Andrew Burtch, acting chief historian and research director at the Canadian War Museum, said the theory about Canadian soldiers inspiring the Geneva Conventions is “utter nonsense.”

https://medicinehatnews.com/news/national-news/2026/03/20/fact-file-claim-canadian-soldiers-brutal-actions-inspired-geneva-conventions-a-myth/

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"Meta announced Tuesday that it is abandoning its third party fact-checking programs on Facebook, Instagram and Threads and replacing its army of paid moderators with a Community Notes model that mimics X’s much-maligned volunteer program, which allows users to publicly flag content they believe to be incorrect or misleading.

In a blog post announcing the news, Meta’s newly-appointed chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan said the decision was taken to allow more topics to be openly discussed on the company’s platforms. The change will first impact the company’s moderation in the US.

“We will allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations,” Kaplan said, though he did not detail what topics these new rules would cover."

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ditches-fact-checkers-in-favor-of-x-style-community-notes/

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EDMONTON — New documents outline a massive increase in public funding for the Canadian Energy Centre's campaign to change attitudes toward Alberta's oil and gas.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/alberta-s-war-room-is-back-with-massive-ad-spend-revealed-in-annual-report/ar-AA1gjuVz?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=6942d3bd75f741e0ded44b2a90ca13d6&ei=13