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1. Just posted a small but perhaps important update to our last story on WE Charity in Kenya.

I'll provide a bit of context on it here.
2. If you read the story, you know that we obtained a recording of Marc Kielburger on the phone in 2017 with the person who ran WE's Kenya operation, Peter Ruhiu. soundcloud.com/canadaland/i-c…
3. During the call, Ruhiu makes death threats about one of Kielburger's employees, talks about paying-off government investigators, and mentions their organization's "criminal offences." Marc listens calmly and agrees that the situation is "mission critical." He offers his help.
4. When we asked Marc Kielburger about this, his lawyer explained that actually, Kielburger was collecting information during the call on behalf of the Kenyan police. He made the call and recorded it because they asked him to, as they were investigating Peter Ruhiu at WE's urging
5. We included this explanation in our report. But we also asked Kielburger and his lawyer if they could provide any documentation in support of these claims.
6. Our small update is that neither Marc Kielburger or his lawyer have responded to that request for supporting documentation.

If they do, we will update our story again. 

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1. I finally had a chance to take a close look at the reporting on this story about @puglass "refusing" to vacate her office, and I think people should be wary of it and think hard about where it came. Here's why... cbc.ca/news/politics/…
2. The narrative CBC published is loaded & the language seems engineered to set off a series of emotional responses: @Puglaas is "refusing" to leave, she's "no longer entitled" to "occupy" her "suite" of offices with a private bathroom. And she calls the *other* side petty...
3. It goes on. CBC dedicates 7 paragraphs to the fact that @puglaas had an elder bless the office. The implication is that she is playing the race card and basing a claim to keep the office on this blessing. But she doesn't.
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Here's a little story I'd like to tell about a big circle jerk between government, a think tank and the media.
2. A few years back the Trudeau government hired a think tank run by a former Globe and Mail editor-in-chief to do a big report on why the news biz is so messed up in Canada and what gov't should do about it. shatteredmirror.ca
3. While the reasons for the news crisis were obvious & the same as everywhere else (FB & Google) the report seized on "fake news" & cited it 34 times without any evidence that it's even a thing in Canada. Also, "filter bubbles" (x10) & "echo chambers" (x5) w/out substantiation.
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Something big happened very quietly last week.

According to the chair of the Canadian Association of Journalists, Canada's dying newspapers just succeeded in DOUBLING the amount of government bailout money they're likely gonna get.

Here's how they did it:
Background: the Trudeau gov't said they were gonna give $600m to news companies, but also said they were NOT gonna bail out dying business models, not gonna decide who is and who isn't a journalist, not gonna pick winner & loser news companies...
Instead, they created an ~Expert Panel~ to make those decisions. Here's who they put on that panel:

4 Newspaper owner groups
2 Newspaper employee groups
2 Journalism associations

The public had no representation.
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