Near the end of September, a series of videos were posted to social media that purported to show some familiar figures in Calgary’s political and legal worlds taking turns performing racist Indigenous caricatures. They would later claim those videos were fake. Experts say claims of falsity in situations like this are hard to prove because the technology is debatable, even unreliable and hints at a more significant problem to come.
In a Facebook post Friday, Calgary Ward 13 Coun. Dan McLean wrote that he is sincerely apologizing for ”mistakes in the past” after criticism followed a series of videos posted to social media that purport to involve him participating in racist mocking of Indigenous people.