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A dual American citizen, a man from Arizona, and an Ontario law professor walk into a bar — well, actually, a casino conference room in Red Deer. It sounds like the setup to a bad joke, but the punchline is this: they came to stage a separatist intervention in Alberta. The headliner to the event […]

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Zia Yusuf has withdrawn from frontline politics almost as soon as he entered it. Over the past year, Reform’s former chair emerged from obscurity to become the right-hand-man of Nigel Farage – the odds-on favourite to be the next prime minister. Yesterday, he announced his shock resignation following a series of public spats with the […]

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Bjorn Lomborg has for years promoted the idea that fossil fuels are crucial for humankind through syndicated newspaper columns, best-selling books and appearances on TV shows including HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. He’s been called a “friend” by Trump administration energy secretary and former fracking executive Chris Wright and helps advise an anti-net zero organization […]

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Polina Zabrodskaya was well on her way to the top of the creative advertising game. But when she challenged her senior management on whether a major client’s environmental and labour-related claims were true, she says her career path quickly crumbled. Now, Zabrodskaya is taking her former employer, AMV BBDO, to an employment tribunal. She charges that […]

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Food firms are inflating their climate targets with carbon removals and weak deforestation claims, according to a report from the NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch. With the COP30 climate summit in Brazil later this year widely expected to focus on agriculture, the report has raised concerns about high levels of corporate greenwashing and a lack […]

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In the local elections on 1 May, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK took control of 10 councils and two regional mayoralties. The party vowed to scrap climate initiatives in the authorities, and has reportedly already set up an Elon Musk-inspired “DOGE” (Department of Government Efficiency) at Kent County Council in order to identify potential cuts to […]

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Elon Musk’s time in the federal government is entering a new phase, the White House has confirmed. But the work he began at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the hastily renamed agency he’s used to make legally questionable changes within the federal government, will clearly continue. “DOGE is a way of life. Like Buddhism,” he […]

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