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LETTER: ‘Fake news’ fools Fairwinds folks

Recently the property owners of the Fairwinds Estates in Nanoose Bay distributed their first community publication, called Passions .
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Recently the property owners of the Fairwinds Estates in Nanoose Bay distributed their first community publication, called Passions.

Generally, it is a well-written magazine highlighting a number of initiatives being planned for the Fairwinds community. To provide some levity, I assume, one of the articles described their plans to consider establishing a small, non-native animal zoo in the community.

Most who read the article could clearly see that, with an April “tsrif” (“first” spelled backwards) footer, it was a hoax. However, a few did not actually catch on right away, thus resulting in a social media/Facebook buzz in Nanoose Bay on the appropriateness of zoos and introducing non-native animals into our ecosystem.

This reaction caused me to sit back and wonder, why was this hoax article written and published in the first place?

Given the heated debate over non-indigenous Atlantic Salmon threatening our native salmon, some Vancouver Islanders might not consider this hoax article all that humorous or appropriate.

Maybe in the future the editor of the Passions magazine will first consider its audience before publishing another “fake news” hoax.

Chris Price

Nanoose Bay