August 5, 2026
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#1412 Wet Hot Libel Summer: the Caylan Ford/Press Progress Fiasco
It might just be the longest media defamation trial in Canadian history: former Alberta UCP candidate Caylan Ford is suing PressProgress, the CBC, Toronto Star and several others, for $7.65 million. She says it’s cancel culture, but is she just shooting the messenger?
Jesse Brown
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Tristan Capacchione
Producer

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… 

 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Andrea Varsany (Producer), Kallan Lyons (Associate Producer and Fact Checking), Tristan Capacchione (Senior Production Supervisor), Jesse Brown (Editor)

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