CBC-funded prank show’s deceptive tactics raise fraud and legal concerns: Lawyer
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CBC-funded prank show’s deceptive tactics raise fraud and legal concerns: Lawyer ANALYSIS 20 MAY 2026 i ARTICLE SUMMARY QUOTES The producers of a co-produced CBC and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) TV show may have committed civil fraud against their targets, a Toronto defamation lawyer believes after reviewing the facts currently available to the public. Denis Grigoras, a Toronto-based civil litigation and defamation lawyer at Grigoras Law, says that the public evidence involving the CBC-funded Northland Tales show producers allegedly using fictitious corporate identities, false …
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