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The Canadian government censored the news right through World War II for two main reasons: to keep military and economic secrets out of enemy hands and to prevent civilian morale from breaking down. But in those tumultuous times – with Nazi spies landing on our shores by raft, U-boat attacks within the St. Lawrence, army mutinies in British Columbia and Ontario and pro-Hitler propaganda within the mainstream Quebec press – censors had a hard time keeping news events contained.
Now, with freshly unsealed World War II press-censor files, a number of the undocumented events that occurred in wartime Canada are in any case revealed. In Mark Bourrie‘s illuminating and well-researched account, we learn in regards to the capture of a Nazi spy-turned-double agent, the Japanese-Canadian editor who would someday assist develop Canada’s medicare system, the curious chiropractor from Saskatchewan who spilled atomic bomb secrets to a roomful of people and using censorship to stop balloon bomb attacks from Japan. The Fog of War investigates the realities of media censorship in the course of the experiences of those deputized to act on behalf of the public and reveals why press censorship in wartime Canada was once, at best, a hit-and-miss game.
Now, with freshly unsealed World War II press-censor files, a number of the undocumented events that occurred in wartime Canada are in any case revealed. In Mark Bourrie‘s illuminating and well-researched account, we learn in regards to the capture of a Nazi spy-turned-double agent, the Japanese-Canadian editor who would someday assist develop Canada’s medicare system, the curious chiropractor from Saskatchewan who spilled atomic bomb secrets to a roomful of people and using censorship to stop balloon bomb attacks from Japan. The Fog of War investigates the realities of media censorship in the course of the experiences of those deputized to act on behalf of the public and reveals why press censorship in wartime Canada was once, at best, a hit-and-miss game.
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