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: So these old grade-school alumni duked it out from a distance as the pipeline escalated from a regional land dispute to international cause celebre, climate-change battle line, and irritant in Canada-U.S. relations, according to Hamilton Spectator. Bill McKibben is amused to hear pro-pipeline politicians in Canada deride opponents like him as foreign radicals. In the midst of one of the biggest environmental fights in American politics, the best-known activist on one side learned of his distant connection to the most powerful politician on the other: Stephen Harper. McKibben quipped in an interview: "I had exactly the same upbringing as Stephen Harper." The Vermont environmentalist spent his elementary-school years in Toronto, during his father posting as a business journalist. This is the story of how they became rivals. He never got to know the future prime minister, who was a year ahead at Northlea Elementary. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.