Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver has been dismissed with the judge ruling an article critical of the politician was so poorly written that it lacked credibility. The case centres on an article written by Timothy Ball, a climate-change skeptic and retired geography professor with the University of Winnipeg. The article, "Corruption of Climate Science Has Created 30 Lost Years," appeared on the Canada Free Press website in January of 2011. He said he found the article online and soon after retained legal counsel, demanding a retraction and apology from the website. Ball argued the article was about climate science and politics in general and not Weaver specifically.

Source: CBC News February 15, 2018 03:11 UTC