“If you tell the truth consistently, trust is automatic” – Former CBC Reporter blasts media coverage during pandemic and Freedom Convoy
At the National Citizens Inquiry in Toronto, former CBC reporter Rodney Palmer delivered testimony critical of Canada’s public broadcaster during the COVID-19 crisis. Palmer testified to a series of events that he called engaging in ‘propaganda’ and censorship rather than good faith ‘newsgathering’ at CBC.
h/t Mauser
Is a sit-down conversation with young children and drag performers in a classroom another step to “normalize” what was once considered an alternative lifestyle?
The CBC’s latest “bombshell” about UCP Premier Danielle Smith doesn’t prove what the state broadcaster thinks it proves. Once again, Mother Corp has let its anti-UCP biases convince it that it has a “gotcha” discovery, when in fact it has nothing of the sort.
For those of us who have worked in the Canadian creative sector for decades, it is profoundly worrisome to witness the attacks on Catherine Tait, the president and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, for defending the CBC’s existence.
Over the course of her five-year tenure, Tait has worked tirelessly to defend the role of the public broadcaster, strengthen its relevancy to all Canadians and expand the accessibility of its programming.
During an era of massive global disruption and a plethora of choices on how and where content can be consumed, Tait’s leadership has provided audiences with stories that entertain, resonate, and connect all Canadians.
Contrary to the Ceeb’s degenerate worldview Child abuse is not a “Canadian story” anyone should be proud of but I suspect the pedophile demographic is the only audience segment the CBC leads in.
Why does working in the “creative sector” always seems to lead back to tax payer dollars. Funny that.
The CBC’s coverage of the China interference scandal has often been questionable and partisan. Though its unsurprising that the organization has chosen to act, yet again, as the Liberals’ state-funded PR wing, its recent decision to platform an apologist for Beijing’s genocide against the Uyghurs is a new low.
OTTAWA — Employees of Canada’s national broadcaster were paid more than $16 million in bonuses last year, according to new documents uncovered by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
The documents, obtained through an access to information request, show $16,052,148 in bonuses was handed out to 1,142 full-time CBC employees. That works out to around $14,000 per employee, on average.
This is an outrage. We pay for the hate against us spewed from Trudeau’s propaganda machine.
I am skeptical of Poilievre’s claim he will defund the CBC gravy train.
CBC staff shocked to discover confidential religion, sexual orientation details in online HR files
OTTAWA — Some CBC employees say they felt “surprised” and “betrayed” after sensitive private information, including their sexual orientation, gender identity and religion, suddenly appeared in their online human resources profiles last week after they had provided it in a “confidential” diversity survey.
The main reason the CBC is so cozy with the Trudeau Liberal government is that they both think alike.
However, there is another big reason, too: Money.
Drag Queen loving perverts gotta stick together.
CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait is a magnet for controversy. Since she took the helm of the public broadcaster in 2018, she has waded into political debates that most of her predecessors would have religiously avoided in the name of protecting the CBC’s independence.
Ms. Tait may feel she needs to be an advocate for public broadcasting at a time when the CBC’s raison d’être is being questioned as never before in its 86-year existence. But she more often than not comes across as thin-skinned and self-serving in her defence of a taxpayer-funded institution that has an obligation to serve all Canadians, not just the ones it chooses to.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has accused CBC president Catherine Tait of launching a partisan attack on him, saying she is “not even pretending to be unbiased” based on her remarks in a Globe and Mail interview this week.
Ms. Tait also came under fire from CBC viewers and supporters on Wednesday over her disclosure in that same interview that the CBC is preparing to end traditional TV and radio broadcasts and go completely digital, as audiences shift to streaming.
CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait scored an own goal on Tuesday, handing Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre a powerful fundraising tool and making life harder for CBC journalists, particularly those in the Parliamentary Press Gallery.
“There’s a lot of CBC bashing going on – somewhat stoked by the Leader of the Opposition.” — Catherine Tait, President of the Crown Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Company. On tour.
It has to be the top unabbreviable qualification of the president of the nation’s largest, publicly funded communications instrument — CBC — that she has some understanding of … communications.
If the federal government can push to remove one foreign state broadcaster, it can do so for others, argues the Conservative foreign affairs critic.
At the Special Committee on Canada-China relations in Ottawa Monday evening, Michael Chong grilled Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino on why state-owned Chinese broadcasters are still available in Canada, despite being removed in other countries over concerns about disinformation and human-rights abuses.
“Authoritarian state-controlled broadcasters, which spread propaganda and disinformation, should not be on the list of non-Canadian programming services and stations authorized for distribution,” Chong told the Star afterward. “That is our call for action.”
Remember when the CBC attacked the anti-ChiCom newspaper “Epoch Times” for not adhering to Strongman Xi’s party line on the Wuhan Flu?
The CBC were Xi’s finger puppet basing their whole story on a couple of cranks & Canada Post’s union, thankfully the public furor forced CBC’s cadres to back down.
Here’s the original CBC attack on Epoch Times, Beijing was well pleased that day.
The head of the CBC says it is preparing to end traditional TV and radio broadcasts and move completely digital, as audiences shift to streaming, but the move is unlikely to happen over the next decade.
In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Catherine Tait, president and CEO of the CBC, said the broadcaster is eventually preparing to shift all its content to online-only “in order to remain relevant.”
How antisemitic tropes are being used to target the LGBTQ community
Over the past year, a new front for hate has opened up across Canada and the United States, with drag performances and gender-affirming care providers becoming targets of harassment and threats. But the vitriol has an all-too-familiar tone — one that a well-known anti-hate organization says is a cause for concern.
The U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is warning about a “convergence” of antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ hate.
Tablet Magazine has a timely antidote to the CBC & ADL’s toxic lies – The Queering of Antisemitism
How an unlikely alliance between LGBTQ studies and anti-Zionism conquered American universities
Some years ago, I was the target of a series of antisemitic, homophobic, and anti-Zionist hate crimes on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University, where I teach. Aside from the death threats and property defacement, what troubled me most was how authorities and colleagues only acknowledged the homophobic part of the crime. Despite my protestations, the anti-Zionism was erased and the antisemitism, which was not subtle—a swastika drawn on my car with mud—was severely minimalized. On college campuses these days, LGBTQ concerns (as well as racial ones) always count. Anti-Zionism never does, and antisemitism only when it occurs alone—not in relation to other forms of social animus.
This series of hate crimes against me took place—in a way I have never found coincidental—during one of the periodic eruptions of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Several days later, I again found my office door defaced, and death threats left on my office telephone. One faculty member I knew who had read about the hate crime on the front page of The New Haven Register rushed to empathize, calling me the victim of “the homo-hating patriarchy.” I winced at my colleague commiserating with me in an ideological language that I knew targeted me in other ways.
Is there any deviant behavior the ADL doesn’t endorse nowadays?
