There is nothing to this at all-no breach of rules or ethics, its just smears and innuendo. The Globe seems to be specializing in this kind of writing lately. It similar to the far right blog spots that tipped the American election-you can write anything and if it panders a target  audience who dont check to see what it actually  says as long as it aligns with their biases.

The Globe and Mail more and more resembles those blogs and less and less a paper with the rigor one would expect -lets just say its not going to give the NYTimes a run for its money any time soon.

I am surprised Robert Fife  lends his name to this sort "reporting".