CBC takes $1.1 billion from the taxpayers and moonlights on the side to earn extra cash, but the state broadcaster isn't willing to say what it makes from its various business ventures.
A 77-page report on CBC's revenue-generating activities shows the broadcaster rents out space, sells the rights to its programming and is involved in several other business ventures to make extra cash, but CBC doesn't release how much money it earns.
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cbcexposed is all about exposing the waste of the CBC ... over 1 billion dollars a year of taxpayer money funds the cbc and a lot of that taxpayer money is wasted.
CBC's own poll says broadcaster lacks vision ...
A slim majority of CBC employees and a larger majority of CBC stakeholders do not believe the state broadcaster has a clear vision for the future, according to CBC's own internal polling.
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Read the full story here.
CBC should open up about exec pay ...
A taxpayer advocacy group is calling on CBC to be as open about the salaries for their top executives as executives of some of Canada's top companies are.
"If disclosure of executive compensation for publicly traded companies serves the public interest, then we as coerced shareholders of the state-funded broadcaster are certainly concerned by the culture of secrecy that refuses similar disclosure by executives at the CBC," said Stephen Taylor, director at the National Citizen Coalition.
CBC has repeatedly refused to disclose the salaries or bonuses of their top executives unlike many publicly traded companies.
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"If disclosure of executive compensation for publicly traded companies serves the public interest, then we as coerced shareholders of the state-funded broadcaster are certainly concerned by the culture of secrecy that refuses similar disclosure by executives at the CBC," said Stephen Taylor, director at the National Citizen Coalition.
CBC has repeatedly refused to disclose the salaries or bonuses of their top executives unlike many publicly traded companies.
Read the full story here.
CBC gets timeout to plead for more cash ...
The CRTC has postponed licence renewal hearings for the CBC until next June - a delay that will allow the state broadcaster to plead its case for more money from Heritage Minister James Moore and Canadian taxpayers.
CBC hasn't had a licence renewal in 12 years, and argues it needs a fistful of new dollars to keep Coronation Street, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune and other shows on the dial.
Private broadcasters, including Sun News Network, rely on advertising revenues and are at a disadvantage when it comes to budget forecasts because they can't count on guaranteed taxpayer handouts.
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CBC uses its huge public subsidy to compete unfairly ...
The CBC supposedly exists to tell Canadians their story in ways for-profit networks would not. But the state broadcaster is anything but an old-style, non-commercial public radio and television company. Its tentacles now extend everywhere in the media universe except perhaps print, and it uses its huge public subsidy to compete unfairly in countless areas where the government has no excuse for intruding.
Indeed, it has always been unfair that the CBC airs American shows, bidding up their cost to private Canadian networks with whom it also competes for advertising dollars. But the problem goes far beyond such obvious injustices.
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Indeed, it has always been unfair that the CBC airs American shows, bidding up their cost to private Canadian networks with whom it also competes for advertising dollars. But the problem goes far beyond such obvious injustices.
Read the full story here.
CBC legal spending into millions ...
Despite having a team of 20 in-house lawyers on their payroll, the CBC has been spending more than $3.3 million each year for legal services from private law firms.
Documents obtained through Access to Information laws — to which the CBC has been subject to for just two years — revealed that the public broadcaster spent more than $23 million in legal contracts with private firms between 2000-01 and 2006-07. That averages out to $3.3 million annually, with a peak of $4.7 million in 2003-04.
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Documents obtained through Access to Information laws — to which the CBC has been subject to for just two years — revealed that the public broadcaster spent more than $23 million in legal contracts with private firms between 2000-01 and 2006-07. That averages out to $3.3 million annually, with a peak of $4.7 million in 2003-04.
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Bull****, bull****, and more bull****, actions from CBC?
Why, has the CBC steadily erased just about all - CBC English local programming in Montreal and Quebec: when in fact their 'supposed mandate', is to grow English Quebecers programming in Quebec ... because, we are the OFFICIAL Minority population in Quebec, and recognized as such by Canada.
And - given, CBC's responsibility is, to concentrate on growing - French local programming -OUTSIDE- Quebec, NOT inside Quebec, because Francophones are Officially a Minority group, as we all know - in the rest of Canada, and the MAJORITY in Quebec; why has CBC spent so much of its budget, over the past few decades, on French programming IN Quebec - and yet NOTHING on English programming IN Quebec?
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And - given, CBC's responsibility is, to concentrate on growing - French local programming -OUTSIDE- Quebec, NOT inside Quebec, because Francophones are Officially a Minority group, as we all know - in the rest of Canada, and the MAJORITY in Quebec; why has CBC spent so much of its budget, over the past few decades, on French programming IN Quebec - and yet NOTHING on English programming IN Quebec?
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This week, the CBC discovered the “joke” was on them.
Duceppe-CBC 'misunderstanding' a joke.
Even during the dog days of summer, Canadians from coast to coast were roused from their slumber — and they expressed honest-to-goodness outrage. Outrage that untold thousands of their tax dollars would go to a separatist who is entitled to collect a $140,000 annual MP’s pension. Outrage that the CBC would hire someone who had been repudiated by millions of Quebec voters, and only a few weeks ago, too. Even leading francophone voices, like the Toronto Star’s Chantal Hebert, called the situation intolerable.
Read the full story here.
Even during the dog days of summer, Canadians from coast to coast were roused from their slumber — and they expressed honest-to-goodness outrage. Outrage that untold thousands of their tax dollars would go to a separatist who is entitled to collect a $140,000 annual MP’s pension. Outrage that the CBC would hire someone who had been repudiated by millions of Quebec voters, and only a few weeks ago, too. Even leading francophone voices, like the Toronto Star’s Chantal Hebert, called the situation intolerable.
Read the full story here.
CBC: Bias and secrecy
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is not behaving like an independent media company in this (recent) election campaign.
They're not even acting like a left-wing state broadcaster anymore.
No: They are looking like a partisan advocacy group, determined to shape the outcome of the election campaign, not just report it.
That is unacceptable.
The full story here.
They're not even acting like a left-wing state broadcaster anymore.
No: They are looking like a partisan advocacy group, determined to shape the outcome of the election campaign, not just report it.
That is unacceptable.
The full story here.
Gilles Duceppe drops Radio-Canada gig ...
Former Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe has resigned from his new job as a commentator for Radio-Canada before ever making it to air.
"We understand Mr. Duceppe's decision, and we regret that he wasn't told right from the start about the constraints imposed by our standards and practices," said Anne Sérode, who oversees Radio-Canada's Première Chaine, the equivalent of CBC Radio One.
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"We understand Mr. Duceppe's decision, and we regret that he wasn't told right from the start about the constraints imposed by our standards and practices," said Anne Sérode, who oversees Radio-Canada's Première Chaine, the equivalent of CBC Radio One.
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Watchdogs question Duceppe’s CBC gig ...
After spending nearly 20 years in Parliament fighting to break up Canada and getting a gold-plated pension of $140,765 a year for his efforts, Duceppe is sucking from the public trough again as a new voice on the state broadcaster. Radio-Canada – the French radio arm of the CBC – hired the defeated Bloc leader, 64, to contribute weekly to a two-hour daily morning show to chat about sports, culture, science and social issues.
“I don’t think that would sit well with Canadians no matter what political party they happen to support,” CTF national director Gregory Thomas said about the double-dipping.
Thomas also raised concerns over whether the hiring of a separatist violated the section of the Broadcasting Act that directs the CBC to be predominantly and distinctively Canadian.
“It brings into question whether the state has a role in broadcasting at all.”
Read the full story and watch the video here.
“I don’t think that would sit well with Canadians no matter what political party they happen to support,” CTF national director Gregory Thomas said about the double-dipping.
Thomas also raised concerns over whether the hiring of a separatist violated the section of the Broadcasting Act that directs the CBC to be predominantly and distinctively Canadian.
“It brings into question whether the state has a role in broadcasting at all.”
Read the full story and watch the video here.
CBC slams evangelical involvement on The Hill ...
On February 10, CBC journaliste Brigitte Bureau launched into a 30-minute documentary that claimed to show how some evangelical Christians have undue influence in Ottawa, particularly when it comes to Conservative MPs and Senators. To call the documentary "reporting" would be an insult to all first-year journalism students across Canada.
Read the full story here.
Read the full story here.
A safety inspector in the Yukon is suing the CBC ...
A safety inspector in the Yukon is suing the CBC for publishing what he says is a malicious and professionally damaging attack on its web comment board.
According to The Canadian Press, Robert Scott's weight, his competence and his credibility all come under fire in the post, which he says in his statement of claim clearly breaks the national broadcaster's own guidelines.
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According to The Canadian Press, Robert Scott's weight, his competence and his credibility all come under fire in the post, which he says in his statement of claim clearly breaks the national broadcaster's own guidelines.
Read the full story here.
The Dirty 30 and CBC’s name shame ...
The Harper government’s initial refusal to release the names and photos of suspected war criminals living in Canada was puzzling.
It was through stories, columns and editorials in newspapers like this one and broadcasts on Sun News Network that pressure built on Public Safety Minister Vic Toews to change his mind and release the identity of the suspects Canada wants to deport.
A CBC spokesman has said the state broadcaster will not release the names and faces because of their journalistic standards.
Despite getting their $1.1-billion taxpayer subsidy from the Harper government and even an extra $60 million in the most recent budget, the CBC disagrees with the government’s positions on crime and immigration.
Read the full story here.
The ongoing decision of the CBC not to show the now-released names and photos is mind-boggling.
A CBC spokesman has said the state broadcaster will not release the names and faces because of their journalistic standards.
Despite getting their $1.1-billion taxpayer subsidy from the Harper government and even an extra $60 million in the most recent budget, the CBC disagrees with the government’s positions on crime and immigration.
Read the full story here.
This class proceeding concerns the use and allocation of pension surplus from the CBC Pension Plan (the “Plan”).
This action alleges that CBC breached the terms of a Surplus Allocation Agreement with Plan members, pursuant to which surplus in the Plan was historically apportioned between CBC, active employees and CBC Pensioners.
Read more here.
Read more here.
CBC's $600,000 July 1 party
The CBC, as every taxpayer should know, loses $1.2 billion a year. If it didn't lose $1.2 billion a year, then there would be no need for the taxpayer to prop it up every year with $1.2 billion of its money.
So why then is the CBC, funded by the government, paying the same government some $600,000 for the television rights to our Canada Day celebrations when a private sector broadcaster purchasing the rights could actually put money in our pockets?
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So why then is the CBC, funded by the government, paying the same government some $600,000 for the television rights to our Canada Day celebrations when a private sector broadcaster purchasing the rights could actually put money in our pockets?
Read the full story here.
WikiLeaks: CBC feeds anti-American stereotypes
A cable from the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa to officials in Washington says CBC, "the state-owned" broadcaster, "has long gone to great pains to highlight the distinction between Americans and Canadians."
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Read the full story here.
Whose side is the CBC on?
The CBC said the Jewish Defence League (JDL) is a terrorist group.
The Canadian government has an official list of about 50 terrorist groups. You can see them on the website of the department of Public Safety. The JDL isn’t on them.
It’s slander. But it’s standard operating procedure at the CBC. These are the same folks that led the witch hunt accusing our Canadian Forces of being war criminals in Afghanistan.
Read the full story here.
The Canadian government has an official list of about 50 terrorist groups. You can see them on the website of the department of Public Safety. The JDL isn’t on them.
It’s slander. But it’s standard operating procedure at the CBC. These are the same folks that led the witch hunt accusing our Canadian Forces of being war criminals in Afghanistan.
Read the full story here.
Williams shuns CBC after mention of marital problems ...
Newfoundland and Labrador premier Danny Williams is refusing to speak to the CBC after someone mentioned his marital problems on a live radio panel discussion on the station.
Read the full story here.
Read the full story here.
CBC won’t dish on party costs ...
You may be paying for CBC to celebrate its 75th anniversary but don’t expect the state broadcaster to tell you what it is spending on the celebrations.
CBC cites several reasons for refusing to release costs, including that to do so would be against the economic interests of Canada and that the information is “advice or recommendations developed by or for a government institution or a minister of the Crown” and so, apparently, not accessible.
CBC president Hubert Lacroix has told MPs that “only a judge” - not an officer of Parliament - can tell his organization what to release.
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CBC cites several reasons for refusing to release costs, including that to do so would be against the economic interests of Canada and that the information is “advice or recommendations developed by or for a government institution or a minister of the Crown” and so, apparently, not accessible.
CBC president Hubert Lacroix has told MPs that “only a judge” - not an officer of Parliament - can tell his organization what to release.
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Toews blasts CBC for not publishing IDs of suspected war criminals
A senior Conservative cabinet minister has blasted the CBC for refusing to publish the photos and names of 30 suspected war criminals living in Canada illegally.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews sounded off against the CBC during a Winnipeg radio show on CJOB Tuesday.
Read the full story here.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews sounded off against the CBC during a Winnipeg radio show on CJOB Tuesday.
Read the full story here.
CBC wrong about Nova Scotia having "highest taxes in Canada" ...
CBC anchor Tom Murphy peered sternly into the camera during the six o’clock TV news on Tuesday to deliver the day’s top story: “Confirmation tonight of what many Nova Scotians have long suspected,” Murphy said with a knowing shake of his head. “We pay more in taxes than anywhere else in the country.”
Yet the report also says: “Within Canada, Nova Scotia’s average total effective tax rate is third highest among the provinces.”
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Yet the report also says: “Within Canada, Nova Scotia’s average total effective tax rate is third highest among the provinces.”
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CBC exec: Columnist who compared Sarah Palin to porn star is "insightful" and "witty" ...
It's been a week now since I blasted the CBC for web-printing an appalling Heather Mallick column that — among other charming riffs — compared Sarah Palin to a "porn actress," and speculated witlessly on the manner of copulation of Palin's underage daughter.
Read the full story here.
Read the full story here.
Tories take us for fools on CBC
Speaking to CBC's Q talk show -- where else? -- Moore said CBC was not outside Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's pronouncement that all government departments would be subject to finding a minimum of 5% in budget cuts.
But then, lo and behold, the latest federal budget quietly gave the CBC an extra $60 million in welfare.
That pushes its annual stipend to almost $1.2 billion.
Now, for all you math geniuses who didn't go to school just for recess, what's 5% of $1.2 billion?
Right you are. It's exactly $60 million.
Heritage Minister Moore gives the CBC $60 million with no specific earmark so all it has to do is hand the cheque back to meet Flaherty's demand for a 5% cut.
Read the full story here.
But then, lo and behold, the latest federal budget quietly gave the CBC an extra $60 million in welfare.
That pushes its annual stipend to almost $1.2 billion.
Now, for all you math geniuses who didn't go to school just for recess, what's 5% of $1.2 billion?
Right you are. It's exactly $60 million.
Heritage Minister Moore gives the CBC $60 million with no specific earmark so all it has to do is hand the cheque back to meet Flaherty's demand for a 5% cut.
Read the full story here.
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