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‘Time to defund’: Conservative MPs blast CBC for opting to not air Oilers semi-final victory

OTTAWA — The Edmonton Oilers punched their ticket to the Stanley Cup final on Sunday night but some Conservative politicians and mystified hockey fans weren’t in the mood to celebrate.

Instead of watching the game for free on the CBC, which has the rights to the playoffs, fans had to pony up for Sportsnet or miss the game entirely. Anyone tuning in to their local CBC channel was greeted with the Canadian Screen Awards, which was followed by a Just for Laughs comedy special.

CBC is not a national broadcaster, its audience is found in downtown Toronto and a couple of other urban deserts.

I had no idea there was such a thing as the “Canadian screen awards”.

Who are these people? I can’t ID a single one. I’m serious. Canadian “entertainment” is an unfunny transvestite lecturing about fake graves and Islamophobia.

Who?
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, CBC

CBC Executives Received $14.9 Million in Bonuses in 2023

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC, CBC Scandals

CBC chief says broadcaster isn’t making specific plans for loss of public subsidy

The head of the CBC says that while the public broadcaster must prepare for “all possible outcomes,” it doesn’t have a specific plan in the works for the possibility of a future Conservative government cancelling all or part of the Crown corporation’s public subsidy.

In an interview that airs Saturday on CBC Radio’s The House, CBC president and CEO Catherine Tait said she has been working on efforts to transform CBC/Radio-Canada into a more efficient and valuable service — but the specific prospect of defunding is not a focus of those efforts.

“Of course we worry about the possibility, but I don’t think that … spending a whole lot of time trying to guess what that will look like is really going to be effective over the next months. Our job is to convince Canadians of our value,” she told host Catherine Cullen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC, WTF?

CBC has whitewashed Israel’s crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand

Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster, I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine—and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out

The executive producer peered at me with concern. It was November 16, 2023 and I had been called into a virtual meeting at CBC. I was approaching my sixth year with the public broadcaster, where I worked as a producer in television and radio.

He said he could tell I was “passionate” about what was happening in Gaza. His job, he told me, was to ensure my passion wasn’t making me biased. He said I hadn’t “crossed the line” yet, but that I had to be careful. The conversation ended with him suggesting that I might want to go on mental health leave.

I declined. My mind was fine. I could see clearly what was happening.

One from the other side …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", CBC

Panel Advising Heritage Minister on Future of CBC Dominated by CBC Veterans

Seven people have been chosen to advise Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge as she examines the role of the CBC/Radio-Canada. Despite their varied current roles, most are veterans of the CBC itself.

The seven-member panel of media experts, including four with experience at the CBC, will meet regularly with Ms. St-Onge to discuss “a range of questions dealing with funding, governance and mandate” as she examines the role of Canada’s public broadcaster, the ministry said in a May 13 release.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC

CBC … No deviants left without a platform

Polyamorous relationships are on the rise in Canada. The law is still catching up

You can have more than one friend at a time. You can love multiple family members equally.

So what’s the difference if you’re in a meaningful, consensual romantic relationship with more than one person at once? That’s the general philosophy behind polyamorous relationships, and a new report says they’re on the rise.

Steph Davidson, 41, a publicist in Toronto, said not only is she seeing more polyamorous people in her circles and on dating apps, but there’s a wider social acceptance and understanding.

Remember how well those Hippy communes worked out? Next up Sharia law.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC, WTF?

CBC getting $42-million in budget after warnings of job cuts

The CBC is gaining $42-million in the budget to help support its programming after declining advertising and subscription revenues, and warnings last year of looming job cuts.

The public broadcaster signalled last December that it may have to cut 800 jobs to address a $125-million projected shortfall for the fiscal year.

Catherine Tait, chief executive officer and president of CBC/Radio-Canada, prompted an outcry when, on the day the broadcaster announced the possible job cuts, she told its newscast that it was too early to say if executive bonuses would be cut.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, CBC, WTF?

Rachael Thomas: CBC ruthlessly cuts jobs as executives take $15 million in bonuses

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

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC, CBC Scandals

Poilievre mean to journalists says CBC

Could be twins, at least on spiritual plain says CBC

What, if anything, should voters make of Pierre Poilievre’s attitude toward journalists?

What should voters make of Pierre Poilievre’s criticism of journalists?

All politicians disagree from time to time with the way they’re depicted by journalists. Any number of them have been vocal about it, publicly or privately. (The late Brian Mulroney, who has been fondly remembered over the past week, was known to harangue journalists on the phone when he disagreed with their coverage.) Sometimes their complaints have been justified.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Government Owned News Media, CBC, Conservative Party

CBC stars speak their minds on the spectre of cuts at the public broadcaster, exec bonuses

… Joseph Kay, creator of CTV’s hit procedural “Transplant” and showrunner of CBC’s 2015 drama “This Life,” worried about what the broadcaster’s cuts will mean for the future of original programming in Canada.

“You look at a show like ’Sort Of.’ Would a great show like that be bought by any other network in Canada? I’m not sure.’” he said of the series, starring Bilal Baig, who CBC touted as the first queer South Asian and Muslim actor to lead a Canadian prime time television series.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, CBC, WTF?

Liberal Party adds funding to CBC propaganda broadcaster: Tax payers now on hook for $1.4B budget

Ottawa adds funding to CBC; broadcaster will get $1.4B budget

OTTAWA – Canada’s public broadcaster is getting an increase in funding, despite executives insisting that a request to cut CBC/Radio-Canada’s budget for the next fiscal year was one reason they announced layoffs for 10 per cent of staff.

Documents Canadian Heritage released on Thursday show CBC will get a $1.4-billion budget in 2024-25, an increase from the $1.3 billion it spent in the previous fiscal year.

It’s about a $90-million increase, documents say.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, CBC, WTF?

CBC lawsuit against Conservatives cost $400K, but cost was shielded from Parliament for years

OTTAWA – CBC’s failed lawsuit against the Conservative party during the 2019 election cost nearly $400,000 — but that information was kept from Parliament for nearly three years.

Now, Don Plett, the Conservative leader in the Senate, is raising concerns about transparency in the federal government after his office was forced to file an access-to-information request to obtain an answer to his questions on the cost of the lawsuit submitted in the upper chamber in 2021.

h/t DS

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