For the umpteenth IWD in a row, the G&M ran a couple of articles that covered the "wage gap". The articles whined and bemoaned how bad the gap was in Canada, a PhD in a Canadian gender institute called our gap "outrageous", and clearly implied that we should be morally outraged over the fact it still exists in 2017.

Virtually every single commenter pointed out what economists have been pointing out for 30+ years, now: almost none of the gap can be attributed to discriminatory pay practices in Canadian companies, regardless of how heavily this was implied by the author or those quoted within. That women work differently than men do is not "outrageous".

Is this kind of article fake news? It's got a clear agenda, it's clearly misrepresenting reality, and it's clearly being forwarded by the G&M uncritically and without comment. Readers would, largely, just accept it at face value if they were not educated, would they not?

Selling ideology, not fact, is fake news, too.