Larsen recently. Notions veered from public-private partnerships to the fringes of socialism as panelists discussed the need for architects to be given greater control over their projects and even seats of political power. “What seems to be missing most, from my perspective, is architecture being well represented in government,” said Federico Negro, head of design at WeWork. “Most of our politicians are either coming from legal backgrounds or managing backgrounds or other types of backgrounds that don’t necessarily have the connection nor the expertise in understanding how cities function or how they should function. “We keep waiting for someone to magically invent a vision for our cities that’s going to be in line with what we all think is right, and that’s not going to come from those places,” he added. “It just won’t.” Moderator Paul Goldberger, an architecture critic and contributing editor at Vanity Fair, concurred, pointing out that the last president with an architecture background was Thomas Jefferson, who designed his own home at Monticello. During the event, which was attended by Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark and Anders Samuelsen, the country’s foreign minister, the main thrust of the conversation was that cities — especially conduits for global capital, such as New York — are developing in ways that are increasingly inequitable and therefore less sustainable. However, he argues that technology and planning could be used to build more responsibly. “In Denmark, people are building buildings, in New York, people are building spreadsheets,” he said. “In Scandinavia,” he said, “We have a long tradition of debating dialogue that makes people have to somehow be part of the greater good.”

Toronto Star reports President Trump told reporters off-the-record that he didn't plan to compromise with Canada; Edward Lawrence reports from Washington on the fallout. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as…

The United States, Mexico and Canada won the combined bid to host soccer’s 2026 World Cup, beating out its only challenger, Morocco, by a vote of 134-65. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering…

SINGAPORE (The Borowitz Report)—One day before his summit with Donald J. Trump, the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, has offered to host peace talks between the United States and Canada. Speaking to reporters at his hotel in Singapore, Kim said that the rising tensions between the North American neighbors were posing an “intolerable threat to world peace.” In addition to offering to host U.S.-Canada talks in Pyongyang, Kim urged the immediate creation of a demilitarized zone along the border separating the two hostile nations. “In exchange for Canadian Mounties agreeing to stand down on their side of the border, the United States, in turn, would dismantle its nuclear weapons,” Kim said. Although stating that “North Korea stands ready and willing to be an honest broker” in peace talks between the two countries, he urged Trump to dial back the “inflammatory rhetoric” that he aimed at Canadians over the weekend. “Violent language and threats have no place in international diplomacy,” Kim said.