Thread by @Lidsville

Tl;dr - Compared to US news outlets, Canadian corporate media ignored the IPCC's "Code Red" warning on runaway climate change. Why? A good analysis by @seanmholman in @TheTyee #bcpoli #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/… #fracking #LNG #SiteC

@seanmholman @TheTyee .."many of [Canada's] biggest newspapers seem to care less about global warming than their counterparts in the United States, on the eve of an election that will determine the country’s future action on #climatechange." @seanmholman on media and #cdnpoli #IPCC

@seanmholman @TheTyee .."At the 10 largest circulation newspapers in the United States... eight ...devoted between four and 30 per cent of their front pages to the IPCC #ClimateChange report. But a much different approach was taken north of the border."

@seanmholman @TheTyee 'Against the backdrop of out-of-control wildfires & a deadly heat wave attributed to climate change the IPCC report got about half as much front-page space at 10 largest newspapers in Canada

Among those were 2 that didn’t front that story: Vancouver’s @theprovince & Toronto Sun

@seanmholman @TheTyee @theprovince ..'Both @theprovince and @TheTorontoSun belong to the Postmedia Network, which has a history of publishing climate science rejectionists and promoting the country’s large fossil fuel industry.' #cdnpoli #cdnmedia #bcpoli #topoli #ClimateChange

@seanmholman @TheTyee @theprovince @TheTorontoSun The only paper that gave the "Code Red" IPCC warning anything close to the coverage it deserved was @TorontoStar.

@seanmholman @TheTyee @theprovince @TheTorontoSun @TorontoStar 'But Postmedia newspapers didn’t seem as worried about the IPCC warning. They included @calgaryherald, @edmontonjournal, @VancouverSun, & the flagship @nationalpost, which was found to have the “least accurate” climate change coverage in the Environmental Research Letters study'