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This chapter examines the concepts of mistrust, news habits, and attitudes toward social and health measures associated with Covid-19 crisis. The aim is to assess how beliefs in fake news and conspiracy theories impact the reaction of the Canadian population to the coronavirus pandemic. The analyses presented in this chapter aim to answer specific research questions who want (1) to investigate to what extent the pandemic-related conspiracy theories and fake news permeated the beliefs of Canadians;(2) to find the socio-demographic characteristics of the Canadian who subscribes to pandemic-related conspiracy theories and fake news;(3) to bring out the types of information sources used by the Canadians who subscribes to pandemic-related conspiracy theories and fake news;and (4) to reveal the social attitudes of the Canadian who subscribes to pandemic-related conspiracy theories and fake news. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023. All rights reserved.