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‘To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity’

For months now, I’ve been getting complaints about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where I’ve worked as a TV and radio producer, and occasional on-air columnist, for much of the past decade.

People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported. Or why our pop culture radio show’s coverage of the Dave Chappelle Netflix special failed to include any of the legions of fans, or comics, that did not find it offensive. Or why, exactly, taxpayers should be funding articles that scold Canadians for using words such as “brainstorm” and “lame.”

As bad as we thought.

Emails shed light on fury over Mike Harris’s 2021 Order of Ontario appointment

Emails obtained by CBC News suggest not everyone happy with ex-premier getting the honour

Government emails obtained by CBC News shed new light on public anger over former premier Mike Harris’s controversial 2021 appointment to the Order of Ontario.

Established in 1986, the province’s highest honour is reserved for those whose “excellence has left a lasting legacy” in the fields of arts, education, business, law and public service, according to the Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Culture. Nominations are announced every New Year’s Day.

Harris, 76, was Conservative premier from 1995 to 2002. His agenda of sweeping change left a lasting legacy, but the nature of that legacy is still hotly debated by supporters and detractors alike, highlighting a political divide almost two decades later.

Ontario election in 6 mos. time to crank up the LPC propaganda machine at the CBC. Why do I doubt that CBC will bother with a similar article on PM Blackie if and when he is ever “awarded” once out of office.

Advertising revenues at the CBC fell again last year. According to Mother Corp’s annual report, recently tabled in Parliament, ad sales were down from $220 million in 2019 to just under $199 million in 2020, a drop of about 10% in one year.

On top of that, CBC’s share of prime-time viewers fell by 2%, despite the fact locked-down Canadians watched more TV than ever before during the pandemic. At any given time during prime viewing hours (8 to 11 p.m.), just 5% of Canadians are watching our state broadcaster.

5% ??? The CBC has succeeded in uniting Canadians in their disdain for the CBC.

When I was a kid, there was a Canadian TV show called, “You can’t do that on television.” It was on in the United States thanks to Nickelodeon, if I remember correctly. The odds are high that you don’t remember the show or never heard of it. Either way, it is responsible for the introduction of “green slime,” the gross stuff poured on countless heads in the decades since. On the show, at any point during any of the skits, if someone said, “I don’t know” they had a bucket of slime dumped on them. If the show were on now, there are a whole host of words the leftists running the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) would not only slime you over, they’d cancel you for the rest of your life.

The CBC makes Canada a laughing stock.