Wet Hot Libel Summer: the Caylan Ford/Press Progress Fiasco

Wet Hot Libel Summer: the Caylan Ford/Press Progress Fiasco

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 a white supremacist, they say that they were only quoting her…


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