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Canada’s worsening oil curse

Power is shifting from the center to the oil-happy west, a Conservative stronghold. The country’s delicate unity hangs in the balance.

Demonstrators participate in a "die-in" covered in oil as they protest against the Keystone Pipeline and the Alberta Tar Sands in Chicago, Illinois, May 17, ahead of the NATO summit.

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