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Wet Hot Libel Summer: the Caylan Ford/Press Progress Fiasco
Description
Seven years in, we're looking at what might just be the longest and most involved media defamation trial in Canadian history: former Alberta United Conservative Party candidate Caylan Ford is suing PressProgress, the CBC, Toronto Star and several others, for $7.65 million. She says that they wrongly portrayed her as an white supremesist, they say that they were only quoting her…
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Andrea Varsany (Producer), Kallan Lyons (Associate Producer and Fact Checking), Tristan Capacchione (Senior Production Supervisor), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Jen Gerson
Further reading:
- Caylan Ford Statement of Claim
- PressProgress Statement of Claim
- Defend Canadian Journalism - Broadbent Institute
- Defend Canadian Journalism - PressProgress
- Litigation — Caylan Ford
- Support PressProgress - Defend Canadian Journalism
- Caylan Ford speaks out: Former UCP candidate reveals why she was “cancelled” | Keean Bexte
- Resisting the mob (feat. Caylan Ford)
- When the Mob Came
- Alberta Needs Anti-SLAPP Legislation!
- UCP Candidate Complained ‘White Supremacist Terrorists’ Are Treated Unfairly, Leaked Messages Show
- Press Progress claims my lawsuit is a frivolous SLAPP action. Here are the facts.
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