Sean Craig
National Observer
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Banks aren't backing their climate message: Rainforest Action Network
They say climate change will define Canada's economy over the next decade, yet Canadian financial institutions are some of the world's biggest backers of oil and gas. → Read More
Australia's bushfires offer heated view into longstanding misinformation on climate change
Riley Dunlap finds it hard to believe. "I could have never — 25 years ago, when I started — I could just never have imagined the success of the climate change denial campaign," he said. The Oklahoma State University professor is considered one of the founders of environmental sociology, and has spent decades studying public opinion on environmental issues and the politics of climate change. But… → Read More
Why a Toronto teen called Doug Ford a Timbit
Fourteen-year-old Robael has become a meme after an on-camera comment about Ontario's premier that came to him in the moment. → Read More
Why a Toronto teen called Doug Ford a Timbit
Fourteen-year-old Robael has become a meme after an on-camera comment about Ontario's premier that came to him in the moment. → Read More
Premiers unite behind a call for more aid to oil and gas provinces
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, who chaired this year's Council of the Federation meeting, said his fellow first ministers "have our backs, and we will have theirs." → Read More
Trudeau expands cabinet to include seven new faces, names Prairies envoy
The prime minister unveiled his new cabinet of 37 people at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Wednesday. Jonathan Wilkinson is Canada's new environment and climate change minister. → Read More
Scientists see disaster looming in world production of coal, oil and gas
A new report singles out Canada's oil and gas subsidies as threatening Paris commitments. → Read More
Layoffs hit CBC News amid operating budget decline
Citing a decrease in its operating budget, the news division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced layoffs Thursday. Approximately 35 positions were impacted, most of them in the broadcaster's Toronto newsroom, a spokesperson for CBC said. "Today, as some of you may already know, a number of CBC News staff were given notice of redundancy," wrote Jennifer McGuire, the editor-in-chief… → Read More
Wildfires, disease, food scarcity: scientists predict a grim century for Canada
The third Lancet Countdown report, an annual review of the scientific evidence of the impact climate change has on human health, was released Wednesday. → Read More
Journalist skewers Zuckerberg for disinformation committee no-show
The reporter who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal says Facebook's CEO "needs to be subpoenaed" by the international disinformation committee. → Read More
'Antiquated' privacy laws jeopardize human rights, say commissioners
Canada's federal, provincial and territorial privacy commissioners are calling on governments across the country to modernize access-to-information and privacy laws, which they say "have sadly fallen behind the laws of many other countries" in the face of rapid technological advancements. → Read More
Former NDP MP Peter Stoffer denies sex misconduct allegations
The NDP appears never to have investigated Parliament’s 'most collegial' MP over complaints about behaviour toward women → Read More
‘Multiple sexual harassment claims’ at Vice Canada: message from union staffer reveals
'I work for the CMG, which is the union that represents VICE. We are dealing with multiple sexual harassment claims in that specific workplace right now' → Read More
New report says half of Canada’s wildlife species are in decline: ‘We are going to lose ecosystems’
New research, published today by the World Wildlife Fund Canada, shows 451 species across the country have seen their population decline by an average of 83 per cent since 1970. → Read More
‘Hell freezes over’: National Post staff announce union drive at Postmedia’s flagship paper
Staff at the National Post, the flagship publication of Canada's largest newspaper company, announced Wednesday that they are beginning a union drive with CWA Canada. → Read More
A fight over a four bedroom house: The Rebel Media meltdown and the full recording at the centre of the controversy
Ezra Levant's Rebel Media found itself in hot water this week with staff leaving and politicians denouncing it. Here's the recording behind one of its most controversial disputes. → Read More
Refugee claimants found in possession of child porn at Quebec border
Multiple refugee claimants have been found in possession of child pornography at or near the Quebec border crossing, Global News has learned. → Read More
Turns out action video games really can harm your brain, says Montreal study
Those annoying gripes from your parents were true: your habitual obsession with first person shooter games could be harming your brain. → Read More
Vice Media to cut ten jobs in Canada as part of global layoffs
Millenial-focused media and news brand Vice is cutting its staff in Canada, laying off ten employees less than three years after striking an ambitious, $100 million partnership with Rogers Communications. → Read More
Government revokes group’s charity status, audit cites possible funding of Pakistani militants
Federal regulators have revoked the charity status of a Canadian Islamic organization after an audit uncovered problems including tax receipts that were issued for donations that went to a Pakistani group linked to armed militancy. → Read More