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Sep 24, 2018 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
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The Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP), a Canadian think-tank, claims it's a myth that "residential schools robbed native kids of their childhood".
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This same think tank publishes fake information climate change. They've published 23 different stories about it.
Here's one arguing that Canada wins if the earth warms, and here's another attacking the public sector.
So why bring attention to these stories? /2
Sep 23, 2018 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
Wendy Mesley questioned Maxime Bernier about his connections to the Koch brothers through the Montreal Economic Institute, which is supported by the Atlas Network.
She’s stumbled onto a big story that our team's been covering for a while north99.org/2018/02/08/dar…#cdnpoli /t
The Atlas Network, funded by the Kochs and other billionaire rightwing Republicans, are involved in Canadian political groups and supposedly non-partisan think-tanks: atlasnetwork.org/partners/globa…
According to their website, they supported the following Canadian groups as of 2016: /2
