Fact check: Debunking a 'totally nuts' conspiracy theory about UN troops in Canada

Tanya Vrebosch, deputy mayor of the Canadian city of North Bay, saw something strange when she checked her phone on Sunday: North Bay was a trending topic on her Twitter feed.

North Bay doesn’t do much trending – it’s a city of about 52,000 people in northern Ontario – so Vrebosch had a moment of intrigued anticipation, she told CNN on Monday. Were people tweeting, just maybe, about the city’s recent announcement that North Bay had set a new record for the value of its building construction?

Nope. Very much nope.

North Bay, Vrebosch learned, was “trending for something so stupid.” Specifically: a false