Headlines on CBC News articles about Indigenous Peoples are now almost entirely quotation marks, a practice that has been gradually phased in over the past several years.
“It started with putting the word racist or offensive in quotations but next thing I knew, almost the entire headline was quotation marks,” said Candis Acoose, a reader from Saskatchewan.
“What the heck is up with that, anyway?”
Although CBC wouldn’t comment on why their headlines have so many quotation marks, analysts believe it’s a reaction to an incident in March 2018 when a Thunder Bay reporter burst into flames after his editor published the word racism as is.