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1: Snopes

I think Snopes is a good fact-checking website for confirming whether or not the information is true or false, because it does it really quickly.

2: Bing News

I think that Bing News is convenient when you are using Microsoft Edge, since it is easy to access and some of the news stories are worth reading.

3: Wikipedia

I think Wikipedia is convenient as an encyclopedia because you can easily get information about anything quickly, even about news websites,
so you can tell whether a news source is reliable or not reliable.

4: CBC News

I think CBC News is one of the best news channels because it keeps you updated on Canada, it is very popular in Canada, and also has interesting news stories.

5: TinEye

I think TinEye is a good tool as a reverse image search engine when it comes to figuring out whether or not the image is showing what it claims to show.

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The content I will be investigating is a news story, about Canadians wanting to defend the police. The headline "Majority Of Canadians", and the information got distorted from the original source, "Canadians split along generational lines", so its not trustworthy, because the claim can mislead people. The original claim is more accurate. The skill I used was checking the sources.

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The legacy of the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers has manifested into global Black Lives Matter demonstrations as well as sustained calls to defund and reform contemporary police departments.

Driving the news: A recent Ipsos poll commissioned by Global News found that 51% of Canadians support the idea of defunding the police, with significant divide along generation lines. Since police budgets in Canada are largely a municipal issue, this story will observe how cities around the country have responded to calls to defund and reform the police.

Further Reading:

The role of the police: As of 2018, Canada has a police force of roughly 68,500 officers falling under regional and federal departments, mandated to "keep the peace" by enforcing the law and keeping Canadians safe.

However, critics argue that the public funding provided to police services could be reduced and re-invested to other essential aspects of societal life which could continue to decrease crime, but in a more holistic way.

Proposals put forward by organizations such as Black Lives Matter Canada call for a demilitarization of the police which would reduce the budget spent on weapons and tactical teams while also reducing the scope of their operations.

Finally, police brutality and needless deaths during the conducting of recent "wellness checks" which have resulted in the deaths of five Canadians in the last two month have fuelled the desire for a police-free, community-led, trauma-informed emergency service for mental health/psychiatric distress and other forms of crisis.

What do Canadians think? The recent Ipsos poll found that 51% of Canadians support the idea of defunding the police and redirecting those funds to other local government services, while 49% opposed the idea.

There is a significant divide along generational lines with a majority of Gen Z (77%) and Millennials (63%) being supportive while only a minority of Gen X (47%) and Boomers (39%) being supportive.

At the provincial level, 56% of British Columbians Supported the idea, followed by Manitoba (56%), Quebec (54%), Atlantic Canada (51%), Ontario (49%) and Alberta (48%).

So are cities defunding the police? Generally, no. Canadian cities and their mayors have engaged in conversations about minor aspects of reform but only a few cities, to this point, have explicitly decreased or redirected police funding. Here is what the cities are saying:

Victoria, BC has said it will review the gender and ethnic composition of its police force but its police chief is against funding cuts stating his department is already underfunded.

Vancouver, BC which has a $340 million policing budget, in May, failed to agree on a 1% funding cut suggested by the city council, with Mayor Kennedy Stewart choosing the defer to the province. Meanwhile, Premier Horgan has called defunding a "simplistic approach".

Surrey, BC has since 2018 been working on creating a municipal police force to replace the RCMP which should be up and running by 2021.

Calgary, AB which has faced calls to shift funding from its $400 million police budget, the city's largest expenditure, but has seen no action by its mayor or council.

Edmonton, AB has had its city council cut police spending by $11 million over two years (3%) and has announced 19 steps towards reform including creating a safety and well-being task force over the next year.

Regina, SK has said that its crime rates are too high to reallocate funds.

Winnipeg, MB has spoken favourably about reducing police funding if the funds are predicted to social services, but Premier Brian Pallister has taken a strong stance against defunding.

Toronto, ON has faced escalated calls for defunding following the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet. However, at the end of June, Toronto city council voted against decreasing the city's $1.2 billion police budget by 10%

Ottawa, ON has engaged in conversations over reallocating parts of its $358 million police budget, however, Mayor Jim Watson has stated he is not in favour of cutting spending.

Hamilton, ON has seen weeks of outcry for police reform recently manifested in "DEFUND THE POLICE" being painted on its main street. Following this, Chief of police Eric Girt stated that he would be open to more funding for increased mental health funding and allowing other agencies to respond to non-life-threatening crises.

Montreal QC's Mayor Valerie Plante has said stated openness to the discussion on the reallocation of funding but said it would be a difficult conversation.

Halifax, NS has dropped its plan to purchase an armoured vehicle and will relocate funds towards tackling anti-Black racism and public safety.

New Brunswick which has faced a multitude of recent death at the hands of the police has so far failed to engage in a conversation around defunding the police.

What about the RCMP? Serious questions have been asked about systemic racism within Canada's RCMP following two deaths in New Brunswick at the hands of Mounties and striking videos circulating online of an officer hitting a Nunavut man with his truck and the violent arrest of Chief Allan Adam in Alberta.

Prime Minister Trudeau and his Cabinet members have been quick to "call out" existing racism and faults within the RCMP, with Minister of Crown Indigenous-Relations Carolyn Bennett Tweeting "the system isn't broken, it was built that way." Yet these words have not been followed by action with only a half-hearted program to increase body cameras currently being worked on.

The Bottom Line: While the latest poll shows only a slim majority of Canadians supporting defunding the police, it represents a huge shift in public approval for a movement which has now become mainstream.

Mayors and city councils around the country have so far failed to act on calls to meaningfully defund and reform their local police departments, yet there is no indication of support for the movement decreasing, especially as support for it among the youth is over 65%.

Funding for the police usually represents the largest expenditure for cities, and so it would seem unlikely that there are no ways for cities to reallocate some of those funds towards more holistic, less violent forms of community protection.

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The legacy of the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers has manifested into global Black Lives Matter demonstrations as well as sustained calls to defund and reform contemporary police departments.

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The content I will be investigating is about a behind the scenes photo, claiming that the MGM lion was actually strapped on a machine. After reverse image searching the image on TinEye, the image was fake, and numerous amounts of sources claimed that the image was fake.

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The content I will be investigating is about a claim of a woman who attempted to train squirrels, to attack her ex. After copy and pasting this into Snopes, it turns out that the news was false.

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45-year old Janice Smith was arrested this morning by officers of the Detroit Police Department for allegedly capturing numerous squirrels and training them to attack her former lover.

The victim, 51-year-old James Robinson, was presumably attacked by the rodents on more than a dozen occasions over the last month.

These attacks caused him many serious injuries, including the loss of two fingers and one testicle, bitten off by his attackers.

The poor man had no idea why squirrels kept attacking him until he saw his ex-girlfriend, a former circus animal trainer, cheering the animals during one of the attacks.

"She was partially hidden behind some bushes, but I could clearly see her and hear her. She was yelling orders at the squirrels and telling them to attack me."

Realizing that his life could be in danger, Mr. Robinson filed a complaint with the police who later paid a visit to Ms. Smith.

In her residence, they found a dozen cages, holding a total of 27 squirrels. They also found two training dummies with pictures of Mr. Robinson taped over their faces.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig confirmed that Janice Smith had admitted that she was responsible for the attacks and confessed her strange plot.

"Ms. Smith confessed to capturing and training squirrels to harass and attack her ex-boyfriend. She used to train lions for a circus, so it was easy for her to make the animals do as she wanted. She said she hoped to raise an army of up to 50 or 100 animals."

The 45-year old woman is now facing a variety of criminal charges linked to criminal harassment and using animals as weapons.

Janice Smith's lawyers have demanded for her to undergo a psychological evaluation, claiming that she was unfit to stand trial.

They say that her choice of training squirrels instead of dogs or bears suggests that she might be suffering from mental problems.

If she is judged fit to stand trial, Ms. Smith will be facing a maximum of 65 years in prison.

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Woman arrested for training squirrels to attack her ex-boyfriend

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45-year old Janice Smith was arrested this morning by officers of the Detroit Police Department for allegedly capturing numerous squirrels and training them to attack her former lover. The victim, 51-year-old James Robinson, was presumably attacked by the rodents on more than a dozen occasions over

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The content I will be investigating is a news story, about a US school district arming students with rocks, to ward off school shooters. After searching up the news story, I now know that this news story is true, because there are other sources reporting the same thing, including big sources, such as CNN.

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Students in one US school district are being armed with rocks to defend themselves during a mass shooting

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‘I thought rocks would be more effective than throwing books or book bags or staplers’

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The content I will be investigating is a non-profit news agency named Associated Press. I trust this website because I learned from Wikipedia, using the "Just Add Wikipedia" method, that Associated Press is 175 years old, and that it won 56 Pulitzer Prizes.

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Associated Press News: Breaking News, Latest Headlines and Videos | AP News

Officials and media reports say Hamas has released a group of hostages held captive in Gaza for weeks, including 13 Israelis.

This year, record sea turtle nesting was found in Florida and elsewhere in the U.S. despite growing concern about threats from climate change. (Nov. 24) (AP Video/Cody Jackson)

From the obsessive record collector to the casual listener. The shower singers to the rock stars of tomorrow. There's a music-inspired gift for everyone over the holidays. The challenge, of course, is in the decision making.

Impossible is often just a starting point on a Christopher Nolan film and "Oppenheimer," about the father of the atomic bomb, was no exception.

Anger has erupted in Italy over the slaying of a college student allegedly by an ex-boyfriend who resented her success and wouldn't accept their breakup.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is visiting Antarctica just before the COP28 climate talks begin in Dubai.

Meat cultivated from cells - with no need to raise and slaughter an animal - is starting to show up in restaurants around the world. But can it be made cheaply enough to displace animal agriculture?

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Associated Press News: Breaking News | Latest News Today

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Stay informed and read the latest news today from The Associated Press, the definitive source for independent journalism from every corner of the globe.

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The content that I will be investigating is a news website named InfoWars. During my research, I learned that InfoWars wasn't trustworthy, because I looked in the list of fake news websites in Wikipedia.

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Skill 3: Trace the information to the source.

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Skill 3: Trace the information to the source.

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If you want to find the original article and the information is sourced, click on the link to go to the article, just in case the story is exaggerated from the original article. Otherwise, copy the information, and paste it on the search bar, and hit enter. You should be able to find the original source on the search results.

If you also want to figure out whether or not an image is showing what it claims to show, use https://tineye.com. Right click the image and copy the image address, and paste it into the website search bar.

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If you don't know whether a news story is real or fake, try to find the claim, on other sources such as CNN. Copy and paste the claim into the search bar, and find other sites reporting the news. It will be easier to tell whether or not the news story is real, because bigger news sources are more trustworthy.

You can also use https://www.snopes.com/, to instantly see if the information is true or false. Copy and paste the claim onto the Snopes search bar, and it should tell you whether or not its true or false.

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If you don't know whether or not the source is false information, copy the link, paste it in the search bar, and type Wikipedia at the end of the link. This will take you to https://www.wikipedia.org/ and tell you whether or not the source is false information.

Wikipedia also has an international list of fake sources, so you can see what sources aren't trustworthy, so if you think a source isn't trustworthy, just check if it is on the list or not.

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CTRL+F - Click through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGbbC7tq8I8&t=4s

CTRL+F - Search the history of an image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXBDnDLZ2M4&t=95s

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Skill: Just Add Wikipedia with Mike Caulfield

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Information Pollution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGYGzCHDhv4

Introduction to CTRL-F with Jane Lytvynenko & Mike Caulfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRxOoCYWqbQ

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Misinformation is false information spread, but the person wasn't sharing it with malicious intent.

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Disinformation is false information that is misleading with malicious intent.

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Why is it important to verify information online?

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Why is it important to verify information online?

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It's important to verify information online because the information could potentially be false information, and there is tons of information online, making it harder to figure out whether the information is false or not.