CBC called out for role in prank interviews of Kamloops residential school grave critics (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbc-hoax-interview-kamloops-9.7198349)
QuoteTwo women say they were targeted by a CBC- and APTN-produced comedy series that conducted prank interviews with people who have expressed controversial opinions about Canada's residential schools.
Frances Widdowson and Lindsay Shepherd, two public figures who have been critical of the coverage of possible unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site in B.C., shared social media posts this week detailing how they say they were tricked into prank interviews.
"[For] the CBC to participate in that, I think, is disgraceful," Widdowson told CBC News in an interview from Calgary.
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