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 an white supremesist, they say that they were only quoting her…

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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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