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The Takeover

Canada's National Observer

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Powerful voices are rewriting climate reality—and getting away with it. At a conference in London, politicians, influencers and billionaires call Net Zero "a sinister goal," renewables "impossible," and climate action a "scam". They weren’t whispering in backrooms, they were building alliances across the West and beyond to kill global climate commitments and reshape public opinion. The Takeover pulls back the curtain on a rising movement that's weaponizing language, spreading misinformation, ...
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Mortal Giants

Canada's National Observer

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After almost a century of post-war prosperity and unrivaled American power, we've entered a new era, growing uncertainty and realignment as many of the world's nations now seek to challenge that dominance. And the race for American dominance in the development of artificial intelligence by just a tiny handful of tech billionaires has seemed to put us all on yet an even more perilous path. If the world is changing at a dizzying pace, the forces driving that change are markedly different than t ...
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The signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015 was a breakthrough in the fight against the climate crisis. Almost every country in the world signed on to the treaty and agreed to keep or reduce emissions to under 2 degrees Celsius, or better yet, 1.5 degrees Celsius. When environmental activist Tzeporah Berman read the agreement – a bit nerdy but someo…
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Today, we’re sharing something a little different on our feed. It’s part of an episode swap we’re doing with CANADALAND, and we think their episode When Politics Ruins Friendships fits right into what we explore here on The Takeover. You’ve heard us talk about how powerful voices are weaponizing language and misinformation to shape the climate conv…
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We take our exploration of right-wing politics to Ottawa, where the Canada Strong and Free Network conference brings together key players in the Conservative movement. Our goal: to compare this event with the ARC conference in London, U.K., and see how each reflects the state of right-wing thought today. With a federal election underway, I wasn’t s…
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Donald Trump made it clear during the presidential campaign that his administration planned a Drill, Baby Drill approach to energy. He said he would reduce regulations and cancel policies to fight climate change put in place by the Biden administration. It was only a week after he was elected that President Trump announced he wanted fracking execut…
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On Day two of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London, U.K. in February of 2025, a speaker broke the rules and criticized President Trump and Ellon Musk. The conference hosted by Canadian Jordan Peterson and a British Baroness was a gathering of right-wing power brokers brainstorming about how to take control of western democr…
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Jordan Peterson is a co-founder of The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship – ARC. Episode two of The Takeover examines his career from a psychology professor at the University of Toronto to wildly successful author and guru for dissatisfied young men and now leader of a global movement to create a right-wing world. This movement is called ARC - th…
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Canada’s National Observer teamed up with DeSmog, an online investigative that describes itself as an antidote to science denial and misinformation, on The Takeover project. We went to the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London, a right-wing networking event organized by former U of T professor Jordan Peterson. We observed how sp…
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Sandy Garossino and Vina Nadjibulla discuss the new world order that is being imposed on the world by the United States. There can be little doubt now that the curtain is falling on the post-World War II American-led rules-based order. The international trade, military and government agreements that have secured an unprecedented era of growth and p…
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On this week’s Mortal Giants Sandy Garossino and Vina Nadjibulla discuss the deteriorating relationship between Canada and India which became pubic after Prime Minister Trudeau in September 2023 accused India of involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh leader in B.C. The Indian government called the accusation ‘absurd’. Then both governments e…
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On this week’s Mortal Giants Sandy Garossino and Vina Nadjibulla discuss the deteriorating relationship between Canada and India which became pubic after Prime Minister Trudeau in September 2023 accused India of involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh leader in B.C. The Indian government called the accusation ‘absurd’. Then both governments e…
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Sandy Garossino and Vina Nadjibulla are having conversations about the fragility of power in the 21st century. And that became even truer after the U.S. election that will return Donald Trump to the presidency in January 2025. Episode six is aptly titled, Trump and the Post-American World. Sandy and Vina talk about which world powers will lose and …
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The world is grappling with how best and how fast to fight climate change. China stands out for its enormous investments in renewable energy – at home and around the world. In 2022 China spent over half a trillion dollars on the energy transition – about half the global total. Yet China continues to expand its coal operations and its emissions are …
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This episode looks at the how the Communist Party of China has changed over the past century and how today’s party is very much the party of its President, Xi Jinping. From a period where its remarkable growth was an economic miracle for the country, and there seemed to be more freedom for its citizens, to the beginning of the 2000s when the party …
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The island of Taiwan and its strait the Taiwan Strait are the gateway to the South China Sea which stretches from Taiwan to Malaysia. One third of the world’s shipping traffic sail through these waters every year. And because of this Taiwan is one of the most dangerous flashpoints in global politics today. China believes Taiwan is part of China and…
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In this episode of Mortal Giants we're going to look at the new race for power – literally. The United States is challenging Asia for dominance in production of the tiny semiconductor chips that help reduce reliance on fossil fuels and will expand and advance artificial intelligence. And technological power will be the key to national power in this…
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Mortal Giants, a podcast about the fragility of power in the 21st century. After almost a century of post -war prosperity and unrivalled American power, we've entered a new era of growing uncertainty and realignment as many of the world's nations now seek to challenge that dominance. For better or worse, one man, Xi Jinping,President of the People'…
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Do you have questions about the rush to produce the tiny semiconductor chips that are essential to the transition away from fossil fuels? Do you want to understand why China is a threat to Taiwan? Or why the most sophisticated chips are almost exclusively produced by Taiwan? Or if the new gold rush to be the leader in production is putting the worl…
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