The host of the Canadaland podcast apologized to the mother of Marc and Craig Kielburger in court this morning as part of a settlement in a defamation lawsuit that centred on an episode from five years ago.
Jesse Brown told a Toronto courtroom that Canadaland “wholly retracts” comments regarding Theresa Kielburger’s alleged handling of donations made to the WE Organization in the 1990s, before the organization was registered as a charity.
Brown said the allegation that Kielburger deposited hundreds of thousands of dollars to a family bank account was “unfounded,” and apologized for the harm caused by its inclusion in the 2021 episode titled “The Children’s Crusade.”…