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Quebec’s best-known conspiracy theorist, Alexis Cossette-Trudel, lost another media platform on Thursday when YouTube shut down his account, which had more than 120,000 subscribers. YouTube said it was removing Cossette-Trudel’s channel, Radio-Québec, for “repeatedly violating our community guidelines regarding COVID-19 misinformation.” The news
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A strange object seen in the skies near Clarenville in 1978 might not be any closer to being explained, but its eeriness is now immortalized in a glowing coin from the Royal Canadian Mint. Just five days before Halloween in that year, people spotted a
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One of Quebec’s most prominent advocates of the QAnon conspiracy movement, which spreads falsehoods about COVID-19, has been kicked off Facebook. The page belonging to Radio-Québec, a media outlet with 77,000 followers on Facebook, was taken down on Wednesday, Facebook
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The leader of Saskatchewan’s incumbent political party says QAnon conspiracies have no place in Saskatchewan politics. On Sunday, Scott Moe, leader of the Saskatchewan Party, took a firm stance against the conspiracy group after one of his candidates resigned after
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Daryl Cooper, the Saskatchewan Party candidate for Saskatoon Eastview, has resigned his nomination. The resignation comes after it was publicized Cooper has been engaging with members of the QAnon conspiracy group online and shared an unproven theory about the cause
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The leader of the Saskatchewan Party says online interactions by a candidate in the upcoming provincial election with people who appear to support the right-wing conspiracy group QAnon are concerning. Daryl Cooper, who is running for the Saskatchewan Party in Saskatoon Eastview, recently
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Front Burner An anti-mask conspiracy movement with ties to the far right is gaining momentum in Quebec. Jonathan Montpetit tells us why, and what it means for the province’s fight against COVID-19. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Sep 28,
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In a world where “it is getting more and more difficult to sort fact from fiction,” it’s crucial to dissect popular conspiracies and hold governments accountable, said Michelle Shephard. Brainwashed, the new CBC Podcast co-produced with The Fifth Estate and hosted by
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Twitter said Thursday it has reduced impressions on QAnon-related tweets by more than 50 per cent through its “work to deamplify content and accounts” associated with the conspiracy theory. In July, the social media company said it would stop recommending QAnon
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Late one Tuesday night in May, while most of Quebec was still under lockdown orders, the phone rang in Premier François Legault’s riding office. In a calm but firm voice, a man left a message saying he regretted voting for
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