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Days after former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney slammed prominent right-wing platform Juno News for hosting a white nationalist, it has now walked back plans to release a feature-length documentary-style film denying the atrocities of Canada's residential school system. The film, entitled DIG, was announced publicly in a Feb. 10 email sent to Juno News subscribers and was going to focus...
Pierre Poilievre raced to defend himself at a campaign event in Coquitlam, BC, last month from comments by Doug Ford’s campaign manager — who said the Conservative leader looks and sounds “too much like Trump.” “I’m the only one who can stand up to Donald Trump,” Poilievre shot back. Trump wants the Liberals back in power “so he can keep...
Health Canada is investigating after Canada's National Observer revealed that government officials supported efforts by the pesticide industry to discredit a researcher's findings and overturn a proposed ban on a class of pesticides harmful to bees, the environment and human health. During Friday's Question Period in Ottawa, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May pressed the government to respond to the Observer's...
As wildfires scorch ever-larger parts of Canada and force thousands to evacuate, they are fueling the spread of right-wing disinformation and climate conspiracy theories.
MP Charlie Angus has been "inundated" with death threats, swearing and homophobic slurs over his proposal to curb greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry. Last month, the NDP’s natural resources critic tabled a private member’s bill that would ban misleading ads by the fossil fuel industry that market the industry as a solution to climate change. The calls to Angus’s...