To the BBC:
Greetings
Yesterday was a very dark day for the Jewish people. Hundreds of armed terrorists penetrated from Gaza into the sovereign territory of the State of Israel, shot and murdered hundreds of defenseless people, women, children, old people and more.
These are war crimes and crimes against humanity.
We have just obtained what appears to be a leaked email written by CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp) employee George Achi instructing reporters to:
1. not to mention Gaza has not been occupied since 2005
2. not refer to Palestinian terrorists as terroristsIf true, this… pic.twitter.com/rqlhfm1clX
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 8, 2023
Reminder this is a long term policy …
Avoiding use of the word ‘terrorist’ and ‘terrorism’ has been CBC policy for its reporters for more than a decade, similar to many other media outlets.
CBC Policy:
Use of the word ‘terrorist’: April 15, 2011https://t.co/HkWRIWezes https://t.co/NPmUqnKt5U— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) October 8, 2023
Policy for a reason …
Only. Votes. Count. After Christianity, Islam was the second most commonly reported religion in Canada in 2021, with nearly 1.8 million, or 1 in 20, people. Approximately 335,000 people reported being Jewish in 2021. https://t.co/63wwPUJZOS
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) October 8, 2023
This past weekend, I was a guest on the CBC’s weekly call-in show, Cross Country Checkup, to discuss and debate the question: do we still need the CBC?
I was there in particular to make the case that the news media market has evolved over the past decades such that a public broadcaster of the size and scope of the CBC is no longer justified. Others argued in favour of preserving the CBC. And then there was a combination of callers and experts who found themselves somewhere in the middle.
An idea whose time has come.
The CBC owns nearly half a billion dollars in real estate holdings, according to recently released documents, with more than two-thirds of the value comprised of its expansive downtown Toronto broadcasting centre.
A response to a May 2023 order paper question submitted by Conservative MP Adam Chambers about the government-owned broadcaster lists 12 corporation-owned properties across the country, a portfolio worth $444,414,469.
You could solve the homeless crisis with all that real estate.
CBC is claiming state secrets when asked about the cost of a Supreme Court battle over getting information on government secrets. Canada’s state broadcaster has been pushing Ontario Premier Doug Ford to release the mandate letters given to his cabinet ministers since 2018.
Poilievre not saying whether he’ll support ban on medical interventions for trans minors
Conservative Party members may have voted clearly in favour of banning medical interventions for transgender youth, but party leader Pierre Poilievre still isn’t saying whether he thinks the policy should become law.
While visiting Nanaimo, B.C. on Tuesday, Poilievre made his first public comments on the proposal since this past weekend’s Conservative Party policy convention.
He was asked specifically whether he supports the ban.
In a normal country the police would be investigating the diddlers at CBC.
Access to Information records shows the CBC now has 144 corporate directors getting paid six-figure salaries, averaging $135,388 excluding bonuses and expenses, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
WTF?
Alberta is calling and professional racialized women are answering — some, to a rude awakening
Lungile Tinarwo had high hopes of establishing her own law firm and prospering when she first moved to Edmonton.
“Everybody talks about… there’s an abundance of work, there’s this, there’s that. But I’ve never felt more alone and marginalized than since starting my practice here,” Tinarwo said.
Ten years after leaving Toronto, and as the province continues to target skilled workers in Ontario and the Maritimes with its Alberta is Calling campaigns, she’s having regrets.
After the head of Canada’s public broadcaster gave a newspaper interview earlier this year that promised CBC would eventually become a digital-only product and that criticized Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, senior managers were quick to refute her comments, internal emails suggest.
The Globe and Mail reported in February based on an interview with Catherine Tait that she was preparing to end traditional TV and radio broadcasts and move completely to a digital platform, but that this likely wouldn’t happen in the next decade.
Bottom line, CBC staff are worried about job loss under the proposed digital platform.
Everything else is just smoke to hide the CBC’s hard left cultural bias in the hope of currying public sympathy.
Regardless of where the dust settles on Canada’s tumultuous battle with Big Tech, the nation’s news industry won’t find stability until its playing field is levelled.
That means ending the CBC’s ability to sell advertising in all of its forms and turning it into a pure play public broadcaster and online news organization.
When the Reform party shook up Canadian politics in the 1990s, one of its proposals was to privatize CBC Television. In the three- or four-channel TV universe of the ’50s, it may have made sense to have a tax-funded corporation providing a full range of programming, from news to sports to comedy to variety. But even in the early ’90s, as today’s infinite-channel universe was beginning to take shape, there was no shortage of viewing options for Canadians and more than enough niches for original Canadian programming to fill without taxpayer assistance.
Foreign interference means Canada should get serious on media literacy, advocate says
And who is that advocate? MediaSmarts, a child sexual mutilation proponent.
CBC is a morally diseased culture. Children should be shielded from it’s propaganda.
Christian conservative groups recruiting thousands to back Higgs
Christian conservative groups rallying support for New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs now have enough signatures to be a decisive factor in any leadership review vote.
Two groups rallying support for the embattled Progressive Conservative leader have flexed their muscles in the last month, gathering enough names to swing the vote in his favour.
“A lot of times it’s hundreds or even dozens of people that can make a difference in some of these elections,” said Faytene Grasseschi, who runs the group 4 My Canada from Quispamsis, outside Saint John.
In a recent interview on CBC Radio, pop culture columnist Radheyan Simonpillai described the success of the new hit film “Sound of Freedom” can be attributed to “Xenophobic, Pro-Trump, Pro-Life types.”
The film, which has sold-out shows across the United States and Canada, is about former Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard who founded Operation Underground Railroad in order to take down child trafficking rings in South America.
CBC News cried “uncle” yesterday in its long-running quarrel with Alberta premier Danielle Smith, as you may have read in your National Post . In January, a story from the network claimed that some member of the new premier’s staff had sent emails directly to Crown prosecutors ordering them to let up on COVID rulebreakers. This created a nasty suspicion that the premier’s office was interfering directly in individual criminal prosecutions, and it rightly led to an investigation by the province’s ethics commissioner, Marguerite Trussler. In the meantime, the CBC stood stubbornly behind its story.
