Chapter 8 Questions
+ Voices from the Story and Referenced Resources
Think about it
- Why is it important to be thoughtful communicators?
- What is polarization? Why do we need to move beyond it?
- Do you consume your news from diverse sources? How can you improve?
- What will you do to improve the quality of your conversations?
- Why is consultation important?
- Why do you need to make sure your voice is heard? How do you do that respectfully?
Reflection Activity
- Option One: Write a self-reflection on the stories you just watched. How can you be a better, more thoughtful communicator and storyteller?
- Option Two: Design a poster to promote your final project, reflecting the lessons you learned from this story.
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Referenced Resources
- Fighting the Foreign Funded Special Interests
- Foreign-funded radicals
- Everything you need to know about the tar sands and how they impact you
- Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People
- What are tar sands?
- No Tar Sands
- The Dirty Fight Over Canadian Tar Sands Oil
- Tar Sands
- Tough lessons for tar sands in reporting climate risks
- Justin Trudeau’s climate plans are stuck in Alberta’s tar sands
- Myth: Tar Sands versus Oil Sands: What’s in a name?
- Tar sands
- Oil sands history: “tar sands” term coined long before it was adopted by critics
- The power of political dog whistles
- Dog Whistle Politics
- Offensive political dog whistles: you know them when you hear them. Or do you?
- We Love You, Alberta—Just Not Your Tar Sands
- 'Dog-whistle' politics accusations fly between Canadian parties
- The racist roots of the dog whistle
- Canadian environmental groups got $1.3 billion in foreign funding: inquiry
- Convenient Conspiracy: How Vivian Krause Became the Poster Child for Canada’s Anti-Environment Crusade
- Dr. Will Greaves
- Environmentalists decry minister’s ‘foreign’ and ‘radical’ charges
- Ottawa's new anti-terrorism strategy lists eco-extremists as threats
- Researcher behind ‘anti-Alberta’ inquiry says she has not backed off allegation
- Vivian Krause wants U.S. money out of anti-resource activism in Canada
- Debunked: Vivian Krause’s Tar Sands Campaign conspiracy narrative
- Researcher wants greens to come clean on funding
- Vivian Krause hopes to expose American efforts to landlock Canadian oil
- The Billionaire Plot to Destroy Alberta’s Economy is Totally Real!
- This B.C. researcher’s oilsands theories are being championed by Jason Kenney. Just one problem — experts say they’re not true
- Researcher behind ‘anti-Alberta’ inquiry says she has not backed off allegation
- Yet more proof foreign radicals (yes, radicals) are sabotaging Canada’s economy
- The foreign funded eco-terrorists have disrupted our world class energy industry many times. Funding is proven. Disruption is evident.
- “Environmental Activists” Funded by Non-Canadian Sources Should Concern Us All
- Canada's environmental activists seen as 'threat to national security'
- Politics and disengagement: Two-in-five say there’s “no room” for compromise in Canada; most say their interests are ignored
- Polarized Canada needs to find common ground
- Searching for common ground: teaming up to address Canada’s economic future
- Uncovering Common Ground
- Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance
- Canada’s 50 Most Powerful Business People 2014: #21–30
- Beyond Polarity
- Demonizing the oil and gas sector is counter-productive
- Manipulation in Marketing: How It's Used, and How to Use It Ethically
- Manipulation in Marketing, Advertising, Propaganda, and Public Relations
- Advertising Makes Us Unhappy
- The More You Hate Negative Campaign Ads, The More They Work
- Negative political ads and their effect on voters: Updated collection of research
- The dirty secret about negative campaign ads — they work
- 10 Very Effective Negative Political Ads
- Negative ads may have spurred voter engagement
- Negative Ads In Politics: A Necessary Evil?
- Turning negative into positive: public health mass media campaigns and negative advertising
- Under pressure: campaigns that persuaded companies to change the world
- Pipeline ruling puts Alberta, Quebec on a collision course
- Canadians becoming more divided over COVID-19 and politics, survey says
- How COVID-19 Inflamed Canadian Regional Divides
- Being "Right" vs Seeking Truth: Why you can't do both
- Clive Jackson, ‘conductor’ of the News Hour for decades, retires
- Longtime Global BC assignment editor Clive Jackson awarded lifetime achievement award
- Environmental Coverage in the Mainstream News: We Need More
- As extinctions loom, biodiversity warnings fail to resonate with governments, media
- Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’ Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’
- As biodiversity declines, so does public attention
- Nature Has Lost Its Meaning
- First Nations 'ecstatic' over historic Supreme Court ruling
- Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia: Supreme Court Judgments
- Tsilhqot'in land ruling was a game changer for B.C.
- 25 years after the Delgamuukw case, the fight for land is more contentious than ever
- Delgamuukw v. British Columbia: Supreme Court Judgement
- R. v. Sparrow: Supreme Court Judgement
- Canada: Impacts Of Tsilhqot’in Part I: A Layperson’s Guide To Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia
- Conversations That Matter: Categories
- 'No news is bad news': Canadian media is collapsing, says journalist and author
- How and why do consumers access news on social media?
- 48% of Canadians consume online news several times daily
- Social media influences the mainstream media
- Forces at the Gate: Social Media’s Influence on Editorial and Production Decisions in Local Television Newsrooms
- Niki Wilson
- Ethics Guidelines: The Canadian Association of Journalists
- Power to the People: The rise and rise of Citizen Journalism
- Participatory Journalism: What do you think that means?
- How the internet turned from a tool for democracy to a threat against it
- Citizen Journalism is a Catastrophe, It'll Only Get Worse
- Why click-bait will be the death of journalism
- How tech platforms fuel U.S. political polarization and what government can do about it
- It's Hard to Escape Facebook's Vortex of Polarization
- How Social Media Really Makes Political Polarization Worse
- How to think about polarization on Facebook
- The anatomy of social media's mad-making machine
- 40% of Canadians have a negative view of Facebook, say it amplifies hate: poll
- Reports Show that Facebook Usage is Up, as Meta Continues to Develop its AI Targeting Models
- In a world of likes, follows and subscriptions…
- The Slaughter the World Ignored. The Rwandan Genocide of 1994
- As genocide raged, general's pleas for help ignored
- How Smartphones Are Killing Conversation
- Cyberbullying Remains Rampant On Social Media
- Twitter says it out loud: Removing anonymity will not stop online abuse
- You Anon
- Evolution explains why we act differently online
- The power of groupthink: Study shows why ideas spread in social networks
- Why Social Media Is Like High School
- Science explains why we’re so much more bold online, especially now
- Conversations Live
- Conversations That Matter
- Asking Questions Is Really Hard
- Courage as a Skill
- Working together on the land: NCC
- Backgrounder: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
- We recognize the profound relationships that Indigenous people have with the land on which we operate.: Pembina
- Government of Canada and the duty to consult
- Duty to Consult: Centre for Constitutional Studies
- Ian Waddell’s front row seat
- Opinion: The real story of the patriation of Canada's constitution
- How Pierre Trudeau Relented on Indigenous Rights
- This Is Not the End of the Story: The lasting promise of section 35
- Province divided on need for bear hunt ban
- Meaningful Consultation: Happy Days or Project Delays
- Canadian Climate Institute: Shianne McKay
- Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
- Meet Aboriginal Skills Navigator Brock Endean: Helping First Nations get job ready
- Province divided on need for bear hunt ban
- Indigenuity
- Indigenous Women Outdoors
- This Woman Is On a Mission to Get Indigenous Women Into the Mountains
- Solo Productions: Mary Young Leckie
- The magic of Maudie
- Prom Queen: The Musical inspiration attends official launch in London
- This is why it's dangerous to bottle up your emotions
- Even noxious ideas need airing—censorship only makes them stronger
- Why It's More Difficult Than Ever to Have a Civil Conversation About Politics
- It's tough to talk politics these days, but it helps to start by listening
- Beyond Polarity
- Are some political ideas simply too dangerous to express? An analysis of the constitutionality of the Canada Election Act’s restrictions on political speech
- No, you’re not entitled to your opinion
- A Field Guide to Online Political Conversations
- The Globe and Mail: Ian Brown
- Lost husky reunites with family after strangers’ incredible efforts to bring her home
- The Big Burn
- Grizzlies at the Table
- Media Habits Are Changing Rapidly For Young Adults, Making Ad Targeting More Challenging
- How HuffPost Canada’s digital impact and untimely demise changed Canadian news media
- Canadian Media Usage Trends Show How Media Habits Are New (Again)
- Should we set aside half for nature?
- Should We Set Aside Half For Nature?
- 'On the Land' and down the Mackenzie
- Everybody Needs a Rock