Another fine example of fake news

Here's a story from 2012 about a CTV news headline that turned out to be 90% fake.

Mercedes Stephenson claimed in 2012 that Canada delivers half a billion dollars in "aid" to the Palestinians every year. The actual amount is a tiny fraction of that, and it tends to be directed at PA security infrastructure, ie the Kapos who do Israel's dirty work in the occupied territories.

That's Canada's "aid" to the Palestinians!

Funny how the folks most incensed about "fake news" are the very same people who have been making it up and broadcasting it for years!

Canada's "half a billion annual aid" to Palestine at risk after UN vote

That's according to Mercedes Stephenson, correspondent for Canada's CTV network.

Half a billion?

Try as I might, I could find no evidence that Canada's contributions to the PA have ever been more than a fraction of that.

A fraction in the order of one tenth, more or less.

But the CTV network inflates the truth by 1000% and passes that off as news.

Shame on you, Mercedes Stephenson, and shame on CTV.