There is a rumour that has been going around about PM Trudeau this past week. It is some nasty hearsay about the reason he left West Point Grey Academy mid-year in 2001.

I question whether it is true, due to the fact that this election isn’t his first foray into politics and it makes me wonder why it was not uncovered four years ago, or more, when he was first attempting to become Prime Minister of Canada.

However, there is apparently a court injunction stopping the Globe and Mail from publishing the story. That too could, quite honestly, be a rumour. That’s our world today, where separating information from misinformation is a difficult task for the general public.

The media used to do that for us. We could count on journalism to be fair and honest. Not anymore. Everyone has become tribal including most media. Journalists know what tribe they are joining when they begin working for a national media company.

One such group is Rebel Media. When I first got involved with social media, I came upon a couple of interviews they featured exposing people as hypocrites. One such person was David Suzuki. The environmentalist apparently had up to five different homes he was heating and was very shifty when asked direct questions about his apparent hypocrisy. For a person preaching to society about their environmental flaws, these were legitimate questions. . . . contd.

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