Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

2 weeks ago | nationalobserver.com | Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Themes of austerity, hypernationalism and resource development come up again and again in talks given at their conferences and online materials - and can be found in Poilievre's policy book too. In February, Canada's National Observer and DeSmog attended the conference in London, where about 4,000 elite conservatives gathered. Trump policies - from Elon Musk-style institutional destruction to attacks on climate action - were celebrated at the conference.

3 weeks ago | nationalobserver.com | Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Fear and anxiety is settling over Canadian universities as the Trump administration attacks research into everything from climate change to pandemics - and as US funding dries up, scholars worry the effect could redouble if the same thing happened here. Many Canadian researchers rely on the US to fund their work, largely by participating in international projects or collaborating with American colleagues who receive the US funds.

1 month ago | desmog.com | Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

It’s easy to dismiss Jordan Peterson, the Canadian bad boy ex-academic, as a sideshow. But when he’s standing six feet away, scowling before an audience of thousands of powerful conservatives from around the world, it clicks: Peterson’s influence has gotten too big to ignore, and his message is a danger to all of us.

1 month ago | ecotopical.com | Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

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2 months ago | nationalobserver.com | Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

For over a year, Manitoba farmers Craig and Zoë Bailey have been rotating between the bits of pasture where they let their sheep graze, in an effort to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Unlike traditional shepherding methods that allow herds to roam through vast pastures at will, the couple put up wooden fences to fragment their field into 10 smaller pens and move the animals between them about once a week.