Satirical Website To Pay $24K

The publisher of a parody website lampooning what claims to be one of Canada’s best-read newspapers has been ordered to pay $23,532 in damages. Satirists explained readers would have to be “dyslexic or illiterate” to confuse Le Journal de Montréal with its comic counterpart Journal de Mourréal (Mourreal’s Diary): “Its not up to us to take readers by the hand.”

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