The CBC needs to come clean with Canadians about how it picks its guests and frames its stories, according to its own ombudsman, after complaints of bias over coverage of gender identity programs in schools.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the rebuke followed a 2023 episode of CBC Radio’s Front Burner that addressed nationwide protests against gender identity curriculum but only featured two guests — both transgender and both connected to sexual minority activism.
On March 22, 2020, CBC News Network interviewed Dr. Richard Schabas. Schabas had been Ontario’s chief medical officer of health between 1987 and 1997 and had appeared, or been heard, on the CBC, by his estimate, “literally hundreds” of times before. For more than 30 years, he had been a regular and trusted source on public health matters, and he had fully justified the CBC’s confidence in him. During the SARS outbreak in 2003, for example, Schabas was the chief of staff at one of the affected hospitals, York Central. At a time when there was widespread panic and some models were predicting 120 million deaths worldwide, he determined that the disease was not sufficiently infectious to spread in community settings and predicted that it would die out as soon as proper infection control measures were adopted in hospitals. He was proved right.
The CBC once imagined its audience as a single community, bound by shared interests and a common national purpose. In the 1960s, producers like Patrick Watson were taught to ask of every program: “How will it serve the audience?” That question presupposed a public that was coherent, if not always unanimous — a public that might quarrel over facts and policies, but still inhabited the same civic space.
That assumption no longer holds. The ideal of a singular Canadian audience has shattered. A dramatic fragmentation has occurred, and Canadians now divide on first principles. Where there was once consensus, there is now dissensus.
When the CBC dislikes a person or an opinion, our taxpayer-funded broadcaster calls it “controversial.” In CBC-speak, “controversial” means conservative, libertarian, religious, traditionalist, classical liberal, or otherwise not in line with woke ideology. For the CBC, there is nothing “controversial” about a man who “identifies” as a woman having an absolute right to enter women’s washrooms and other female spaces. Only those who seek to protect safe spaces for women are “controversial.”
Travis Dhanraj, the former CBC News Network host who denounced the Crown Corporation for “dysfunction at the highest level” in an internal email from July that went viral, has filed a human rights complaint against the CBC, claiming discrimination based on colour, disability, and race.
The CBC is about as diverse as a Maoist Struggle Session.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is blasting the CBC for spending more than $93,000 to enter and attend journalism award galas since 2019.
According to access-to-information records, the CBC spent $54,390 on entry fees for the Radio Television Digital News Association awards and another $38,668 on travel and attendance, for a total of $93,058.
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As if there were any doubt of the ultra-cozy relationship between the federal Liberals and their in-house broadcaster, the CBC, it was reinforcced Friday morning.
This is one you’re not going to believe…
On today’s episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice shares government documents Juno News has uncovered showing that CBC has hired at least 20 Temporary Foreign Workers in their Ontario offices.
h/t Patti Jo
Since it launched in 2018, CBC’s Gem streaming service has been a slap in the face to Canadians. Ottawa takes around $1.5 billion a year out of our pockets, ostensibly so the public broadcaster can provide reliable news and support the domestic film industry, but if Canadians want to watch CBC News Network without a cable package, or tax-funded programming without ads, they have to fork over an additional $5.99 a month.
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada is going to court to defend its refusal to disclose subscriber numbers for its Gem streaming service.
A spokesperson says the public broadcaster will make its case in Federal Court, after the information commissioner ordered CBC to make available the number of paid subscribers to Gem.
Everything is a secret with our public broadcaster.
CBC executives advised journalists to avoid using the term “terrorist” in coverage of Palestinian violence, citing its political sensitivity, according to a newly released internal letter.
The 2023 letter by George Achi, then CBC’s director of journalism standards, explained the broadcaster’s reluctance to label attackers as terrorists.
h/t Mauser
Being a twin means you’re part of a unit. Although our parents worked hard to ensure we could grow as separate people, we were “the girls.” For the longest time, that’s how I understood myself and my identity: I was Camilla’s sister.
That’s why when I sat down with my doctor to discuss gender-affirming care, the first thing I needed to say was that I’m an identical twin.
Why is our national broadcaster championing sexual mutilation fetishists’?
Remember the classic sci-fi movie The Blob, and how the blob keeps getting bigger and bigger, while oozing over everything, heedless of the screams around it?
That’s what’s happening at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
More than three weeks after CBC host Travis Dhanraj resigned in spectacular form and accused Canada’s state broadcaster of not living up to their ideals, CBC says Dhanraj is still an employee.
Yes, CBC still refuses to accept his resignation, which he said at the time was prompted by CBC’s bias, lack of diversity of opinion, and their attacks on his integrity.
More than 1,800 employees at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation earned over $100,000 in 2024-25, costing taxpayers about $240 million, according to documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
The CTF says the CBC’s internal records reveal a “bloated bureaucracy,” with over 250 directors, 450 managers, and 780 producers now earning six-figure salaries
