Meet the groups spending the most on social media ads attacking the carbon tax

The Investigative Journalism Foundation

Despite its claims of being grassroots, Energy United has links to the largest fossil fuel industry advocacy group in the country. It's spending big on social media ads denouncing federal carbon pricing. Story here.

Drugs, hormones and excrement: the polluting pig mega-farms supplying pork to the world

THE GUARDIAN

The stink of excrement was the first thing the residents of Sitilpech noticed when the farm opened in 2017. It hung over the colourful one-storey homes and kitchen gardens in the Maya town in Yucatán, and has never left. Next, the trees stopped bearing fruit, their leaves instead covered with black spots. Then, the water from the vast, porous aquifer emerged from the well with a horrible, overwhelming stench. Story here.

Pierre Poilievre regularly met with directors of oil industry association he deemed a ‘money-sucking lobby group’

The Investigative Journalism Foundation                                                                    Poilievre has met with such groups at multiple fundraising events in the past two years. Story here.

Canadian activist Tzeporah Berman named among TIME's top climate leaders

CANADA’S NATIONAL OBSERVER

One of Canada’s most prominent environmental crusaders is being named among TIME’s Top 100 most influential climate leaders worldwide. Story here.  

Mazier’s fact-free attacks miss mark

THE BRANDON SUN 

 It’s the role of opposition members of Parliament to oppose the actions of the 

government, ask questions about issues and suggest solutions. Story here.

ANOTHER TESTAMENT TO THE IGNORANCE OF OUR LEADERS

 

THE COMMANDER-IN-THIEF RETURNS

How sad it must be - believing that scientists, scholars, historians, 

economists and journalists have devoted their entire lives to 

deceiving you - while a lying, racist, misogynistic, perverted 

traitor is your only beacon of truth and honesty. 

(Neil deGrasse Tyson, paraphrased.)