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Canadian wildfire misinformation is mutating online, thanks to AI slop

How conspiracy theories, misinformation and AI-generated images anchored by social media engagement are playing out during ...
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Doug Ford pushes a Canadian pipeline as Michigan shuts down Enbridge’s Line 5 update

With Enbridge project on hold, Premier Doug Ford re-upped new Alberta-Ontario oil pipeline plan, while deepening ties to U.S.
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Extreme fire weather is B.C.’s ‘new reality,’ this scientist says. That doesn’t make these blazes ‘normal’

The wildfire that tipped B.C. into a state of emergency this August was described as “a bomb going off” to Premier David Eby by a fire official. Flames from Bald Range, in the interior of the province ...
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‘It’s moving so fast’: inside Ontario’s push to speed up mine approvals

In early March, dozens of digital billboards across Toronto’s Union Station repeatedly flashed four words that have become synonymous with economic survival for the Doug Ford government: “one project, ...
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Saskatchewan is on a crash course with Canada’s coal phaseout. Will the feds step in?

Federal Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin will work with Saskatchewan to “ensure” it follows the law, her office reiterated, as the province pushes to keep its coal plants open past Canada’s ...
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Toronto renters are too hot. Whose job is it to keep them cool?

Beena Ruparelia does not need to check a thermometer to know when heat has settled into her northwest Toronto home. She can see it on her skin. “You see me sweating,” she says while waving a handheld ...
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‘You can’t fool the locals’: landowners push back on fracking in central Alberta

Assar Grinde is the kind of man whose calm is infectious, even as he rattles off an encyclopedic knowledge of facts about drought, water and the impacts of fracking on the region he calls home. A ...
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We know how to protect homes from wildfires. Why don’t more people do it?

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B.C. approves massive Nisg̱a’a-led LNG project on the north coast

The B.C. government has just approved the Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, which will produce up to 12 million tonnes of LNG annually by 2028. Ksi Lisims LNG — pronounced ...
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Doug Ford is abandoning his own climate commitments

The Doug Ford government is moving to eliminate Ontario’s legal requirements for a provincial climate plan and emissions-reduction targets. Buried in the omnibus bill for the government’s annual fall ...
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Danielle Smith says separation is about alienation. It’s really about oil

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