This is even weirder than the Masters of the Universe cartoon episode where the hero, He-Man, teamed up with the villain, Skeletor, to save Christmas.
The CBC doled out$18.4 million in bonuses. Meanwhile, the state broadcaster was also threatening to eliminate some positions just before Christmas.
And that has even its “friends” upset.
The number of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) employees earning six-figure salaries has skyrocketed by 231% since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took office, according to recent data obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).
In 2023, 1,450 CBC staff members earned more than $100,000 annually, a dramatic increase from 2015 when only 438 employees took home six-figure salaries.
If you go to the CBC website and search “far right,” you get 2,457 hits. If you search “far left,” you get 219, less than nine per cent that number.
Incidentally, you get exactly the same totals if you use a hyphen, i.e., “far-right” and “far-left,” which means the CBC search engine is hyphen-blind — though I doubt it’s any other kind of blind, given the corporation’s devotion to identity politics. If you search “far out,” by the way, you get 329 hits, 50 per cent more than for “far left.”
CBC executives received a combined $14.9 million in bonuses for fiscal year 2023, even as the broadcaster laid off 141 employees and CEO Catherine Tait said the organization was suffering financial hardship, according to documents submitted to the House of Commons.
All 46 network executives received bonuses, for a combined $3,020,021, the CBC wrote in response to an Inquiry of Ministry, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. Another 1,140 managers, or 99 percent of those on payroll, also received bonuses, worth a combined $11,883,734.
Canadians have never paid so much for so little. We see it every day as the cost of government goes up, driving up the cost of everything else, while service levels go down. The same is true of our public broadcaster, the CBC.
Last December, CBC’s CEO Catherine Tait told Canadians she would be slashing 800 positions (200 of which were vacant to begin with), sending 600 people to the unemployment line during an affordability crisis. She just couldn’t afford them, despite the $1 billion or more in taxpayer dollars they receive every year.
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA — The Conservative critic for Canadian Heritage is accusing CBC of being “on the side of terrorists” after an internal memo from the public broadcaster asked its journalists to refrain from using the term “terrorist” to describe Hamas in their coverage.
Poilievre not saying whether he’ll support ban on medical interventions for trans minors
Conservative Party members may have voted clearly in favour of banning medical interventions for transgender youth, but party leader Pierre Poilievre still isn’t saying whether he thinks the policy should become law.
While visiting Nanaimo, B.C. on Tuesday, Poilievre made his first public comments on the proposal since this past weekend’s Conservative Party policy convention.
He was asked specifically whether he supports the ban.
In a normal country the police would be investigating the diddlers at CBC.
Access to Information records shows the CBC now has 144 corporate directors getting paid six-figure salaries, averaging $135,388 excluding bonuses and expenses, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
WTF?
Foreign interference means Canada should get serious on media literacy, advocate says
And who is that advocate? MediaSmarts, a child sexual mutilation proponent.
CBC is a morally diseased culture. Children should be shielded from it’s propaganda.
Christian conservative groups recruiting thousands to back Higgs
Christian conservative groups rallying support for New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs now have enough signatures to be a decisive factor in any leadership review vote.
Two groups rallying support for the embattled Progressive Conservative leader have flexed their muscles in the last month, gathering enough names to swing the vote in his favour.
“A lot of times it’s hundreds or even dozens of people that can make a difference in some of these elections,” said Faytene Grasseschi, who runs the group 4 My Canada from Quispamsis, outside Saint John.
CBC News cried “uncle” yesterday in its long-running quarrel with Alberta premier Danielle Smith, as you may have read in your National Post . In January, a story from the network claimed that some member of the new premier’s staff had sent emails directly to Crown prosecutors ordering them to let up on COVID rulebreakers. This created a nasty suspicion that the premier’s office was interfering directly in individual criminal prosecutions, and it rightly led to an investigation by the province’s ethics commissioner, Marguerite Trussler. In the meantime, the CBC stood stubbornly behind its story.
Inside the fundamentalist Christian movement that wants to remake Canadian politics
Internal document reveals ambitions of anti-LGBTQ group that is part of populist movement
On a recent Sunday morning in Waterloo, Ont., pastor Jacob Reaume gripped a lectern and issued a warning to his congregation.
“A Christless existence leads to the dark, hopeless abyss of death,” he told around 200 people at Trinity Bible Chapel, an evangelical church on the outskirts of the city.
Much of the sermon, delivered last December, was devoted to a trans student at a Christian university in nearby Hamilton who had died by suicide a few weeks earlier.
“If you’re going to live a lie to the point where you’re willing to mutilate your own body, it’s going to send you into dark despair,” Reaume said.
Of course the nations public broadcaster is firmly on the side of child sexual mutilation fetishists.
The CBC should have a special trial at Nuremburg 2.0.
Is a sit-down conversation with young children and drag performers in a classroom another step to “normalize” what was once considered an alternative lifestyle?
For those of us who have worked in the Canadian creative sector for decades, it is profoundly worrisome to witness the attacks on Catherine Tait, the president and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, for defending the CBC’s existence.
Over the course of her five-year tenure, Tait has worked tirelessly to defend the role of the public broadcaster, strengthen its relevancy to all Canadians and expand the accessibility of its programming.
During an era of massive global disruption and a plethora of choices on how and where content can be consumed, Tait’s leadership has provided audiences with stories that entertain, resonate, and connect all Canadians.
Contrary to the Ceeb’s degenerate worldview Child abuse is not a “Canadian story” anyone should be proud of but I suspect the pedophile demographic is the only audience segment the CBC leads in.
Why does working in the “creative sector” always seems to lead back to tax payer dollars. Funny that.
The CBC’s coverage of the China interference scandal has often been questionable and partisan. Though its unsurprising that the organization has chosen to act, yet again, as the Liberals’ state-funded PR wing, its recent decision to platform an apologist for Beijing’s genocide against the Uyghurs is a new low.
