Nature Canada, an Ottawa-based charity that’s been around since 1939, recently added its name to an alliance of environmental groups lambasting the federal and provincial governments on forestry issues, claiming they were complicit with the forest industry in “spinning” the truth. Nature Canada charged NRCan, in particular, with using “highly selective statistics;” “distorting or excluding information;” making “questionable and misleading claims;” offering “limited or selected information;” and “(relying) heavily on omission and redirection.” That’s quite a charge sheet. …For some inexplicable reason, it fails to tell the Canadian public that the 400,000-hectare logging represents a mere 0.16% of the boreal forest. Yes, the Canadian Boreal is being “decimated”by a “ferocious” industry that’s logging a mere 0.16% of it! Or 2% over the last 15 years. …If this is not “spinning” the truth, I don’t know what is. …P.S. I have nothing personal against Nature Canada. It does some good stuff. I just can’t stand BS.