The president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada filed for expenses of more than $119,000 at a time when she complained to the government about the broadcaster’s financial woes, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
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GUNTER: CBC floundering while executives reap bonuses
In her testimony at the House of Commons Heritage Committee on Tuesday, CBC President Catherine Tait — the haughty, detached, condescending Marie Antoinette of the Laurentian elite — unleashed two clangers that cannot go unanswered.
I look at her and think maybe that Icke guy is right about the Lizard people.
SNOBELEN: CBC boss demonstrates need for more accountability
Well, buckaroos, I think it’s time to rise to the defence of embattled CBC CEO Catherine Tait. Heck, somebody should.
Tait’s recent appearance before the heritage committee was a heroic attempt to inform us, the unwashed. She managed, in a brief appearance, to establish that the CBC is underfunded and that she, as the CEO of CBC, is accountable for nothing.
CBC president Catherine Tait had her own Harvard moment
There was a point during CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait’s testimony this week, before a House of Commons committee, when you just had to wonder whether she had been coached beforehand by Claudine Gay in how to come off as hopelessly disconnected and obtuse.
Ms. Gay, you’ll remember, is the now ex-head of Harvard University, whose December testimony before a U.S. congressional committee into antisemitism on campus was a mixture of hubris and contempt for politicians she should have known better than to disrespect. Her appearance went viral and set off a chain reaction that led to her resignation a few weeks later.
Ottawa denies it told CBC to cut 3.3 per cent of its budget, as executives claimed
OTTAWA – The federal Liberal government is denying that it told CBC/Radio-Canada to cut its budget by 3.3 per cent, despite executives with the public broadcaster insisting that’s part of the reason they’re laying off 10 per cent of their workforce.
The Treasury Board, which oversees spending in the federal budget, said that no such directive was given to the public broadcaster.
“Whatever Radio-Canada and CBC is doing is their decision,” the office of the Treasury Board president, Anita Anand, told The Canadian Press on Wednesday.
I don’t believe a thing either side says.
‘Embarrassing’: MPs react to Catherine Tait’s refusal to rule out bonuses amid CBC job cuts
OTTAWA — Federal politicians condemned CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Catherine Tait’s refusal to rule out bonuses for executives this year despite plans to cut 10 per cent of the national broadcaster’s workforce.
CBC head Catherine Tait tells MPs it’s not her decision if she gets ‘a bonus or not’
OTTAWA – Millions in bonuses have still not been ruled out for CBC/Radio-Canada’s executives despite hundreds of job cuts planned in the English and French services.
The head of the public broadcaster, Catherine Tait, told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that the board of directors will rule by the end of the fiscal year, on March 31, whether executives will receive compensation which she called “performance pay.”
CBC CEO Catherine Tait claims the public broadcaster remains “the single most effective tool” that Canadians have to combat disinformation.
Is she for real? In the last 2 years more than 100 correction notices were issued w/ regards to stories put out by the CBC. pic.twitter.com/rWy17vlCZb
— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) January 31, 2024
Tucker just dared CBC News to come interview him
Omg – Tucker just dared CBC News to come interview him after the show.
What will they do? https://t.co/HMxNfPTD0o
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) January 24, 2024
Colby Cosh: CBC finds its purpose — exposing the national shopping cart crisis
EDMONTON — Over the holidays, the federal government informed us that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is in for a “redefinition” of its purpose and mandate. Don’t worry, CBC-lovers: it’s clear enough that there’s no immediate threat of change. The heritage minister, in promising to consult Canadians on why we might need such a thing as a CBC, managed to confirm that she likes it just the way it is. And sometimes we feel the same way. Only an abundantly resourced public broadcaster with tendrils in every community could produce anything like CBC News’s panoramic vision of an overlooked national problem with abandoned shopping carts.
Heritage minister says she’d like CBC’s mandate updated to include more stuff no one will watch
Heritage minister says she’d like CBC’s mandate updated to include strong online presence, fill info gaps
Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge says she wants the role of public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada redefined before the next federal election.
In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, St-Onge said now is the time to update its mandate, to hedge against a possible change in government.
She said the Liberal government believes a strong public broadcaster strengthens democracy and promises to keep supporting it, adding she believes a Conservative government would destroy it.
CBC to skip New Year’s Eve broadcast special due to ‘financial pressures’
New Year’s Eve will look much different this year on CBC-TV.
Canada’s public broadcaster tells The Canadian Press that “financial pressures” have led the network to cancel this year’s countdown, which inched towards midnight with musical performances and a fireworks show.
This year, CBC plans to air a new “Just For Laughs” special hosted by comedian Mae Martin at 11 p.m. in most markets, followed by episodes of “Comedy Night with Rick Mercer” as the new year rolls in. The programs will also stream on CBC Gem.
They must need the money for Exec bonuses.
MAKICHUK: Why Chantal and the CBC must go
There she is. Once again.
Pontificating, on the CBC political panel.
Chantal What’s-her-name?
They drag her out of somewhere, God knows where, when they need a Laurentian elite to say stuff. Even if she doesn’t have a single clue what she’s talking about. Even if she hasn’t talked to the principals involved, such as Western experts or politicians.
h/t Mauser
CBC blames teleprompter error for ‘Israel started the Hamas war’ statement
Guest host J.P. Tasker made the statement during a recent episode of CBC’s Power & Politics, a weekday show that focuses on national politics.
In responding to a clip from the show shared on X, Power & Politics said the statement was the result of “a teleprompter glitch that cut off part of the prepared script.”
It added that the script read: “‘That’s just the latest protest taking place in Canada, since Israel declared war on Hamas following the October attacks that left 12-hundred dead.’ The error was not intentional.”
“Since Israel started the Hamas war”
I beg your pardon?
No wonder @JustinTrudeau ‘s Canada is now seen as the most Anti-Jewish western country right now.pic.twitter.com/6WVJkEQqE4
— Kosher Cockney (@KosherCockney) December 22, 2023
CBC TV Ad Revenue Fell 16 Percent in First Half of 2023, With No End in Sight
CBC’s TV ad revenue dipped nearly 16 percent in the first half of 2023, according to the government-funded broadcaster’s newly released second-quarter financial report.
CEO Catherine Tait made no mention of the Crown broadcaster’s decrease in advertising dollars during her Nov. 2 testimony before the House of Commons heritage committee.
As CBC layoffs loom, ‘inappropriate’ bonuses in centre stage. How much are they?
Amid plans by CBC to cut 10 per cent of its workforce, the House of Commons heritage committee on Tuesday said it would be “inappropriate for the CBC to grant bonuses to executive members.”
That comes after the committee last week called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s president and CEO Catherine Tait — who could make more than $120,000 in bonuses on top of her six-figure salary, according to CBC documents — to appear as a witness in the new year.