At the Climate Change Conference earlier this month, youth leaders learned about the oil industry’s disinformation campaign, the Athabasca Tar Sands and other matters crucial to their future.

At “Enter, Athabasca Tar Sands,” the climate change conference for high school students hosted by Windemere Secondary School this December, students asked Andrew Nikiforuk (author of an award winning book on the Tar Sands), what he would do differently if he knew in high school what he knows now. He laughed.

“How do I answer that?"...

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