MONTRÉAL — Former environment minister Catherine McKenna says the leaders of Canada’s oil industry are figures close to American President Donald Trump who are “taking us for fools” and putting both the economy and environment at risk. Canada’s official greenhouse gas inventory was published last week. It showed that in 2024, oil and gas production […]
She just said it like it is and actually specifically called out US oil companies operating here. Not an accurate headline.
As long as she’s harshly critical, it’s a perfectly valid use of “blasts.” It’s just not the particular dictionary definition many of us would have preferred, apparently. Convenient sentence phrasing like “blasts the heads” does make me think the writer is wanting to create a certain image though. 😄