Alberta's tax-funded climate denial "war room" ripped off its logo from a US tech company

The Canadian Energy Center (AKA "The War Room") is a taxpayer funded propaganda outlet that the Alberta government -- dependent on the tar sands, the world's filthiest oil -- funds to deny climate change. It receives CAD30m/year in public funding.

The least deplorable thing about all of this is that they're also plagiarists, having stolen the logo of Progress, a US-based multinational tech firm.

After a public shaming, the War Room has announced it will change its logo.

To help it choose a new logo, Twitter users are suggesting new plagiarised logos under the #WarRoomLogoContest hashtag.

Great One by somebody else. #WarRoomLogoContest #ableg #abpoli pic.twitter.com/oN3CINfUTP

— kaiuoti (@_kaiuoti) December 20, 2019

I'm hoping there's no copyright issues with this one but I'm not going to check... #warroomlogocontest pic.twitter.com/FZOa9q9f3t

— Max Amerongen (@MaxAmerongen) December 20, 2019

#WarRoomLogoContest #ableg (its a wordmark but (. .) ) https://t.co/5JcridUIqN pic.twitter.com/jM7awde7c2

— El Costello (@elcostello) December 20, 2019

#warroomlogocontest #WarRoomLogoChallenge https://t.co/X7Zoamoeu7

— Clear Sight (@Huginzai) December 20, 2019

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