Fact Checking Video promotes false information about CRA tracking payments over $1,000 Marissa Birnie Jul 11, 2025 A TikTok account posted a video in July claiming retailers and financial institutions would report purchases over $1,000 to the Canada Revenue…
Fact Checking Video of Carney announcing phaseout of old vehicles is a fake Christopher Reynolds May 8, 2025 A video shared on social media appears to show Prime Minister Mark Carney saying 25-year-old cars will be taken off the road, among other vehi…
Fact Checking TikTok of 'immigrant' making demands to Canada is altered video of Welsh woman Marissa Birnie Feb 6, 2025 On Dec. 22 a TikTok user posted a video that claimed to show an immigrant woman giving Canada a list of demands including "more welfare" and "…
Fact Checking TikTok clip claiming ‘stunning’ new footage of Mars is misleading Christopher Reynolds Nov 29, 2024 A video shared on social media appears to show a ground's-eye view of Mars, claiming that NASA just released the “clearest view of Mars yet” a…
Fact Checking Viral audio clip of Trump promising to have Trudeau 'arrested' is fake Colleen Hale-Hodgson Nov 26, 2024 Amid the lead-up to, and the fallout from the U.S. general election earlier this month, some social media users shared an audio recording of w…
Fact Checking Social media posts falsely claim Tim Hortons worker was fired for asking about hiring practices Joe Bongiorno Oct 15, 2024 Images are circulating on social media claiming that the Tim Hortons worker in the images was fired because she asked why the company was hiri…
Fact Checking No evidence albino grizzly bear sent to Arctic after being mistaken for polar bear Brittany Hobson Jul 4, 2024 Canada is home to roughly 20,000 grizzly bears that can range in colour from jet black to light blond, with the rarest colour being white. A v…
Fact Checking Scotch Creek, B.C., fire hydrant featured in video ran dry because of heavy use, power outage Ashley Joannou Aug 30, 2023 On Aug.18, British Columbia declared a provincial state of emergency in response to hundreds of wildfires burning across the province. In the …
Fact Checking Video shows U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan, not landing in Ukraine Joe O'Connal, Colleen Hale-Hodgson Jun 1, 2023 Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, concerns that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would be drawn into the conflict have circ…
Fact Checking Viral claims about robot killing itself are wrong: it simply malfunctioned Jim Bronskill Apr 27, 2023 Some social media accounts are claiming that a robot killed itself at a trade-show demonstration rather than continue the monotonous task of m…
