The Yes Men punk PMO at Copenhagen

Published December 16, 2009

Canada's climate change policy was already a joke heading into the COP 15 negotiations in Copenhagen, but it got a whole lot funnier thanks to the intervention of some notorious pranksters known as The Yes Men.

It started Monday morning with an unknown Twitterer impersonating Environment Minister Jim Prentice, and by midday many were suckered by a fake Environment Canada press release announcing...

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