CALGARY—The federal Opposition leader is likening the stalled Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to a famous Monty Python sketch in which two men argue over whether a parrot is actually dead.

In the Monty Python sketch, a Mr. Praline has bought a dead parrot nailed to its perch. The store owner denies the bird is dead, saying the purchaser stunned it by shaking the cage. “Yeah!

Kenneth Colley, the British actor who played Admiral Piett in the original Star Wars series and Jesus in Monty Python ’s Life of Brian, died June 30 at his home in Kent, England, after ...