Having witnessed wave after wave of cost-cutting measures and layoffs in Canadian media, I was not at all surprised to hear that “CTV National News” anchor Lisa LaFlamme had been let go. But unlike the other 13,800 employees who lost their jobs in radio and television broadcasting between 2010 and 2021, the reaction to LaFlamme’s departure was swift, and filled with the type of over-the-top righteous indignation that has now become a staple of Canada’s chattering classes.
