NATIONAL HEADLINES 7 FEBRUARY 2019
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  No, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh does not live in a $5.5-million dollar mansion. But online visitors to the Vancouver Courier and other sites were fed that fake news. The facts about how that happened remain murky, but what’s clear is that a major online ad network whose CEO boasts of “disciplined processes” to prevent “tricksters” can be used to deliver false and potentially damaging information to thousands of voters during a high-stakes election in Canada. The Tyee noted an ad located below a Vancouver Courier news story. The ad showed a photo of Singh over the headline: “Jagmeet Singh Shows off His New Mansion” and in small type the words Attorney Cocktail. Clicking on it took the reader to an article on the site Attorney Cocktail headlined “13 Super Luxurious Celebrity Houses – They Surely Know How to Spend Their Fortune.” Click here for the full story by David Beers and Bryan Carney. |
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Andrew Scheer, Political Klutz Canada’s big race on the line, the Tory keeps tripping over chances.
By Michael Harris. Monday, February 4, 2019. Alberta’s Mega Oil and Gas Liability Crisis, Explained A Supreme Court ruling now forces firms to clean up abandoned wells before paying creditors. That doesn’t solve much.
By Andrew Nikiforuk. Monday, February 4, 2019. How Pollution from a Nova Scotia Pulp Mill Could Sink Trudeau on Both Coasts PM’s hands-off stance on threat to fisheries betrays environmentalist posture.
By Michael Harris. Thursday, February 7, 2019. Why I Decided to Accept the Order of Canada For Canadians, it’s the highest possible honour. For me? I needed to think about it.
By Judith Sayers. Thursday, February 7, 2019. Who Called the Political Fashion Police? Shocked by pols san shirts or thigh-high boots? Get over it!
By Dorothy Woodend. Wednesday, February 6, 2019. Mirlo Liendo on What Living Precariously Teaches a Child Home was fleeting, shaping her adult options and decisions. Latest in the Talking Home series.
By Jay Pitter. Wednesday, February 6, 2019. I’m No Longer a Chop Suey Hater Ann Hui’s new book taught me nothing’s truly authentic or fake when it comes to the heritage of Canada’s Chinese restaurants.
By Christopher Cheung. Tuesday, February 5, 2019. Torstar (Again) Blocks Release of Evidence in Conspiracy Case Fighting words: Feds rip news giant’s secrecy request; court reseals documents.
By Bryan Carney. Tuesday, February 5, 2019. Dylan Cohen on Finding ‘Home’ after Foster Care The youth advocate on why kids need more say in fixing our housing crisis. First in a series: Talking Home.
By Jay Pitter. Monday, February 4, 2019. Malnutrition, Obesity and Climate Change Threaten Our Future, Warns Report Lancet says three threats are interacting to create a dangerous ‘syndemic.’
By Crawford Kilian. Friday, February 1, 2019. ‘Fingers in All Pots’: Canada’s Reckoning with China The Meng Affair as a six-act opera starring Trudeau and the fate of nations.
By Andrew Nikiforuk. Thursday, January 31, 2019. |
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