How the UAE Financed a Plan to Smear American Muslims

Leaked documents show how an Emirati defamation campaign extended into the United States, creating a blacklist that includes mainstream Muslim groups and dozens of American citizens.

open.substack.com

Proposed Alberta Data Centre Backed by U.S.-based MAGA Donor

Black & Veatch, the company behind Goldfinch Technology Park, donates to Republican politicians through its political action committee.

desmog.com

How the Oil Industry Is Pushing EPA to 'Effectively Gut' Methane Rules During Affordability and Climate Crises

As House Republicans crafted President Trump’s domestic policy bill last spring, the oil and gas industry watched closely, eyes trained on the fate of one policy in particular: a fee on excess methane...

desmog.com

Saskatchewan communities on the brink: examining the province’s cost of living crisis

A lack of affordable housing options combined with a low minimum wage means more people are facing housing insecurity and Saskatchewan doesn’t have the social infrastructure to catch them.

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Beneath the cloud, the land | CCPA

First Nations digital sovereignty is about more than just technical infrastructure

policyalternatives.ca

Ignore all previous instructions | CCPA

Notes on how civil society is organizing against the AI industry

policyalternatives.ca

Resisting the data centre invasion | CCPA

Data centre developers and governments are trying to make an end-run around the public, but the public is fighting back

policyalternatives.ca

A generation of non-thinkers | CCPA

If personal AI tutors seem too good to be true, that’s because they are

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Hewers of code, drawers of data | CCPA

Canada in the precarious middle of the global AI supply chain

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Making a killing | CCPA

While we debate chatbots and productivity, the deepest AI implementation is happening in the military-industrial complex

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All in at the AI casino | CCPA

The federal government is betting everything on an AI future that may never exist

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Say hi to propaganda campaign aimed at promoting militarism - Yves Engler

The media’s close ties to the military have long undermined democracy. Mark Carney’s extreme militarization of the economy is exacerbating the problem. Last week Canada’s ‘paper of record’ published a...

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Accelerating clean energy, electrification serves Canadians’ interests; an expensive taxpayer-funded oil pipeline does not | Pembina Institute

CALGARY — Janetta McKenzie, director of the oil and gas program at the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the announcement of the Pacific Link pipeline as a project of nati...

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Dual Practice, Double Cross

Danielle Smith’s betrayal of Medicare and what it means to be Canadian

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Prevent Harm and Pollution: Demand Federal Action on Toxic Tailings

Sign on to ask the federal government to prevent further tailings pollution and harms by using all the regulatory tools it has, including the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

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Tell Your MP: Don't Fund the West Coast Pipeline in Budget 2026

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AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, research firm says | CBC News

AI agents tried to hack into a Library and Archives Canada website, according to a report by artificial intelligence research firm Transluce.

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Overnight, Meta deleted all her accounts. AI customer service won’t let her reach a human | CBC News

Toronto resident Jasmine Ault says Meta disabled her accounts overnight, without giving her a reason, and that she's been unable to get past their AI chatbots to speak to a human to resolve the error....

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AI Was Supposed to Cut Emissions. Instead, Fossil Fuel Companies Are Using It to Find More Oil and Gas.

A new study found AI-driven fossil fuel productivity could increase emissions. Here are examples of companies already using AI to boost production.

desmog.com

Nepal's disaster has laid bare the world's adaptation accountability gap

Knowledge about accelerating climate risks and how to adapt to them has grown over the past two decades - but it hasn't been put into practice fast enough to protect communities

climatechangenews.com

Canada’s AI governance has a built-in conflict of interest

The federal government's AI consultation sidelined the perspectives of working people, students, artists, parents and anyone encountering the technology in their daily lives.

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LNG Canada export expansion project gets green light amid economic and climate warnings

The $33-billion project to double processing capacity at the Shell-led BC terminal would generate economic development and thousands of construction jobs. But analysts and sustainability campaigners w...

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Canada promised a new citizenship guide that better addresses reconciliation a decade ago. It still hasn’t arrived

Ottawa has left the outdated 2009 Discover Canada booklet in place, pushing the work of teaching reconciliation to newcomers onto underfunded community educators.

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NATIONAL POST CROSSES LINE ON THREAT AGAINST LEWIS

A recent editorial on New Democratic Party leader Avi Lewis crossed the line into an extremist hate threat. It needs to be called out.

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For 6,000 years humanity controlled water. Climate change is changing the equation | Countercurrents

The defining signature of the past 6,000 years of human civilization is the domestication of the hydrosphere—capturing, damming, canalizing, reorienting, propertizing, privatizing, consuming…

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Israel turns Gaza into largest ghetto in modern history, killing residents one after another as three-year genocide continues | Countercurrents

Geneva – Israel has transformed the Gaza Strip from the world’s largest ‘open-air prison’ into the largest ‘ghetto’ in history, with more than two million Palestinians isolated under the weight of an…

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The Greater Isolation of Lesser Israel | Countercurrents

When Benjamin Netanyahu rose to address the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, the rows of empty seats spoke before he did. Diplomats walked out, while others stayed away from the outset...

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Did prominent Zionist really call for NDP leader’s death? - Yves Engler

The assassination threat must be condemned. But we also need Avi Lewis to stand up to the genocidal Jewish supremacist bullies. In “Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis” Yoni Goldstein effec...

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Canada Took First Nations Children Away. Now Communities Are Bringing Them Home | The Walrus

The harder challenge will be building services that can help keep the families together

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