A network of retired academics and think tanks is chipping away at established truths.
[Editor’s note: This article contains discussion of residential school denialism and abuse at residential schools.]
One morning last November, Shay Paul opened Facebook from her home in Kamloops, B.C., and was shocked to find her online community pages transformed.
Every group she was part of — from a page for Kamloops community updates to one for local thrifters — was awash in what she called residential school denialism.
The Santa Marta Conference – Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels – An energetic multi-nation well-organized effort to get off fossil fuels with the underlying motto: “Make Science Great Again”
This article discusses this exciting new approach to hopefully mitigate climate change as well a discussion of the steep difficulty of overcoming the “monumental challenge” already extant.
Donald Trump has signed an agreement to get the massive Keystone XL pipeline into production. At the same time, Prime Minister Carney is pushing another pipeline to the Pacific. This, as Canadians are still subsidizing the bitumen in the TMX pipeline to the tune of about 50 cents on the dollar.
Meanwhile, The Guardian published an article this week about the latest findings on the state of the Atlantic Gulf Stream.
The leader of the BC Prosperity Project says Curtis Stone’s views don’t reflect those of the wider group.
One of the moderators of a popular Facebook page that promotes B.C. separating from Canada has been open about his white nationalist and antisemitic beliefs, and his interest in Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders.
In February 2025, Curtis Stone appeared in a Rumble video called “Uncle Ted’s Disciples w/Curtis Stone,” which features Stone talking with Derek Harrison, a member of the extreme-right Canadian group Diagolon.
Has climate policy-making gone right off the rails? That question pops into my head with increasing frequency these days, most recently when I glanced at a Guardian headline: ‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3°C of global heating.
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