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Earlier this week, the Canadian taxpayer found out that they were supporting, with their hard-earned money, an organization that wouldn’t call the deadliest terror attack in human history “terrorism.”

Americans found out about it, too, and they were pretty unhappy — especially since we’re approaching the 25th anniversary of the attacks and our neighbors to the north were telling reporters with their national broadcaster that 9/11 was a situation where “hijackings led to passenger jet crashes.”

Now, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reversing course and calling terror attacks “terrorism.” All it took was international outrage and the United States ambassador to Canada saying the language “significantly endangers our efforts to establish and harmonize a shared national and economic security partnership.”

The whole to-do began when a memo from Basem Boshra, the “Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust” was reported by a columnist in the Toronto Sun.

(I will to put quotation marks around Boshra’s title because it’s about as true as my self-appointed title as “Starting Quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles,” except Boshra apparently takes it seriously and receives money for it.)

In it, he described the CBC’s standards regarding 9/11 reporting.

“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks,” he wrote, apparently in bold italics. Instead, reporters were supposed to say that “[t]he hijackings led to passenger jet crashes.”

“CBC’s longstanding language guidance regarding the terms ‘terrorist’ and ‘terrorism’ is a preference for the use of these words with attribution, a practice shared by many of the world’s top journalistic organizations,” said CBC News spokeswoman Kerry Kelly.

“Our general manager and editor in chief has written publicly in the past on the........

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