The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers sponsored Energy IQ, “an energy education resource” distributed for free online and to 13,000 classroom teachers in public schools across Canada by Canadian Geographic magazine’s educational wing.
CAPP and Canadian Geographic say that the content of these lessons is independently created by Canadian Geographic, who maintain “full editorial control.”
Documents obtained by CANADALAND seem to tell a different story.
The email in question appears to be sent from Canadian Geographic’s “custom publishing editor” Michela Rosano in July of 2013 to a summer intern, Jimmy Thomson.
CANADALAND has obtained from Paul Watson the full audio of the meeting with Editor in Chief Michael Cook and Executive Editor Paul Woods which prompted his resignation, with permission to post an excerpt. It pertains directly to The Star’s official comments on the story.
Two weeks ago Maclean’s Magazine published a column by a British Baronness in which she used the word “negro” to describe black people, whom she described collectively as a “heap,” with Barack Obama at the top and “an inert black underclass” at the bottom.
The article, titled “Class, Not Race, is America’s Real Problem” is an actual, unironic thing that ran in a mainstream Canadian newsmagazine in 2015.
But you won’t find it online. Unlike the rest of Maclean’s content and every other Barbara Amiel column, the piece was not posted online following its appearnce in the print edition.