Don Macpherson: Falsehoods and their consequences

“Lie, lie, something will always remain,” the 18th-century French writer Voltaire is supposed to have said.
Here in the part of the world that Voltaire dismissed as “a few acres of snow,” we have recently seen a demonstration of that saying.
Two weeks ago, Quebecor’s TVA television network falsely reported that an agreement on construction work outside two Montreal mosques said “in black and white” that female workers were not to be on the site duri