… Joseph Kay, creator of CTV’s hit procedural “Transplant” and showrunner of CBC’s 2015 drama “This Life,” worried about what the broadcaster’s cuts will mean for the future of original programming in Canada.
“You look at a show like ’Sort Of.’ Would a great show like that be bought by any other network in Canada? I’m not sure.’” he said of the series, starring Bilal Baig, who CBC touted as the first queer South Asian and Muslim actor to lead a Canadian prime time television series.
Ottawa adds funding to CBC; broadcaster will get $1.4B budget
OTTAWA – Canada’s public broadcaster is getting an increase in funding, despite executives insisting that a request to cut CBC/Radio-Canada’s budget for the next fiscal year was one reason they announced layoffs for 10 per cent of staff.
Documents Canadian Heritage released on Thursday show CBC will get a $1.4-billion budget in 2024-25, an increase from the $1.3 billion it spent in the previous fiscal year.
It’s about a $90-million increase, documents say.
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA – CBC’s failed lawsuit against the Conservative party during the 2019 election cost nearly $400,000 — but that information was kept from Parliament for nearly three years.
Now, Don Plett, the Conservative leader in the Senate, is raising concerns about transparency in the federal government after his office was forced to file an access-to-information request to obtain an answer to his questions on the cost of the lawsuit submitted in the upper chamber in 2021.
h/t DS
The president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada filed for expenses of more than $119,000 at a time when she complained to the government about the broadcaster’s financial woes, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
In her testimony at the House of Commons Heritage Committee on Tuesday, CBC President Catherine Tait — the haughty, detached, condescending Marie Antoinette of the Laurentian elite — unleashed two clangers that cannot go unanswered.
I look at her and think maybe that Icke guy is right about the Lizard people.
Well, buckaroos, I think it’s time to rise to the defence of embattled CBC CEO Catherine Tait. Heck, somebody should.
Tait’s recent appearance before the heritage committee was a heroic attempt to inform us, the unwashed. She managed, in a brief appearance, to establish that the CBC is underfunded and that she, as the CEO of CBC, is accountable for nothing.
There was a point during CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait’s testimony this week, before a House of Commons committee, when you just had to wonder whether she had been coached beforehand by Claudine Gay in how to come off as hopelessly disconnected and obtuse.
Ms. Gay, you’ll remember, is the now ex-head of Harvard University, whose December testimony before a U.S. congressional committee into antisemitism on campus was a mixture of hubris and contempt for politicians she should have known better than to disrespect. Her appearance went viral and set off a chain reaction that led to her resignation a few weeks later.
OTTAWA – The federal Liberal government is denying that it told CBC/Radio-Canada to cut its budget by 3.3 per cent, despite executives with the public broadcaster insisting that’s part of the reason they’re laying off 10 per cent of their workforce.
The Treasury Board, which oversees spending in the federal budget, said that no such directive was given to the public broadcaster.
“Whatever Radio-Canada and CBC is doing is their decision,” the office of the Treasury Board president, Anita Anand, told The Canadian Press on Wednesday.
I don’t believe a thing either side says.
OTTAWA — Federal politicians condemned CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Catherine Tait’s refusal to rule out bonuses for executives this year despite plans to cut 10 per cent of the national broadcaster’s workforce.
OTTAWA – Millions in bonuses have still not been ruled out for CBC/Radio-Canada’s executives despite hundreds of job cuts planned in the English and French services.
The head of the public broadcaster, Catherine Tait, told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that the board of directors will rule by the end of the fiscal year, on March 31, whether executives will receive compensation which she called “performance pay.”
CBC CEO Catherine Tait claims the public broadcaster remains “the single most effective tool” that Canadians have to combat disinformation.
Is she for real? In the last 2 years more than 100 correction notices were issued w/ regards to stories put out by the CBC. pic.twitter.com/rWy17vlCZb
— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) January 31, 2024
Omg – Tucker just dared CBC News to come interview him after the show.
What will they do? https://t.co/HMxNfPTD0o
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) January 24, 2024
EDMONTON — Over the holidays, the federal government informed us that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is in for a “redefinition” of its purpose and mandate. Don’t worry, CBC-lovers: it’s clear enough that there’s no immediate threat of change. The heritage minister, in promising to consult Canadians on why we might need such a thing as a CBC, managed to confirm that she likes it just the way it is. And sometimes we feel the same way. Only an abundantly resourced public broadcaster with tendrils in every community could produce anything like CBC News’s panoramic vision of an overlooked national problem with abandoned shopping carts.
Heritage minister says she’d like CBC’s mandate updated to include strong online presence, fill info gaps
Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge says she wants the role of public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada redefined before the next federal election.
In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, St-Onge said now is the time to update its mandate, to hedge against a possible change in government.
She said the Liberal government believes a strong public broadcaster strengthens democracy and promises to keep supporting it, adding she believes a Conservative government would destroy it.
New Year’s Eve will look much different this year on CBC-TV.
Canada’s public broadcaster tells The Canadian Press that “financial pressures” have led the network to cancel this year’s countdown, which inched towards midnight with musical performances and a fireworks show.
This year, CBC plans to air a new “Just For Laughs” special hosted by comedian Mae Martin at 11 p.m. in most markets, followed by episodes of “Comedy Night with Rick Mercer” as the new year rolls in. The programs will also stream on CBC Gem.
They must need the money for Exec bonuses.
There she is. Once again.
Pontificating, on the CBC political panel.
Chantal What’s-her-name?
They drag her out of somewhere, God knows where, when they need a Laurentian elite to say stuff. Even if she doesn’t have a single clue what she’s talking about. Even if she hasn’t talked to the principals involved, such as Western experts or politicians.
h/t Mauser
