FORMER OBAMA ADVISER SAYS KEYSTONE IS DEAD

A senior adviser to two former U.S. presidents delivered a stark message Friday to Canadians hoping for the resurrection of the Keystone XL pipeline: get over it. The project is gone and not coming back, said John Podesta, White House chief of staff in the final years of Bill Clinton’s second term and a senior counsellor to Barack Obama. “I think Keystone’s dead,” Podesta, pictured, told an online panel discussion hosted by Canada 2020, a think tank with deep ties to the federal Liberal party. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office that rescinded predecessor Donald Trump’s decision to let the pipeline project cross the Canada-U.S. border. “He’s withdrawn the permit, he’s not going back. He made that commitment,” Podesta said of Biden.