Headlines For Dec. 2, 2021
Montreal Gazette
Opinion: ‘Infodemic’ shows importance of teaching critical thinking
Of the areas that Quebec Citizenship and Culture intends to cover, perhaps none is more critical than critical thinking.
CBC Canada
Alberta premier hires lawyers over lawsuit threat from environmental groups
The Alberta government has hired a private law firm to defend Premier Jason Kenney after environmental groups threatened him with a defamation lawsuit. Paul Champ, lawyer for the environmentalists, says he’s been notified that the province has retained counsel.
Axios
2 election workers sue far-right website for spreading voting misinformation
Two Georgia election workers on Thursday filed a lawsuit against The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website, for accusing them “of committing ballot fraud to alter the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.” Why it matters: This is one of the first lawsuits to be filed by individual election workers against media companies for spreading misinformation about the 2020 elections.
Newsmeter
FACT CHECK: `Phantom’ did not talk of ‘China virus’ in 1957
