The number of staff at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation collecting six figure salaries has more than doubled since 2015, according to access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
“Taxpayers don’t need all these extra CBC employees taking six-figure salaries,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “The government should save money by taking air out of its highly paid bureaucracy and that includes Crown corporations like the CBC.”
h/t Mauser
The Conservative party is calling for a parliamentary committee to investigate the CBC after journalist Travis Dhanraj resigned over the public broadcaster’s alleged “performative diversity, tokenism, a system designed to elevate certain voices and diminish others.”
Dhanraj was the host of Canada Tonight: With Travis Dhanraj on CBC. But he resigned on Monday, involuntarily, he says, because the CBC “has made it impossible for me to continue my work with integrity.”
Who gets ‘platformed’ by CBC News — and why
In the past year or so, there has been a sharp increase in the number of people writing to complain about how CBC News “platforms” certain viewpoints, people and organizations in our journalism.
The complaints come from across the political spectrum. Some are polite and thoughtfully worded. Some less so. They often include sentences like these recent examples:
“I’m writing to express my deep disappointment with your recent decision to platform …”
“I’m truly disgusted that CBC interviewed …”
“Stop giving airtime to … !!!”
“It’s vile, disgusting and totally inappropriate to give this person a platform.”
Meanwhile …
CBC host resigns, saying he could not continue at public broadcaster ‘with integrity’
Travis Dhanraj accused the public broadcaster of ‘performative diversity, tokenism, a system designed to elevate certain voices and diminish others’
Travis Dhanraj joined CBC with the intention of doing real journalism. He quickly found out that wasn’t why they hired him.
It’s important to note that Dhanraj didn’t leave any old job at CBC, he was the host of his own show — Canada Tonight: With Travis Dhanraj — the kind of achievement most aspiring television journalists only dream of. He was on the path to a Peter Mansbridge-level of success after working hard for it over his 20-years in journalism which included roles at CBC, but also, CP24, Global News, and CTV News.
CBC loves diversity, just not diversity of opinion. That mistake has now cost them a former top host and perhaps created an enemy.
In a scathing letter announcing his resignation, now former CBC journalist and television host Travis Dhanraj is taking aim at Canada’s state broadcaster.
If you are looking for solid analysis and balanced reporting on climate change and climate policy, you are unlikely to get it from CBC News. See, for example, a story last week on Ontario’s climate targets. Internal documents from the public service project Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions will be around 145 megatonnes in 2030, depending on industry actions and other factors. If the projection holds, the province would miss its target to reduce emissions to 142 megatonnes by 2030. The environment minister, appearing to contradict these projections, said on June 5th that the Progressive Conservative government’s plan “is working” and that the province was in fact on track to hit its targets.
The CBC has lost a Court application to block rival reporters from covering a hearing involving misconduct by one of its own managers.
The application marked a reversal of the CBC’s longstanding campaign for open court proceedings.
“Open courts are strongly presumed,” wrote Justice Ian Demers of Québec Superior Court, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
After four days in Israeli detention, Thiago Avila was relieved to be back in Brazil. He’d been taken into custody, along with 11 others, and spent two days in solitary confinement, after they’d tried to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza by sea. Their vessel, the Madleen, was intercepted leading to what he describes as a gruelling stay marked by inhumane treatment and a brief hunger strike.
And yet, he told CBC News from Sao Paulo, he chose to be detained rather than sign documents admitting to what he considered a false accusation — that they had tried to enter Israel illegally.
One of Greta’s Pals from the selfie cruise made a hero by the CBC.
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday criticized CBC News for changing its description of Taiwan from a country to a “self-ruled island.”
On June 14, Canada’s largest news broadcaster posted an article on the alleged ties between Bliss and Wisdom, a Buddhist group with operations on Prince Edward Island, and the CCP. The piece originally described a high-ranking monk from Taiwan as traveling “between his home country, Prince Edward Island, and China” in 2023 at the invitation of a Buddhist group that reports to the United Front Work Department.
h/t HS
In the middle of the election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to pay the CBC more money, waving around about $150 million in fresh taxpayer cash.
CBC covered that big scoop, with a headline calling the CBC “underfunded.”
Think about that scene.
Canada’s government news organization is set to get fatter and more powerful.
In the middle of the election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to pay the CBC more money, waving around about $150 million in fresh taxpayer cash.
CBC covered that big scoop with a headline calling the CBC “underfunded.”
That’s CBC reporter Andrew Chang’s assessment of Trump’s “bully strategy” to gain economic advantages using tariffs.
Through contiguous episodes of a streaming program Chang hosts called About That, the CBC has launched a veritable propaganda war against the US government, coated in a veneer of experts and tricked out with a speckling of science.
OTTAWA – At the beginning of the year, CBC was facing the very real prospect of being defunded by a Conservative government.
But after the political winds shifted in favour of Mark Carney’s Liberals, the public broadcaster was granted a reprieve — giving the minority Liberal government what could be a short runway to implement its proposed changes.
“I do think that the Carney victory has secured the future of the CBC for now, at least as long as they’re in power,” said Jessica Johnson, a senior fellow at McGill University’s Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy.
What happens next? The Liberal party will continue to fund the CBC’s propaganda.
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada says it will stop paying its executives and employees millions of dollars in controversial “performance pay” bonuses but will compensate by increasing their salaries instead.
The public broadcaster made the announcement in an unattributed statement Wednesday alongside a four-page memo summarizing a compensation review report conducted by a human resources consulting firm.
CBC releases “Animal Pride” documentary on “incredibly queer” racoons,