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If Pierre Poilievre gets his way, the next Olympics might not be so fun to watch

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.

by Blazingcatfur•August 8, 2024August 8, 2024•0•CBC, WTF?

Poilievre ‘can’t wait’ to defund CBC, but that’s ‘recklessly threatening’ Canadians’ access to reliable information, say Liberals

Defenders of public broadcasting are sketching out their response to ongoing calls by Pierre Poilievre to “recklessly” defund the CBC, after the Conservative leader has been doubling down on that position in a recent social media post and at campaign-style rallies.

In an email to the The Hill Times, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge (Brome-Missisquoi, Que.) said that Canada needs “a strong public broadcaster that connects and informs us coast to coast to coast.” She said the government is reviewing the public broadcaster’s financing, governance, and mission with the goal of modernizing it, adding this “contrasts sharply” with the Conservative proposal to “defund and dismantle” an organization that “millions of Canadians count on.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 6, 2024August 5, 2024•0•CBC

Poilievre trashes CBC for mourning slain Hamas leader

CBC has given opposition leader Pierre Poilievre another reason to defund it.

Shortly after the head of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Tehran on Wednesday, a top CBC reporter was blasting whoever did it.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2024July 31, 2024•0•CBC

CBC Ombudsman cautions staff over social media posts

CBC employees should exercise caution when commenting on controversial news stories on Twitter, according to a network ombudsman.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the advisory follows a tweet by a CBC producer expressing sympathy for a Palestinian activist arrested for threatening to kill Jews and drink their blood.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2024July 22, 2024•0•CBC, WTF?

Canada braces for Trump 2.0 as the former president takes the lead in U.S. presidential race

Polls suggest former president Donald Trump is in a strong position to win back the presidency this November — a development that could have wide-ranging implications for Canada, given how tumultuous his first term was for this country.

Trump leads a united party despite sometimes intense opposition and criticism of his election denial and role in the January 6 insurrection attempt.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2024July 21, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, CBC, Trump Derangement Syndrome

GUNTER: Time to shut down the expensive, biased and out-of-touch CBC

On Monday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre posted on X that he “can’t wait to defund the CBC.”

Good for him.

Of course, Poilievre has promised before to yank taxpayers’ dollars — $1.4 billion a year — from the state broadcaster. (The CBC hates being called the “state” broadcaster. They prefer “public” broadcaster. But they act far more like toadies of the state than servants of the public.)

by Blazingcatfur•July 18, 2024July 18, 2024•0•CBC

CBC/Radio-Canada board approves bonuses for 2023-24, but will review practice

OTTAWA – The board of directors for CBC and Radio-Canada has approved bonuses for some staff, following a fiscal year that saw 141 employees let go, and another 205 vacant positions eliminated.

The decision was posted quietly on the public broadcaster’s website last month following a board of directors meeting.

A spokesman for CBC would not disclose how much money was doled out to the 1,194 eligible employees during the 2023-24 fiscal year, saying it’s internal information.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2024July 15, 2024•0•CBC

CBC approves new round of bonuses for executives and staff

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has approved future bonuses for its executives and non-unionized staff, according to the state broadcaster’s latest annual review.

This decision comes despite previous criticisms and recent job cuts.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2024July 9, 2024•0•CBC, WTF?

GIESBRECHT: Okay to fly the flag after all, CBC decides… no apology, though!

CBC is telling Canadians to joyfully celebrate Canada Day 2024

This stands in stark contrast to how they were telling Canadians to celebrate — or rather, how not to celebrate — Canada Day 2021. Canadians were told in 2021 that they must be ashamed of their past, and our “dark history” as evidenced by the “remains” of 215 children who had been “discovered” at Kamloops.

by Blazingcatfur•July 1, 2024July 1, 2024•0•"Residential School Mass Grave Mania", Canada, CBC, WTF?

William Watson: CBC obsesses over the far right. But what about the far left?

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.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2024June 20, 2024•0•CBC, CBC Scandals

‘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.

by Blazingcatfur•June 4, 2024June 4, 2024•0•Canada, 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.

by Blazingcatfur•May 30, 2024May 29, 2024•0•CBC, 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.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2024May 18, 2024•0•CBC, 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 …

by Blazingcatfur•May 17, 2024May 17, 2024•0•"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.

by Blazingcatfur•May 15, 2024May 14, 2024•0•CBC