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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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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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‘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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5 things to know about B.C.’s lucrative salvage logging industry

This story is part of In the Line of Fire, a series from The Narwhal digging into what is being done to prepare for — and survive — wildfires. A relatively new industry is taking off in British ...
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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

Add content to the Apple News only block. You can add things like headings, paragraphs, images, galleries and audio clips. The content added here will not be visable on the website article Get the ...
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Leaked TC Energy recording prompts B.C. to probe claims of outsized lobbying influence on government

B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma has asked a provincial watchdog to look into a series of bold claims about how an executive at a Canadian oil and gas giant — and former BC NDP political staffer — ...
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5 projects you need to know about as B.C.’s oil and gas sector heats up

Last year was the hottest in recorded history and British Columbia’s worst-ever wildfire season, with so-called “zombie fires” still smouldering this winter. Much of the province remains in extreme ...