it's the second-largest country by total area and the northernmost country of the North America continent, journalist for Medicine Hat News, Peggy Revell reports from Canada, pop. 35,675,834 (est. 2014)... a framework for climate change is being established at the political level; the debate over building an "energy east" pipeline; a move towards allowing physician-assisted death; and the 25,000th Syrian refugee has arrived...