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'Being Canadian' filmmaker Rob Cohen passes AP's Canuck test

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In “Being Canadian,” Los Angeles-based comedy writer and director Rob Cohen seeks to dispel, or at least poke fun at, some of the canards about being a Canuck. A native of Calgary, Cohen takes a cross-country road trip, tackles the assumption that all Canadians are “nice,” examines their perennial inferiority complex toward the U.S., and unravels why for much of its history, the Canadian Football League

The Upside of Falling Energy Prices

The markets are heaving over fears of a China-fueled global slowdown, but for consumers there’s good news here: They will be paying less as a percentage of disposable income for their energy than they did in 1960. This year, American households are expected to pay an estimated $700 less on average for energy expenditures than in 2014—a windfall that is expected to last through 2016, according to economists at the