Demonizing canola oil isn't science — it's ideology. Canada's most successful crop deserves evidence-based respect, not a witch hunt fueled by nutritional folklore.

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As Canada’s canola harvest draws to a close, the combines rolling across the Prairies symbolize more than another agricultural season ending. They represent a national success story — one that has quietly powered Canada’s food economy for half a century. Yet while farmers collect a golden crop, a storm of misinformation continues to swirl around one of its key products: canola oil.

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Once heralded as a made-in-Canada innovation that helped transform global diets, canola oil has recently become the scapegoat of a new nutritional panic. Critics lump it with other so-called “seed oils,” portraying it as inflammatory, toxic, and responsible for a host of modern health ailments. Some U.S. advocacy movements, including “Make America Healthy........

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