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Rock bottom beckons while journos lose what little grasp they had on why not all Canadians have abandoned faith

PMO news release gets free ride, Jews get blamed, Christians are weird and other takeaways from the week that was

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Peter Menzies
Aug 31, 2025
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Frame grab of since deleted Montreal Gazette front page

You know we’ve hit something close to rock bottom when the dean of the Parliamentary Press Gallery starts playing government comms guy by copying and pasting news releases. We’ll get to that, but, first, a look at how talk of God confuses newshounds.

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