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Radio host rapped by CBSC for inciting violence

OTTAWA – A radio host who recommended vigilante justice in response to a news story about a controversial Twitter post was found to have breached the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC).On October 19, 2016, the morning show hosts of Énergie le matin on CKMF-FM (Énergie 94.3, Montreal) discussed a news story about a controversial tweet on Twitter.  Following the release of the book Les Superbes, which is about women who have risen to positions of power, a man posted a tweet referencing the killings at the École Polytechnique in Montreal and saying that with the...