OTTAWA – If Pierre Poilievre wants to “defund the CBC” while maintaining its French-language programming, he’ll have to overhaul the country’s broadcasting law in order to do it.
That’s according to the corporation, which has found itself in a back-and-forth with the Opposition leader over his pledge to axe the roughly $1-billion in taxpayer dollars it receives annually.
The strange death and rebirth of the Liberal Party under Trudeau
The 2011 federal election seemed to have fundamentally changed Canadian politics. And maybe it did. Just not quite in the way it was imagined.
In theory, that vote heralded the arrival of a new political era. The Liberal Party’s day was done — the broadly centrist institution that dominated Canadian politics in the 20th century was no longer fit for purpose. Canada would finally become more like its sister democracies, with a clear contest between a distinct party of the political right and a distinct party of the left. The future seemed to belong to the Conservatives and the NDP.
CBC lays it on thick to support their scandal plagued Boss.
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA – The Opposition Conservatives are asking Twitter to apply a “government-funded” label on accounts associated with the CBC, even as other public broadcasters decry the tag for not making clear their editorial independence.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tweeted a copy of a letter addressed to the company making that request on Tuesday.
NPR quitting Twitter over label on social media account
BBC journalist: “There’s been a rise in hateful content on Twitter.”
Elon Musk: “Give me an example.”
Journalist: “I can’t.”
Musk: “You just lied.” pic.twitter.com/LONdKdZJH8
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) April 12, 2023
“If you tell the truth consistently, trust is automatic” – Former CBC Reporter blasts media coverage during pandemic and Freedom Convoy
At the National Citizens Inquiry in Toronto, former CBC reporter Rodney Palmer delivered testimony critical of Canada’s public broadcaster during the COVID-19 crisis. Palmer testified to a series of events that he called engaging in ‘propaganda’ and censorship rather than good faith ‘newsgathering’ at CBC.
h/t Mauser
Is a sit-down conversation with young children and drag performers in a classroom another step to “normalize” what was once considered an alternative lifestyle?
The CBC’s latest “bombshell” about UCP Premier Danielle Smith doesn’t prove what the state broadcaster thinks it proves. Once again, Mother Corp has let its anti-UCP biases convince it that it has a “gotcha” discovery, when in fact it has nothing of the sort.
For those of us who have worked in the Canadian creative sector for decades, it is profoundly worrisome to witness the attacks on Catherine Tait, the president and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, for defending the CBC’s existence.
Over the course of her five-year tenure, Tait has worked tirelessly to defend the role of the public broadcaster, strengthen its relevancy to all Canadians and expand the accessibility of its programming.
During an era of massive global disruption and a plethora of choices on how and where content can be consumed, Tait’s leadership has provided audiences with stories that entertain, resonate, and connect all Canadians.
Contrary to the Ceeb’s degenerate worldview Child abuse is not a “Canadian story” anyone should be proud of but I suspect the pedophile demographic is the only audience segment the CBC leads in.
Why does working in the “creative sector” always seems to lead back to tax payer dollars. Funny that.
The CBC’s coverage of the China interference scandal has often been questionable and partisan. Though its unsurprising that the organization has chosen to act, yet again, as the Liberals’ state-funded PR wing, its recent decision to platform an apologist for Beijing’s genocide against the Uyghurs is a new low.
OTTAWA — Employees of Canada’s national broadcaster were paid more than $16 million in bonuses last year, according to new documents uncovered by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
The documents, obtained through an access to information request, show $16,052,148 in bonuses was handed out to 1,142 full-time CBC employees. That works out to around $14,000 per employee, on average.
This is an outrage. We pay for the hate against us spewed from Trudeau’s propaganda machine.
I am skeptical of Poilievre’s claim he will defund the CBC gravy train.
CBC staff shocked to discover confidential religion, sexual orientation details in online HR files
OTTAWA — Some CBC employees say they felt “surprised” and “betrayed” after sensitive private information, including their sexual orientation, gender identity and religion, suddenly appeared in their online human resources profiles last week after they had provided it in a “confidential” diversity survey.
The main reason the CBC is so cozy with the Trudeau Liberal government is that they both think alike.
However, there is another big reason, too: Money.
Drag Queen loving perverts gotta stick together.
CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait is a magnet for controversy. Since she took the helm of the public broadcaster in 2018, she has waded into political debates that most of her predecessors would have religiously avoided in the name of protecting the CBC’s independence.
Ms. Tait may feel she needs to be an advocate for public broadcasting at a time when the CBC’s raison d’être is being questioned as never before in its 86-year existence. But she more often than not comes across as thin-skinned and self-serving in her defence of a taxpayer-funded institution that has an obligation to serve all Canadians, not just the ones it chooses to.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has accused CBC president Catherine Tait of launching a partisan attack on him, saying she is “not even pretending to be unbiased” based on her remarks in a Globe and Mail interview this week.
Ms. Tait also came under fire from CBC viewers and supporters on Wednesday over her disclosure in that same interview that the CBC is preparing to end traditional TV and radio broadcasts and go completely digital, as audiences shift to streaming.
CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait scored an own goal on Tuesday, handing Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre a powerful fundraising tool and making life harder for CBC journalists, particularly those in the Parliamentary Press Gallery.
“There’s a lot of CBC bashing going on – somewhat stoked by the Leader of the Opposition.” — Catherine Tait, President of the Crown Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Company. On tour.
It has to be the top unabbreviable qualification of the president of the nation’s largest, publicly funded communications instrument — CBC — that she has some understanding of … communications.
