A leaked audio recording of an internal CBC disciplinary meeting for a national news anchor reveals the public broadcaster’s tension over its policies on journalistic standards and freedom clashing with protecting its corporate image.
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The Grooming Gang at CBC is upset that some guy can’t be on a girl’s baseball team
Girls’ softball was an inclusive sport in Alberta. For this teen, a new law could end that
Riley Simpson has been playing softball since they were nine years old. They fell in love with the sport after watching their older sister play.
In June, their softball team won the Edmonton city championship and Riley was hoping to play on higher-level teams as they grew and got better.
In Alberta, where Riley is from, most competitive softball teams are girls’ teams. This has never been a problem for Riley, who recently turned 15 years old and is non-binary, thanks to inclusive sporting policies, a co-ed mentality in softball and pre-puberty androgyny.
CBC is a pedophile grooming gang.
Matthew Lau: CBC’s very balanced reporting of just one point of view
If you are looking for solid analysis and balanced reporting on climate change and climate policy, you are unlikely to get it from CBC News. See, for example, a story last week on Ontario’s climate targets. Internal documents from the public service project Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions will be around 145 megatonnes in 2030, depending on industry actions and other factors. If the projection holds, the province would miss its target to reduce emissions to 142 megatonnes by 2030. The environment minister, appearing to contradict these projections, said on June 5th that the Progressive Conservative government’s plan “is working” and that the province was in fact on track to hit its targets.
SIMS: CBC looking more and more like a semi-official news agency
In the middle of the election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to pay the CBC more money, waving around about $150 million in fresh taxpayer cash.
CBC covered that big scoop, with a headline calling the CBC “underfunded.”
Think about that scene.
FUSS: CBC ‘fact-checker’ gets his facts wrong
At all times, during an election period and beyond, the media must report accurate information and, when necessary, correct the record. For example, following the English-language federal leaders’ debate on April 17, CBC reporter Jonathon Gatehouse appeared on CBC News and “fact-checked” a statement by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who had referenced a study published by the Fraser Institute. Unfortunately, during the segment, Gatehouse got his facts wrong.
That’s the CBC’s job.
Terry Newman: On election night, CBC shamelessly cheered on Mark Carney
During election night coverage, some CBC pundits dropped much of the pretense of impartiality as soon as an “at least Liberal minority” was predicted shortly after 10 p.m. ET. At this point, the national broadcaster’s hosts and commentators could breathe a sigh of relief that they wouldn’t be delivering their own eulogy.
Carney pledges $150M of your money to buy fealty with ‘underfunded’ CBC
Liberal Leader Mark Carney said on Friday that his government would provide an initial $150-million annual funding increase to CBC and Radio-Canada as part of a new mandate for the public broadcaster.
“When we compare ourselves to the U.K., France or Germany, we see that our public broadcaster is underfunded,” Carney said in French during a campaign stop in Montreal. “That has to change.”
That initial funding top-up could rise, Carney said.
Sorry CBC but my “cultural identity” does not include funding child porn.
New CBC boss wants ’national conversation’ on Conservatives’ vow to defund the public broadcaster
OTTAWA — With U.S. President Donald Trump making “territorial claims,” the new head of CBC says defunding the public broadcaster could erode a pillar of Canada’s cultural identity.
Marie-Philippe Bouchard, CEO of CBC-Radio-Canada, is calling for a “national conversation” on the Conservative promise to defund, and is launching a tour to get it started.
CBC executives frustrated by media coverage of $14.9 million executive bonuses
CBC’s senior management expressed frustration with media coverage of its $14.9 million in executive bonuses, according to internal emails obtained through Access to Information requests by Blacklock’s Reporter.
CBC executives complained that other news media published details about the bonuses without giving the public broadcaster adequate time to respond, even as the corporation implemented widespread job cuts and claimed financial difficulties.
CBC CEO says she’s ‘entitled’ bonus amid declining viewership and job cuts
Catherine Tait, CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Monday that she is “entitled” to a performance bonus, despite overseeing a tenure marked by significant challenges at the taxpayer-funded broadcaster.
How many CBC employees make over a half-million per year?
That's how much Trudeau's CBC CEO makes.
Tait just testified that several CBC executives make this kind of money, because of taxpayer-funded bonuses. pic.twitter.com/ileaHTMVFk
— Jamil Jivani (@jamiljivani) November 25, 2024
Jesse Kline: Even Catherine Tait doesn’t know why we need the CBC
The CBC has always seemed like a novel scam, whereby Ottawa takes our hard-earned money and uses it to sell us on the benefits of more socialism.
But when news broke over the summer that the public broadcaster doled out $18.4 million in bonuses last year, the same year in which it eliminated 141 jobs and went cap-in-hand to the Liberals asking for money to cover its $125-million shortfall, it became apparent that the CBC’s top brass could at best be described as champagne socialists — at worst, grifters who have grown fat gorging at the public trough.
Claiming a Paris vacay as a business expense justified by the ludicrous assertion that she had to be at the Olympics opening ceremonies is a new low in Liberal entitlement.
CBC president accuses MPs of trying to ‘vilify’ and ‘discredit’ her, defends executive bonuses
OTTAWA — The CEO and president of CBC/Radio-Canada says she believes members of the parliamentary heritage committee have been using her appearances to “vilify and to discredit” her, along with the public broadcaster as a whole, as she defended bonuses paid to executives.
Tait deftly accomplishes her own self-vilification. Just listen to this entitled nonsense justifying the tax payer picking up the tab for her Paris Vacay.
It was absolutely necessary for CBC’s Tait to be at the Olympics opening ceremony for reasons known only to herself. WTF? We used to call this chicanery abuse of expense accounts, a firing offence. https://t.co/ARIwACxHnA
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) October 22, 2024
h/t Mauser
CBC president Catherine Tait billed for $1,000-a-night hotel to attend Paris Olympics
OTTAWA – Outgoing CBC President Catherine Tait spent $6,000 — including staying at a $1,000-per-night hotel — for just under five days at the Paris Olympics, an expense observers say is sure to raise eyebrows but is ultimately justifiable.
According to a copy of Tait’s calendar obtained via an access-to-information request, Tait was in Paris from July 25 to 29. She arrived the day before the opening ceremony of the Paris Summer Olympic Games.
She had no reason to be there. It’s not as if she was running around with a Go-Pro live streaming the events back home.
CBC CEO faces scrutiny over executive bonuses amid job cuts and budget shortfalls
Catherine Tait, the $497,000-a-year CEO of the CBC, will appear before the Commons heritage committee on Monday to explain why senior managers received millions in bonuses while the broadcaster was cutting jobs and citing financial difficulties.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Tait herself receives an annual bonus of around 20%, or approximately $100,000, according to records.
Catherine Tait: This is why you need the CBC … you ignorant peasants
In 1998, Canada eliminated measles. The highly contagious and deadly disease was no longer spreading in the country, thanks to high vaccination rates.
Yet today, measles is again a public health problem, in no small part because of misinformation. As few as 30% of children have been vaccinated in some parts of Canada, and cases are on the rise. Clinicians say it’s only a matter of time before more serious outbreaks occur. Europe is the canary in the coal mine — measles cases there rose from 900 in 2022 to 30,000 in 2023, an increase of more than 3000%.
The Covid vaccine tyranny is not the hill to die on Catherine.
And how does being Canada’s premier cheerleader for the Russia hoax and calling everything that isn’t left of Marx “extreme right wing” square with being a “reliable source”?
Not a word about the Ceeb having deteriorated into a child grooming cesspit of Liberal Party perversion and propaganda.
Just shut up and listen proles!