When determining responsibility for the publication of an opinion by the editor of a news website, does the trier of fact have to consider the whole publication as a whole?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Casses v. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2015 BCSC 2150 (CanLII):
When determining responsibility, the trier of fact must consider the broad thrust of the publication as a whole rather than minutely parsing individual statements: see Quan v. Cusson, 2009 SCC 62, at para. 30.
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