{"id":1282407,"date":"2022-02-08T15:53:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282407"},"modified":"2022-02-08T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:53:10","slug":"fact-check-did-cbc-report-canadian-truckers-are-being-condemned-for-giving-away-free-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-cbc-report-canadian-truckers-are-being-condemned-for-giving-away-free-food\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did CBC Report Canadian Truckers Are Being Condemned For \u2018Giving Away Free Food\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-cbc-report-canadian-truckers-are-being-condemned-for-giving-away-free-food%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282407&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/AoPcT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) news article that claims Canadian truckers who are giving away free food are being condemned \u201cfor not having gluten free options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of CBC publishing such an article. A spokesperson for the company confirmed it is fake.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A large group of Canadian truck drivers and their supporters traveled to Ottawa Jan. 29 to protest against a COVID-19 vaccination mandate targeting the country\u2019s trucking industry, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/31\/americas\/canada-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-trucker-protests\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. Some protesters have remained in the city and are using their trucks to block traffic, prompting Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson to declare a state of emergency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-60300163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>&nbsp;reported.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of the ongoing protest, social media users have been sharing what appears to be a screenshot of a Feb. 2 CBC news article with a headline that reads, \u201cTruckers giving away free food condemed (sic) for not having gluten free options.\u201d A subheadline below that reads, \u201cTruckers not expressing inclusive gender based analysis of dietary options are not welcome in Ottawa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, no evidence CBC published an article with that headline. Check Your Fact searched through CBC\u2019s website and found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/search?q=Truckers%20Free%20Food&amp;section=news&amp;sortOrder=relevance&amp;media=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no record<\/a> of it. It also does not appear on the company\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=truckers%20free%20food%20(from%3ACBC)&amp;src=recent_search_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cbcnews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> accounts.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/02\/fact-check-justin-trudeau-unvaccinated-citizens-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Justin Trudeau Call On Canadians To \u2018Make Life Difficult\u2019 For Unvaccinated Citizens In A Facebook Post?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a legitimate CBC article (about truckers being condemned for not offering gluten-free food options),\u201d said a CBC spokesperson in an email to Check Your Fact.<\/p>\n<p>No other Canadian news outlets, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/search\/?search_text=truckers+free+food\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa Citizen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/search-results\/search-ctv-news-7.137?q=truckers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CTV News<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/search\/?search_text=truckers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Post<\/a>, reported about Canadian truck drivers in Ottawa being condemned for not handing out gluten-free food.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the Canadian trucker protest, dubbed the \u201cFreedom Convoy,\u201d has sparked viral misinformation. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/08\/fact-check-brazil-trucks-canadian-convoy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> recently debunked a viral video that purportedly showed a line of trucks in Brazil demonstrating in support of the ongoing Canadian protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) news article that claims Canadian truckers who are giving away free food are being condemned \u201cfor not having &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}