Renowned Canadian author and psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson gave a scathing critique of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and its coverage of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
Peterson made the comments during an episode of his podcast with guest Dr. Julie Ponesse. He said the public broadcaster should no longer receive any public funding due to its “appallingly corrupt” practices.
Yuri Bezmenov defected from the Soviet Union to Canada in the ‘70s, and his warnings about disinformation have made him a posthumous star on social media. Documents obtained by CBC News reveal his toxic relationship with Canada’s intelligence services.
The public broadcaster’s correction Thursday said the claim “should have referenced experts’ concerns that during the current tension over Ukraine, Moscow could use its cyber and disinformation capabilities,” according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
It’s a paradox.
Canadians keep telling public-opinion pollsters they’ve had quite enough of the gruesome Chinese police state and would rather have nothing at all to do with the Beijing Winter Games, which officially kick off this week. With all the national shouting and divisive contentions over COVID-19 containment, inflation and a real estate industry drunk on relentlessly rising housing costs, it’s the one big thing Canadians seem to agree upon.
Critics call for new rules for online fundraisers after protest convoy takes anonymous donations
Critics are calling on the federal government to introduce new rules for online fundraising campaigns after a fundraiser for this weekend’s protest in Ottawa against vaccine mandates raised millions of dollars — in part from anonymous donors and people using fictitious names.
Green Party parliamentary leader Elizabeth May said the GoFundMe fundraiser for the protest convoy raises concerns about whether such campaigns could be used by big businesses or foreign state actors to circumvent Canada’s political financing rules.
“If this isn’t worrying, it certainly exposes a possibility that is very worrying, which is that you can be not a political organization, not registered with Elections Canada but find the right kind of dog whistle and put up a GoFundMe campaign,” she said.
Elizabeth May? A Yankee who along with US NGO funding has worked for decades to undermine Canada’s Oil & Gas industry is worried about “foreign interference”. The gall.
CBC Jumps The Shark … Again
So desperate to smear. pic.twitter.com/x8h6BSmOJh
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) January 29, 2022
Large number of donations to support convoy came from aliases, unnamed donors
Many donors used satirical aliases, including ‘Justin Trudeau’ and ‘Theresa Tam’
At least a third of the donations to the GoFundMe campaign set up to support the convoy of trucks headed to Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates came from anonymous sources or were attributed to fake names, according to an analysis by CBC News.
While thousands of Canadians and Canadian businesses have dipped into their pockets to fund the cause, thousands of other donors to the campaign are listed simply as “Anonymous.”
Should the CBC run ads? It depends on a number of facts, most of which are not firmly established.
Is topping-up the CBC’s budget so as to free it from the necessity of selling $250 million of ads per year really the best use of public money? It’s hard to believe it is. Making CBC ad-free, as cultural nationalists have long demanded, seems a marginal sort of expenditure whose only saving grace is that many of the other things this government would do with the money are even lesser-value spending. Could we not buy the front end of an ice-breaker instead? Or a few guns for our soldiers? Or cut tax rates by a decimal point or two? Of course, in our system the government gets to decide and if no other party opposes it, and none seems ready to, ad-free will probably go through.
For the first time in a long while, there appears to be broad support, on both sides of the political spectrum, for reforming the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In a long-overdue move, the Liberals have pledged to make the broadcaster “less reliant on private advertising.” But they will do it in a decidedly Liberal way: by increasing its funding, as if the scads of public money the CBC already gets isn’t enough. The CBC has strayed so far from its mandate that the only way to truly modernize it is to privatize most of its assets.
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The CBC’s conception of ideological diversity apparently now ranges from far-left to hard-left
Tara Henley’s “ Why I quit the CBC ” article in Tuesday’s National Post confirmed the worst suspicions of conservative viewers and listeners. To work at CBC, Henley writes, “is to sign on, enthusiastically, to a radical political agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American social media platforms that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions. It is to pretend that the ‘woke’ worldview is near universal.”
Tara Henley’s takedown of the CBC as a woke, state-funded palace of the absurd, while eloquently written, really didn’t say anything its critics haven’t been saying for years.
It was just that this time a former CBC journalist said it. Henley reflected the view of many Canadians who today consider the CBC unwatchable, given its liberal and Liberal bias.
I can’t wait to read the CBC’s headlines on the latest poll from Maru Public Opinion.
I would bet solid money, though, we won’t see: “More than three-quarters of Canadians turn up noses at thought of moving to Quebec.” Nor: “Quebec dead last among desired provinces for relocating Canadians.”
A veteran CBC journalist who worked as a TV and radio producer and occasional on-air commentator said Monday she quit the state-funded broadcaster last month because its “radical political agenda” made it impossible to do good journalism.
Golly, another of those right wing “conspiracy” theories proves true.
The CBC spews Liberal party propaganda. Propaganda is designed to humiliate the target and is all about about coercion and control. If the CBC had it’s way you would be anally raped live on the National by transgender ISIS lesbians.
‘To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity’
For months now, I’ve been getting complaints about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where I’ve worked as a TV and radio producer, and occasional on-air columnist, for much of the past decade.
People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported. Or why our pop culture radio show’s coverage of the Dave Chappelle Netflix special failed to include any of the legions of fans, or comics, that did not find it offensive. Or why, exactly, taxpayers should be funding articles that scold Canadians for using words such as “brainstorm” and “lame.”
As bad as we thought.
Emails shed light on fury over Mike Harris’s 2021 Order of Ontario appointment
Emails obtained by CBC News suggest not everyone happy with ex-premier getting the honour
Government emails obtained by CBC News shed new light on public anger over former premier Mike Harris’s controversial 2021 appointment to the Order of Ontario.
Established in 1986, the province’s highest honour is reserved for those whose “excellence has left a lasting legacy” in the fields of arts, education, business, law and public service, according to the Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Culture. Nominations are announced every New Year’s Day.
Harris, 76, was Conservative premier from 1995 to 2002. His agenda of sweeping change left a lasting legacy, but the nature of that legacy is still hotly debated by supporters and detractors alike, highlighting a political divide almost two decades later.
Ontario election in 6 mos. time to crank up the LPC propaganda machine at the CBC. Why do I doubt that CBC will bother with a similar article on PM Blackie if and when he is ever “awarded” once out of office.
