Liberal-democratic institutions have suffered a near-fatal blow in the United States; Europe, caught leaderless as the United States vacates this position, is in disarray.
Three words have come to define this moment: I can't breathe.
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Vancouver physician and university professor Tim Takaro is staging a treetop sit-in to protest the expansion of Canada's Trans Mountain Pipeline, which carries oil from the country's Alberta province to the coast in British Columbia. The government-backed expansion project calls for trees along New Westminster's Burnett River, where Takaro is stationed 82 feet from the ground, to be cut down before mid-September.
