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BREAKING: Members of the Trudeau family were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by @WEMovement for speeches and appearances, Canadaland has learned. Story to come.
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Last night @jordanbpeterson posted to his 3.6 million followers a document containing the full names and detailed personal information of people who filed complaints against him to the Ontario College of Psychologists, regarding his use of social media. 1/3
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NEW: Postmedia has given a directive for all of its papers to shift to the political right, in an unprecedented, centralized fashion. An inside look at the conservative overhaul of Canada's biggest newspaper chain:
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Ezra Levant says The Rebel has been cut off by PayPal, and that they are now "bleeding heavily" and it "could actually destroy" them:
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In a scathing decision, the National NewsMedia Council calls out Sue-Ann Levy and the Toronto Sun for "a serious breach of journalistic standards" in reporting the false claim that refugees were slaughtering goats in hotel bathrooms:
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Another member of the Trudeau government tied to WE Charity: Finance Minister @Bill_Morneau.
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Three tweets that new Torstar CEO Marina Glogovac has deleted since yesterday:
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62 journalists at the Toronto Star have signed a letter to management concerning a "hateful, racist reply-all email" sent last week by columnist Rosie DiManno:
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NEW: CTV News executive who fired Lisa LaFlamme taking leave "to spend time with his family."
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A statement from our publisher on the libel suit against our podcast, The White Saviors:
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WE Charity told the CBC they "never paid an honorarium to these individuals for their involvement.". Turns out that WE entities actually paid over $350k for speeches by Margaret and Sasha Trudeau.
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NEW: The Queen's Park columnist for the Toronto Sun… lives with Doug Ford's press secretary.
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WE Charity has served Canadaland with a Notice of Libel, accusing us of intending to defame them in The White Saviors, a podcast we have not yet released. "We are extremely concerned about the expected content of the podcast.". They have demanded that we withhold publication.
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Financial "backwash" at WE has charity analyst ringing alarms.
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BREAKING: former WE Charity donor/advisory board member Reed Cowan says he has reported WE Charity for fraud with the I.R.S. and asked the R.C.M.P. to seize WE Charity documents in incendiary video.
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WE plans to "return to its roots" by prioritizing its international development work. That got us wondering: What is WE Charity actually doing around the world?
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Catherine Tait, the President & CEO of CBC/RadioCanada, shared this message internally with her staff today. It is not going over well. We will now share some employee responses from the CBC's internal website in this thread, with names redacted.
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The CBC confirms to us that the man seen in this video helping Barrie Police Officer Jason Stamp hold down skateboarder Skyler Kent is "a CBC/Radio-Canada employee and a volunteer auxiliary member of the OPP."
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NEW: Bill Morneau’s family flew to WE’s Kenya compound, in possible violation of federal law.
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He had attempted to obscure this information, but botched this. 2/3
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Faith Goldy copied and pasted the work of a prominent Toronto election lawyer. He was not happy about this, and so decided to help out her opponents pro bono:
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The Rebel says that getting demonetized by YouTube — as apparently happened yesterday — will cost them $400,000 a year:
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We obtained a recording of Marc Kielburger patiently listening as a senior employee describes how he paid off Kenyan government officials and threatens to have a colleague murdered:
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Jordan Peterson has had problems with the Ontario College of Psychologists before. In 2018, Peterson threatened to sue us if we ran this story about it. We did, and he didn't.
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Memo lays out Toronto Sun plan to go after the Liberals in the Ontario election:
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EXCLUSIVE: Calgary conservatives plotted to entrap and oust mayor Nenshi in “big store con” scheme
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Rumours of a suppressed Globe story about Justin Trudeau being fired for an affair are bullshit: by @Justin_Ling.
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"How can you write this and not once say the word "Black"? This message is deeply disappointing and beyond unacceptable — vague and non-specific, self-congratulatory (about journalism that has been rightly criticized!), and wildly discouraging.".
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New: The Rebel has lost two cases at the Ontario Court of Appeal, upholding earlier rulings that tossed out the company's lawsuits against media that covered it:
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"Hey Siri, write me a corporate statement for the Anti-Black racism crisis. but don't use the word Black.".
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NEW: In response to our investigation, former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi has called for an RCMP investigation into the failed plot to entrap him.
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Toronto Mayor John Tory denies involvement in deal for WE Charity's former HQ:
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The Canadian media keeps talking about Sikhs, while seldom talking to actual Sikhs:
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Former employees tell Canadaland that WE's accounting department is unlike any other part of the organization…
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But isn't Postmedia already conservative, you may ask? Well, the company's new leadership thinks that even the National Post isn't reliably conservative enough.
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BREAKING: WE Charity is winding down its Canadian operations, two sources tell Canadaland. Announcement expected shortly.
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It's taken over 5 years, but the CBC has finally started trolling Jesse back.
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The Rebel now owes the two defendants a total of $252,145.50 in costs.
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"This is an extraordinarily embarrassing and empty response from the leader of a corporation that has grossly mishandled coverage of this crisis and has been complicit in upholding systemic anti-Black racism in this country for a very long time.".
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"Citing an unsubstantiated post from a crowdsourced platform as evidence is akin to citing a rumour. Without supporting facts around what was a potentially inflammatory report, this represents a failure of basic, widely accepted journalistic standards.".
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In its first year of operation, the ME to WE Foundation of Canada — a registered charity — spent 130 times more on real estate than on expenses for carrying out charitable programs:
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APTN wanted tonight's debate to include an Indigenous moderator. Instead, the producers told them one of their reporters could serve as a human mic stand.
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Last week, we were served with a legal notice demanding that we withhold publication of our podcast The White Saviors, which had not yet launched. We stand by our reporting. Our series launched on Monday. Today it is the #1 show on @ApplePodcasts .
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NEW: . WE founded a new charity to give grants to students. It’s mostly just bought up real estate.
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NEW: The Globe and Mail's editor-in-chief had a direct hand in publishing the Ezra Levant op-ed, per sources familiar with the matter:
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And a centrist paper like the Edmonton Journal, long a thorn in the side of Alberta's Conservative parties? Postmedia removed the editor-in-chief in part because he supported carbon pricing:
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"Thanks for your note, Catherine. I think we have quite a way to go to live up to our mandate as a "public" broadcaster. I believe more Black people, People of Colour and Indigenous people in positions of leadership and power at the CBC would bring about that paradigm shift.".
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The City of Toronto is expected to spend up to nearly $10 million over 15 years to lease and renovate a property belonging to a numbered company owned by the parents of Craig and Marc Kielburger.
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Chaos, betrayal, and espionage, at a charity for children.
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Amid Anti-Jewish bias complaints inside the Toronto Star, Internal Ombud role “untenable,” says Editor in Chief
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"Any chance we'll get an update on a decision to capitalize Black within our style guide?".
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". this letter reads as congratulatory when the CBC has been called out publicly for how we have been complicit in anti-Black racism again just in these past days.".
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Contrary to what is suggested here by WE Charity, Canadaland has *not* been served with a defamation lawsuit by WE, despite threats from WE that they would sue us if we published what we knew about them. If that changes, we'll let you know.
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Dude. You're based in Cairo.
Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🦃. Thanks to Trudeau's failures, I might not be able to purchase a turkey for Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for?. #Thanksgiving
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Meanwhile, the Globe's union "rejects management’s decision" to publish the piece. They've just put out a bulletin, and we've published it in full.
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Sue-Ann Levy announces that, after 31 years, she's leaving the Toronto Sun "to pursue a love of acting":
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CBC has confirmed to us that on election night in Ontario, CBC TV will be broadcasting an episode of the Murdoch Mysteries, not local election coverage. They cite "competing priorities" and "commitments to our advertisers" as the reasons why.
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The CBC was so concerned about reputational damage that they fired Ahmar Khan for trying to blow the whistle on systemic racism at the broadcaster. Whoops.
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Governments all over Canada keep building infrastructure that is innately harmful to Canadians and the climate. Today, Dr. Edda Bild, @notjustbikes, and @BrentToderian talk about what better, more sustainable cities would look like.
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Millions of Canadians learn things from our investigations that they otherwise would never have known. But only a handful of Canadians fuel our work, for $5/month. Join them!.
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BREAKING: the whistleblower website published by WE Charity's former Senior Director @SantaiKimakeke has been scrubbed of information and documents and replaced with a disavowal of earlier posts.
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It is perhaps fitting that Jian Ghomeshi's attempted comeback project misspells the word "integration":
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🚨NEW🚨: Following questions from Canadaland into alleged financial impropriety at #WECharity (Kenya), government charity regulator looking into "assets," "regulatory and governance matters" at Kielburger NGO. FULL STORY to come.
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Well, that was fast. The San Francisco-based company that Jian Ghomeshi was using to host and monetize his podcast has already suspended it:
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Meanwhile, Jordan Peterson has been working on a secret project out of the fifth floor of Postmedia's offices and recently dined with the company's board of directors.
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"imagine the thrill of being seen by you. i’m sure that makes everything better. i see the board of directors - and senior management - and - what they have obviously and painfully in common. this greatly undercuts your claim of solidarity. ".
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Excited to announce that our new French language media correspondent is the brilliant @Emilie_Ni. Thanks to everyone who funded this new beat. Welcome to the team, Emilie!.
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Ontario Proud describes itself as a "grassroots" group. Guess what!
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“The way they treat young people,” said a former WE director who left in the last four years, “is incredibly toxic and inappropriate.”. From our archives, @whoisjaren's investigation of @WEMovement .
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In a news release, CANADALAND contributor @KarlDockstader says he was "arrested and charged yesterday for reporting during a land action at #1492LandBackLane" (@1492LBL):
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We repeatedly pressed @TaraRHenley to offer specific examples of how she was stifled by the CBC’s ‘woke’ agenda, and, well… Have a listen for yourself.
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Faith Goldy Illegally Sells T-Shirts, Presumably to Pay Off Legal Debt
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CANADALANDBACK. Indigenous stories reported by Indigenous journalists, hosted by @RMComedy . Our goal, with your help right now at:
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Less than three months after naming The Rebel as one of his "go-to news sources," Scheer claims that he's barely followed them:
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More generally, there are concerns about what Postmedia's new editorial leadership will mean for reporters and columnists covering climate issues.
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And another nearby building was recently acquired by the City for $2 as part of a community-benefits arrangement with a condo developer, which had set up its own numbered company to purchase it off of WE Charity for $2.75 million.
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That same numbered company was also used to purchase a different property on behalf of the ME to WE Foundation. And a different numbered company belonging to the parents owns a different property next door to the one the City is leasing.
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"There is a history of the appellants using litigation to silence critics," the judges write, in deciding to increase the cost awards The Rebel must pay to the defendants.
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Let's Talk About How my Job at Bell Gave Me Mental Health Issues & No Benefits by @karenkho
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The Chinese state has infiltrated Canadian democracy at all levels, according to a report from investigative reporter @scoopercooper. Trudeau has issued a stern denial. Who's telling the truth? And what is Beijing up to in Canada? Sam explains his work.
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All that and more in @sdbcraig's massive investigation, for which he spoke to more than 30 current and (a dozen former) Postmedia employees:
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There are only two possible scenarios for Rosemary Barton, writes @JesseBrown, and neither are good.
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Doug Ford's office confirms the story, saying that Lilley and Yelich "found love":
This cave dweller of a human being who looks like he’s never had the physical embrace from a partner is so devastated two people found love he attacks their privacy.
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How the far right took a CBC reporter's tweet out of context and spun the Toronto van attack as Islamic terrorism:
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PREMIERING TODAY – the first two episodes of Thunder Bay, the @CraveCanada Original documentary series, are now available to stream. Based on our hit podcast, Thunder Bay, the show follows Ryan McMahon as he continues telling these important stories.
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On residential schools and Indian hospitals, @rjjago writes about the truth and the heartbreak of history on #TruthandReconciliationDay
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In the U.S., WE Charity has paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to a "trusted friend" of the Kielburgers, among other notable expenses:
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Canadaland is thrilled to announce the hiring of its new Editor-in-Chief, Karyn Pugliese.
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