Video depicting Caledon, Ont. shooting originated in the U.S., OPP say - BERITAJA

Ontario Provincial Police opportunity a video circulating online that appears to show personification shooting a weapon successful Caledon didn’t hap successful Canada astatine all.

The OPP said Monday the video, which depicts a man firing a handgun aggregate times successful a agrarian area, originated successful the United States.

“The OPP Criminal Investigation Branch has reviewed the video and investigated its origin. Investigators person wished that the video did not hap successful Caledon aliases anyplace wrong Ontario aliases Canada. The video has been confirmed to person originated successful the United States,” constabulary said.

“The OPP reminds the nationalist to beryllium cautious erstwhile sharing unverified contented connected societal media, arsenic it could lend to misinformation and unnecessary interest wrong the community.”

The OPP’s informing comes aft Statistics Canada said past month 80 per cent of Canadians consciousness they’re seeing “misleading, false, aliases inaccurate” accusation online astatine slightest erstwhile a month.

The agency’s Insights connected Canadian Society study, released May 13, examined the “sources and platforms done which Canadians entree news aliases information, really often they study encountering misleading information,” and whether Canadians find it “increasingly difficult to separate betwixt existent and mendacious information.”

The study besides examined the narration betwixt misinformation, assurance successful the Canadian media and spot successful others.

Sixty-one per cent of Canadians reported being “very concerned” aliases “extremely concerned” about online misinformation in 2025, and 47 per cent recovered it “harder to separate betwixt existent and mendacious news aliases information” compared to 3 years prior.

Canadians besides reported that they trust connected different news sources and a “similar proportionality of Canadians of each ages reported difficulties successful telling truth from falsehood.”

The study indicated Canadians about typically obtained news aliases accusation from news organizations (66 per cent), adjacent contacts (62 per cent), societal media platforms (54 per cent) and tv programming (52 per cent).

However, immoderate accepted accusation sources, specified arsenic power (38 per cent) and people media (21 per cent), were little often reported.

More than three-quarters of Canadians aged 75 years and older (78 per cent) relied connected news organizations to person information, compared pinch adjacent to half (49 per cent) of Canadians aged 15 to 24.

Among Canadians nether 35, societal media was the about communal root for news aliases accusation astatine 78 per cent. Its usage dropped to 19 per cent among those 75 and older.

— pinch files from BERITAJA’ Adriana Fallico