I am a big believer in local news. In the face of threats to our culture and digital sovereignty from American Big Tech giants, the CBC has an important role to play in telling Canadian stories. CBC Radio has many excellent programs, like The Current, As it Happens, and Q, which are heard around the world, and Canadians should feel proud about this.
Lately, however, the CBC’s role within the Canadian news ecosystem seems more competitive and conceited than complementary and conciliatory.
The headline from the CBC made it sound like the Trump administration was engaged in a street-level shakedown of their closest ally and neighbour.
“Washington demanding ‘entry fee’ from Ottawa before trade talks: sources,” CBC’s headline read.
The debate over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has become predictable. One side defends it as a pillar of national identity. The other calls for its outright defunding. Both positions miss the point. The CBC does not need to be preserved in its current form. Nor should it be dismantled entirely. What it requires is structural change rooted in first principles — clarity of purpose, fiscal discipline, and service to Canadians that the private market cannot or will not provide.
As the world slowly comes to terms with restoring the rights of women, the Carney government seems intent on perpetuating discrimination against females.
The International Olympic Committee, once steadfast in its bizarre commitment to opening up the female sporting category to all and sundry, is the latest organization to see the light.
The CBC is a huge waste of money. Nearly nobody is watching it and journalists should not be paid by the government.
With former employees testifying before a Parliament Hill committee, it’s easy to get lost in the drama.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is refusing to release an internal document that allegedly outlines which public figures its journalists are discouraged from interviewing, even after a former host told MPs the network maintained a blacklist of dozens of names.
During testimony before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, former CBC-TV host Travis Dhanraj said newsroom staff relied on an internal guide titled Parameters For Political Guests that restricted who could appear on certain programs.
Appearing before the House of Commons standing committee on Canadian heritage on Tuesday, former CBC host Travis Dhanraj painted a stark picture of how the public broadcaster allegedly abuses its employees, discriminates based on race and systematically attempts to silence conservative voices.
TORONTO — Former CBC host Travis Dhanraj told a parliamentary committee Tuesday that editorial interference, internal culture problems and political bias at CBC News have eroded public trust in the publicly funded broadcaster.
Early in his testimony, Dhanraj described an incident during editorial discussions about Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich. He told MPs that after he noted Lich had multiple last names, David Cochrane, host of Power & Politics, allegedly responded that “people who live in trailers usually do.”
Travis Dhanraj's testimony to the Heritage Committee
"Chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton circulated internal communications questioning my program, copying senior leadership, insinuating she or Mr. Cochrane should have done the interview."
",,,The CBC that I… https://t.co/46g2ZgE4zm pic.twitter.com/DaZjlHgRVR
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) March 10, 2026
Live feed.
It’s running late, was supposed to start at 11 am
My message to Canadians & CBC:
March 10, I will testify before the Heritage Committee.
Under parliamentary privilege, I will name names & present facts about what went on @CBCNews.
You won’t want to miss this, because it matters. cc: @brodiefenlon— Travis Dhanraj (@Travisdhanraj) March 5, 2026
This year’s estimates include $1.38-billion in funding for the CBC, representing a marked decrease from the $1.58-billion allotted to the public broadcaster during the 2025-26 fiscal year.
🚨CBC INTERNAL NUMBERS🚨
CBC’s own documents reveal the scale of the problem.
📉 Views are down nearly 30% year over year.
💰 Expenses exceed revenue by roughly 70%.
Audience collapsing.
Advertising collapsing.
Costs still soaring.And this is from their own internal reports. pic.twitter.com/GlO17zfQYi
— Northern Perspective (@NorthrnPrspectv) March 5, 2026
The cuts are weak sauce and I bet the money will be replaced by some hidden top-up or other.
Biological father of Tumbler Ridge shooter offers ‘heartfelt condolences’
The biological father of the 18-year-old who killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge before turning a gun on herself Tuesday issued a statement Thursday night, offering his sympathy to the families of the dead and saying he was estranged from the shooter.
In his statement, Justin VanRootselaar refers to his child as Jesse Strang and uses he/him pronouns to describe her. According to police, Jesse Van Rootselaar was assigned male at birth and began transitioning to female about six years ago.
OMG!
In 2023 @aiapalucci predicted Canada right now pic.twitter.com/7PGgV5GLLt
— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) February 12, 2026
Public trust in media institutions does not erode all at once. It weakens gradually, through patterns that go unexamined and assumptions that go unchallenged — particularly when a public broadcaster is expected to serve a unifying role in a polarized society, as the CBC is evidently expected to do in Canada. It is in precisely this context that our recent independent study on the CBC’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war was produced.
“The neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division linked to Ottawa’s “Freedom Convoy,” screams the Radio-Canada headline in French. This CBC smear-job story ran just prior to the Federal Court of Appeal releasing its January 16 denunciation of the federal government’s illegal conduct in February 2022. The court denounced former prime minister Justin Trudeau over wrongfully declaring a national emergency, illegally using violence against peaceful protesters, and violating Charter rights by freezing the bank accounts of hundreds of Canadians.
(Incognito)
A former CBC human resources employee is suing the national broadcaster claiming he was forced to leave a work environment so toxic and discriminatory there was a designated “crying room” so employees could deal with office stress.
The lawsuit also alleges CBC management in its northern operations kept a secret “do not hire” list that disproportionately blacklisted marginalized, disabled and Indigenous people.
CBC is expanding once again, but that’s not shocking given the amount of government money, or government-directed money that they get.
While every other media outlet struggles and tries to find ways to keep the lights on, CBC is handed money by a government that sees them as vital to the national – read party – interests.
