conspiracy theories

The petition references a conspiracy theory popular with online influencers and some conservative politicians and pundits who say the federal government is part of a global plot, led by the World Economic Forum, that uses climate measures to force people into submission – including by making them eat insects.

This isn't the first close election in BC's recent history, but it is the first that attracted the sort of conspiracy theories and fever dreams that followed Donald Trump's defeat in 2020. That's not a coincidence.

The Conservatives say they have no connection to a rash of conspicuously similar social-media posts that flooded the X platform following a Pierre Poilievre event in northern Ontario last week.

Nathaniel Veltman, 23, was found guilty in November of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for hitting the Afzaal family with his truck while they were out for a walk on June 6, 2021.

A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won't work.

A Quebec man who posted conspiracy theories online that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government has pleaded guilty to starting a series of fires himself that forced hundreds of people from their homes.

It was the hottest year on Earth in 125,000 years, and #ClimateScam is taking off.

The Earth is flat. We have been secretly contacted by intelligent beings from other planets. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did not land on the moon in 1969. They may sound like bizarre statements, but a new poll suggests a sizable number of Canadians believe in these and other conspiracy theories.

Canada's current wildfire season is devastating evidence of the effects of climate change, scientists say, but for some conspiracy theorists, the thousands of square kilometres of burnt ground isn't enough to convince them.

How a Canadian Press story became the convoy crowd’s latest conspiracy — and why, try as he might, Pierre Poilievre's CPC just can't seem to quit them.

Four new MPs are set to be elected to the House of Commons on Monday in a handful of byelections that political watchers say could expose rifts within the Conservative party and bring a new Liberal cabinet hopeful into the fold.

In some corners of Alberta, there are whispers that the military’s presence has nothing to do with the fires.

Chrystia Freeland is one of dozens of politicians across Canada who have faced threats of political violence and terrorism over the past year, and while the convoy might be gone, the threats — and conspiracies behind them — are still here.

Disinformation on federal fertilizer rules being peddled by politicians, the fossil fuel lobby and right-wing groups is “really frustrating” and “we haven't found the magic recipe yet” to address it, says Canada’s Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau.

One thing should be abundantly clear by now: Pierre Poilievre is playing to win, and he’s not to be taken lightly, writes columnist Max Fawcett.