Sister Sage's Musings » youth environmentalists http://sistersagesmusings.ca Center-left blog from Canadians across the country and beyond Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:36:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Barbara Yaffe channels Niall Ferguson in wildly dishonest war on youth article. Will our journalistic class challenge her, too? http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2012/08/21/barbara-yaffe-channels-niall-ferguson-in-wildly-dishonest-war-on-youth-article-will-our-journalistic-class-challenge-her-too/ http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2012/08/21/barbara-yaffe-channels-niall-ferguson-in-wildly-dishonest-war-on-youth-article-will-our-journalistic-class-challenge-her-too/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:02:08 +0000 Jymn http://sistersagesmusings.ca/?p=12790 There’s a lot of misinformation in this article from Vancouver Sun’s Barbara Yaffe, but this extended nugget caught my attention (emphasis mine):

Just 38.8 per cent of youth voted in last year’s election.

Young environmentalists clearly need to get out and vote. 

And they’d benefit from moderating their message so it doesn’tconsistently demonize the corporate sector. 

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