EXCLUSIVE: CBC confirms they are behind media sting targeting residential school narrative critics
CBC confirms a media sting attempting to smear political commentators including academic Frances Widdowson was part of a CBC Entertainment project, Widdowson blasted the project for being misdirected.
Following outrage over a media set up, academic Frances Widdowson exposed on X, the CBC has confirmed that the public broadcaster was behind the media sting on notable political commentators. The project also received significant media grants from Canadian Heritage.
Widdowson told Juno News that she, along with author Lindsay Shepherd, author Jerry Amernic, an unnamed RCMP officer, and later Dallas Brodie, had all been targeted by the media company.
The commentators are all known for criticizing claims that 215 bodies were found at a residential school in Kamloops B.C., as well as for defending Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
