OTTAWA — The push to axe funding to CBC “has picked up momentum” especially when it comes to television, its CEO and president warned in a private email earlier this year.
In the January email from Catherine Tait, obtained through an access-to-information request, the CBC president asked two people to volunteer for a committee being set up by the heritage minister to develop a government plan for CBC/Radio-Canada.
Outgoing CBC/Radio-Canada CEO Catherine Tait said this week that dismantling the nearly 90-year-old public broadcaster would be “absolutely tragic” and politicians like Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre should think twice before torpedoing something so closely linked to Canada’s “cultural fabric.”
But Tait acknowledged the company has work to do to rebuild trust among Canadians who have become leery of the public broadcaster and its programming.
Tait said that, as she approaches the end of her six-years-plus tenure at CBC in January, her biggest source of regret is the erosion of trust in the broadcaster among some people.
No one is going to miss the pedophile network, except pedophiles.
After a months-long review of CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is expected to announce changes meant to modernize the public broadcaster sometime over the next four weeks.
A senior government official told CBC News the government is in the final stages of drafting what could be major legislative and regulatory changes to better position the company for the future as it grapples with seismic developments in the news and broadcasting space.
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!
OTTAWA — Costs for the seven-person panel struck to advise modernization efforts for Canada’s national broadcaster have now exceeded $200,000 with more money expected to be spent, according to a note from a government department.
Justin Trudeau’s Heritage Minister, Pascale St. Onge says Canadians love CBC and it’s only Pierre Poilievre who doesn’t like it.
But CBC’s ratings, which have been falling for years, tell a very different story.
St. Onge posted a video to social media defending CBC, which won’t help the perception that when it comes to politics, CBC is the network of the Liberal Party.
CBC, let’s talk about it. pic.twitter.com/KaXsfELhAJ
— Pascale St-Onge (@PascaleStOnge_) September 12, 2024
Dr. Jordan Peterson has pointed out that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which receives over a billion dollars in taxpayer funds each year, has garnered less than 100 viewers on its last 19 videos, and therefore believes it should be defunded.
In an August 31 post on X, Peterson, a best-selling Canadian author and clinical psychologist, implied that that the CBC is massively overfunded considering its dismal engagement numbers with the public.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and CBC CEO Catherine Tait are trading barbs about the continued relevance of the CBC. Among its fans, and even some foes, there’s much hand-wringing about Poilievre’s threat to shut down the English-language arm of the public broadcaster.
“I think the Conservative party has a lot of very valid criticisms of the CBC as it now stands,” nods the soft-spoken media stalwart Kenneth Whyte in a recent conversation. “And there are many more criticisms that you could make of the CBC beyond Pierre Poilievre’s concerns, which are mostly ideological.”
Multiple political conventions have happened across North America in the last one-and-a-half years, and journalists have been busy covering them.
But while The National, CBC’s flagship program during the nightly news devoted loads of coverage to US conventions while mere minutes to Canadian ones.
I don’t watch their coverage because of CBC’S TDS and its knee-jerk anti-Americanism.
Money woes, harassment pose barriers to diversifying Ont. politics, study finds
New research is highlighting harassment and a lack of financial resources as two common barriers for diverse candidates in Ontario municipal politics.
Titled Mapping the Experiences of Diverse Candidates Running for Municipal Office in Ontario, the project was commissioned by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) and released during their annual conference in Ottawa earlier this month.
Its results were compiled from a mix of approaches, including interviews, survey responses and focus groups. There were a total of 118 participants.
Apparently we should be footing the bill for “minority candidates.”
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.
OTTAWA – The Liberal government is refusing to say if it approved a bonus for the head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., as Opposition Conservatives demand answers and New Democrats call for a ban on bonuses.
It is up to the federal government to approve a bonus for Catherine Tait following a review of her performance and recommendation by the board of directors at CBC/Radio-Canada.
CBC deferred questions to the federal government. Canadian Heritage, which oversees the Crown corporation, then deferred questions to the Privy Council Office, which supports cabinet and the prime minister.
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.
OTTAWA – The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. paid $18.4 million in bonuses this year after hundreds of jobs at the public broadcaster were eliminated.
Documents obtained through access to information laws show CBC/Radio-Canada paid out bonuses to 1,194 employees for the 2023-24 fiscal year.
More than $3.3 million of that was paid to 45 executives.
That means those executives got an average bonus of over $73,000, which is more than the median family income after taxes in 2022, according to Statistics Canada.
CBC is welfare for the connected.
Somewhere between streaming hours of water polo and puzzling out the nuances of the kayaking obstacle course, I realized I was witnessing a miracle.
As a wizened man of 36, I am old enough to remember when Olympic coverage consisted of turning on the TV and hoping something interesting was being broadcast. Now, thanks to CBC Gem, every sport, from boxing to break dancing, can be consumed free and on demand at your leisure.
A tax payer boondoggle paying for TV rights to an even bigger boondoggle. Honestly I have not watched more than a few Twitter clips.
