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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
I don’t care what CBC President Catherine Tait calls them. It doesn’t matter whether she approves the corporation’s executive bonuses or they’re set by some klatch of fairies dancing in a forest under the full moon.
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.
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.
The CBC got another cash infusion from the Trudeau government and treated itself to a fresh round of bonuses.
Cabinet documents show the government boosted the state broadcaster’s budget by $96 million, bringing annual funding to more than $1.4 billion.
