Canadaland
April 1, 2021
Part 1: Fake News From Fish Farms
SeaWestNews calls Alexandra Morton “BC’s loudest anti-salmon farming activist,” and her writing “rambling” and “conspiracy-laden.”
Originally a whale biologist from California, Morton was shocked into activism when her research revealed the devastating results of industrialized salmon farming.
Since then, she’s been subject to attack campaigns meant to discredit her, intimidated by sea Mounties, and surveilled by armed operatives in boats with tinted windows. And she’s exposed the salmon industry’s influence on the government department meant to protect the oceans.
Part 2: Picky With The Sticky
Are all of these stories about vaccine efficacy doing more harm than good?
Montréal Gazette health reporter Aaron Derfel co-hosts.