The CBC continues to operate in a wasteful, bias manner serving the socialist left wing mandate only while continuing to lose viewers and advertising revenues. Scandals continue. An unsettling, ugly anti Semitic movement has grown in the CBC News operation, history experts will know that this troubling bias can have devastating results for our country. Act now- contact your MP, the PMO and the CBC to stop this frightening socialist anti Semitic driven bias now.
Disgruntled CBC workers continue to confidentially share their stories with us, reports of management snooping, waste, huge salaries for select senior management, content bias, low employee morale continue in 2021 and we will expose these activities in our blog while protecting our whistleblower contacts. We take joy in knowing that the CBC-HQ visits us daily to spy on us, read our stories and to find out who owns our for the Canadian people blog.
One of our most popular posts continues to be the epic Dr. Leenen case against the Fifth Estate (the largest libel legal case ever awarded against the media in Canadian history) yet where no one at CBC was fired and taxpayers paid the huge award and legal costs for this blatant CBC Libel action. Writers and filmmakers -this is a Perfect story for an award winning Documentary -ok - who would fund it and where would it air since the CBC owns the Documentary channel! Can you help? Please contact us.
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We ask students to please join with us in this mission; you have the power to make a difference! And so can private broadcasters who we know are hurting from the dwindling Advertising revenue pool and the CBC taking money from that pool while also unfairly getting massive Tax subsidies money. It's time to stop being silent and start speaking up Bell-CTV, Shaw-Global, Rogers, etc.
Our cbcExposed Twitter followers and visitors to cbcExposed continue to motivate us to expose CBC’s abuse and waste of tax money as well as exposing their ongoing left wing bully-like anti-sematic news bias. Polls meanwhile show that Canadians favour selling the wasteful government owned media giant and to put our tax money to better use for all Canadians. The Liberals privatized Petro Canada and Air Canada; it’s time for the Trudeau Liberals to privatize the CBC- certainly not give them more of our tax money-enough is enough!
The CBC network’s ratings continue to plummet while their costs and our taxpayer bailout subsidies continue to go up! In 2021 what case can be made for the Government to be in the broadcasting business, competing unfairly with the private sector? The CBC receives advertising and cable/satellite fees-fees greater than CTV and Global but this is not enough for the greedy CBC who also receive more than a billion dollars of your tax money every year. That’s about $100,000,000 (yes, $100 MILLION) of our taxes taken from your pay cheques every 30 days and with no CBC accountability to taxpayers.
Wake up! What does it take for real change at the CBC? YOU! Our blog contains a link to the Politicians contact info for you to make your voice heard. Act now and contact your MP, the Cabinet and Prime Minister ... tell them to stop wasting your money on a biased, failing media service, and ... sell the CBC.
Refugee Lawsuit Says CBC Documentary Outed Him as Gay
The CBC film “Inside Iran’s Secret Gay World” detailed the country’s “perilous and inhuman circumstances faced by homosexuals and their struggle for civil rights,” Farzam Dadashzadeh says in his Aug. 15 lawsuit in British Columbia Supreme Court.
Dadashzadeh says he was studying English and working as a hairstylist in Tehran during the filming, and had not disclosed his sexual orientation to family or friends, nor did he ever intend to.
The film included footage from the Jam-a-Jam restaurant in Tehran, “which was identified in the documentary as a known weekly gathering place for homosexuals and transgender people in the city.”
It used footage from a hidden camera, including several close-ups of Dadashzadeh’s face. Because it was shot surreptitiously, he was given no chance to leave the area or cover his face to avoid being identified. The film was broadcast in February 2007, and went “viral” in Iran, according to the lawsuit.
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CBC Being Sued Over Land Deal Reporting
The lawsuit, filed at Regina Court of Queen’s Bench on Tuesday, claims many of the “allegations, implications and/or assertions published by the Defendants conveyed, by the plain meaning of the words and by innuendo, that Boyd had acted unlawfully.”
“These statements and implications are and were untrue,” the claim states.
The statement of claim contains allegations not proven in court. A statement of defence has not yet been filed.
The claim references two stories written by Leo and published and broadcast by the CBC titled, “Businessmen made millions on Regina land that wound up in taxpayers’ hands” and “Sask. politicians call for review of puzzling land transactions uncovered in iTeam investigation.”
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Maxime Bernier says CBC seems frozen in time ...
Bernier says CBC/Radio-Canada “should stop doing three-quarters of what it still does” that private broadcasters are already doing, including running game shows and cooking programs, sports programming, music streaming and a website devoted to opinion journalism.
It also needs to stop “unfairly” competing with struggling private media in a shrinking advertising market, he says.
With a media landscape that now includes hundreds of channels and millions of sources of information and culture, “CBC/Radio-Canada seems frozen in time,” he said.
“It tries to occupy every niche, even though it doesn’t have and will never have the means to do so, with the result being lower-quality programming,” Bernier told reporters.
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Additional CBC funding could amount to blank cheque
Groupe Serdy president and CEO Sébastien Arsenault, Groupe V Média president and CEO Maxime Rémillard, and TVA Group president and CEO Julie Tremblay released a joint statement Wednesday saying Lacroix had mischaracterized their position as a desire to keep the public broadcaster locked into the “status quo.”
The executives said they are actually advocating for a “thorough review” of CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate as part of the review of Canada’s broadcast system announced by the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
The statement argued that if there is “no accountability” for an additional $675 million in government funding CBC/Radio-Canada is slated to receive, the “already precarious balance” between the public broadcaster and the rest of the industry “will be destroyed.”
The executives expressed concern the funding could amount to a “blank cheque” for CBC/Radio-Canada to step up its “already ferocious competition” against private broadcasters.
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Former CBC Director Launches Lawsuit
Christopher (Jim) Kozak alleges that Jean Mongeau, CBC’s general manager and chief revenue officer for media solutions, harassed, intimidated and bullied him from late 2014 until his April 2016 dismissal.
In a statement of claim filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Kozak says the behaviour involved “speaking in a condescending manner” towards him, “unnecessary pressure tactics around work assignments,” and “unjustly challenging and ‘grilling’ Kozak at one-on-one meetings and deliberately putting him on the defensive.”
Kozak is seeking $350,000 in damages for wrongful dismissal, $500,000 in aggravated or moral damages, and $250,000 in punitive damages.
The filing alleges the CBC has failed to implement the recommendations of the Rubin Report, an independent workplace study by lawyer Janice Rubin.
The statement of claim alleges the broadcaster only pays “lip service” to the recommendations.
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Police in Quebec Sue CBC Radio-Canada
According to the La Presse article, the police are arguing the CBC Radio-Canada reporting upset their relationship with the community and tainted the reputation of the officers who do not have sexual abuse allegations against them. They also call Radio-Canada’s reporting biased, inaccurate, and incomplete. The Provincial Police Association of Quebec, who’s funding the lawsuit, did not have an English-speaking spokesperson immediately available for comment. If they become available, this story will be updated.
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CBC plan makes no sense
The Canadian Media Guild said, in a news release, that CBC announced at a staff town hall today (September 22) that it will be "selling all its property across the country, including major production facilities in Montreal and Toronto".
"The decision to close down production centres is of great concern for our members as it should be for all Canadians, and seriously jeopardizes the CBC's ability to do meaningful production in the future," Marc-Philippe Laurin, CBC branch president for the CMG, stated in the release.
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HRC Prompts CBC to Amend Misleading Headline
The headline stated the following: “Israeli troops kill Palestinian in West Bank raid”.
In truth, Israeli soldiers were on an arrest raid in the west bank and the Palestinian had attacked the soldiers with a knife. HonestReporting Canada conveyed to CBC editors in a complaint yesterday that their article’s headline should refer to the Palestinian as an “attacker” considering that Israel claims he tried to stab their soldiers, even if the headline is in attribution. Failing which, readers who only saw the headline could wrongly conclude that Israeli troops killed an innocent Palestinian during a west bank arrest raid to detain wanted terrorists. We conveyed that people read headlines 3:1 over the adjacent article – so context in headlines is vital.
Following our complaint, CBC amended this headline to mention that the Israeli “military say he was armed”.
See the whole story and the before and after headlines here.
CBC to Ignore Older Viewers for Younger Ones
To attract a younger, networked generation, the cash-strapped CBC will do fewer supper-hour newscasts and impose "significant" production cuts as it drives into the digital space.
"CBC/Radio Canada is transitioning from a business model founded on conventional broadcasting … to a digital future, where content can be created and distributed with a smartphone," the Canadian network said in a 19-page document issued Thursday.
Ceding the broadcast space to private sector rivals like Bell Media, Rogers Media and Shaw Media, the CBC said it will increasingly target TV audiences going forward, shift to digital platforms and cut jobs and infrastructure in the five years leading up to 2020.
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AARC v CBC litigation
This story was sent to us recently and is very timely:
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An Alberta Law Society Hearing with a lawyer named Brian Fish is to be held this week on January 18, 2017. This lawyer has substantial involvement in the AARC v. CBC litigation, which is comprised of more than one Action filed in the Court of Queen's Bench, Judicial District of Calgary. An associated and important claim, which sheds light on some of the issues in the AARC v. CBC claim and which CBC and Brian Fish have now been attached is AARC Society v. Amy Sparks Action No:1101-06250 filed May 4, 2011. Mr. Fish played a part in the substance of the Spark's pleadings.
Should the whole affair be discussed in the House of Commons? Some believe the actions of CBC executives, journalists, and their legal department are egregious.
To see information on this upcoming hearing click here.
CBC News an ‘uber-predator’ in digital advertising market
Honderich said The Toronto Star, his company’s flagship publication, will have 170 journalists in its newsroom at the end of this year, down from 470 ten years ago. He noted as an example careers advertising, which once brought in $75 million in revenue each year for the company, and now no longer exists as a revenue stream because of free online portals.
Honderich also brought to the committee’s attention the competition media companies are facing in the digital advertising market from the online operations of CBC News, which he said was “spending incredibly on its website” and doing so with “unlimited resources.”
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CBC in Digital Age - dumbing down or shaping up?
Early in the town hall, Lacroix pointed to Vice Media, which originated 20 years ago in Montreal as a punk magazine, as one of CBC/Radio-Canada’s looming digital competitors as the radio and TV network embraces a digital future.
During a panel discussion by top CBC journalists and personalities, Patrice Roy, host of Le Téléjournal Grand-Montréal 18 h, Radio-Canada’s supper-hour newscast, argued Vice Media represented a bridge too far as a model for a transforming pubcaster.
Roy said the youth-skewing global media group operated at the intersection of news and entertainment, while providing no context for audiences.
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CBC President Hubert Lacroix hid expense story for 6 months
Lacroix’s partial apology to “Canadians who support the CBC” does not wash. It is a partial apology not to the House of Commons, the Senate and all Canadians.
“I want to apologize to my fellow employees at CBC/Radio-Canada.… We are now entering a period of great challenge, and I want to assure our CBCers and Radio-Canadiens that they can continue to have faith in their leaders. I also want to apologize to all those Canadians who support CBC/Radio-Canada for this careless error.”
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CBC Hubert Lacroix CEO salary secrecy
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Bombardier and CBC: Billion dollar subsidies for both, CEO salary secrecy for one ...
While Bombardier might be getting billion dollar taxpayer subsidies, at least we know what they pay their top executives. But that’s not the case with the CBC, at least when it comes to disclosing salaries.
CBC demands secrecy despite being government owned, government controlled and government funded.
It’s bad enough that they behave this way but it’s even worse when this attitude is coming from an institution that demands accountability and transparency from everyone else.
I say if we know the salary of the CEO of Bombardier, we should be able to find out the salary of the CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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CBC broadcaster comments prompts outpouring of rage
Chinese state media called commentator Byron MacDonald “abusive” after the CBC aired him saying “that little 14 year old girl from China dropped the ball” at the women’s 4x200-metre freestyle relay Thursday. She “went out like stink and died like a pig,” Mr. MacDonald said. The CBC subsequently apologized, saying “we sincerely regret that these comments were made.”
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Cost of new CBC Building to remain confidential
Senior management made the announcement Thursday at the current Maison Radio-Canada building, taking advantage of the opportunity to unveil the model of the new buildings, all glazed with glass and green spaces all around.
Hubert T. Lacroix, CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO, noted that the cost would remain confidential as long as the file had not been processed by the Treasury Board.
The timetable is tight: executives must go before the board in April or May, receive approval in June, conclude the transaction in July, and then begin construction in August. This must be completed by the end of 2019 for an opening in January 2020.
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CBC does about face on advertising
At this point you’d be forgiven for thinking that this column is about to pick apart the CBC’s request to the federal government this week for a massive increase in funding — $318 million more to be exact — so it can broadcast all its services free of ads.
"We recommend removing advertising from CBC/Radio-Canada," the public broadcaster said in a news release. "This would allow the broadcaster to focus squarely on the cultural impact of our mandate. It would also free up advertising revenue to help private media companies transition to a digital environment."
Okay. Now stop and think about this fact: the first paragraph did not come from me; it came from a news release issued by the CBC in 2011.
Yes, the same CBC now arguing it should be free of ads once said — just five years ago — there was no good reason to eliminate advertising.
"The elimination of advertising revenues would seriously compromise the Corporation’s ability to fulfill its mandate," CBC President Hubert Lacroix said at the time.
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CBC Ombud Partially Upholds HRC Complaint
As we told the CBC, failure to mention this information may have led CBC readers to wrongly conclude that core funding to UNWRA was at the time cut for strictly political or other purposes.
Ms. Enkin agreed with our perspective by noting the following:
“It is true that this was not the main thrust of the larger article, but the way it is phrased can lead to the impression that the funding was withdrawn because the agency was assisting Palestinians in any way. It is too broad to be clear. The Conservatives ended the funding because there were allegations that it was too closely tied to Hamas. I agree some reference to the Conservative government’s concern that UNWRA had ties to Hamas as the reason for ending the funding would be more accurate and would provide context.”
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Seven Wonders of CBC Decision Making
You gotta love this, in semi-socialist Canada we have a government run TV network – the CBC. Think PBS with poor content and a way bigger budget. They decided to run a contest to select the “7 Wonders of Canada”. The results are typical of what a CBC committee would do and it shows why crown corporations have no business competing in the entertainment business. Here is the web page: http://www.cbc.ca/sevenwonders/the_judges.html
Talk about the Seven Wonders of CBC decision making: Can you believe that through the power of politically correct committee-think -- a canoe and an igloo are "wonders" in Canada -- but the CN Tower, Cathedral Grove and the Bay of Fundy are not? A wonder is a place you can visit and feel awed by; what tourist would travel to Canada to see a canoe? I assure you I did not go to Egypt to see a felucca, I wanted to see Pyramids that touch the sky.
The CBC decision-making process is typical of New Age thinking, where the overriding concern seems to be not to offend. The committee was careful to find a wonder in every geopolitical zone so it is nice and fair to people who live on the edge of nowhere.
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Open Letter to CBC President
Letter to the CBC from the Treasurer, Thomas Conway.
I am writing because of my concerns with your recent CBC TV News story about disbarred lawyer Richard Chojnacki. The story is neither balanced nor accurate.
I am disappointed and dismayed that where the program's producers had access to additional facts that did not fit their storyline, they chose not to use them. There were opportunities to provide the viewer with more recent facts that bear significantly on the Law Society's role in the protection of the public interest.
The Law Society of Upper Canada takes very seriously its responsibility to protect the public interest, and to do so in an open and transparent manner. The events at the centre of your story began in 2004. Since then the Law Society has sought, and obtained, increased statutory authority in the managing of cases where a lawyer or paralegal is being investigated for professional misconduct. This significant fact, as I explained in my interview with the CBC, was ignored. Similarly, the Law Society has sought, and obtained, increased statutory authority permitting us to alert authorities in cases of imminent risk. Again, you failed to balance your story by letting your viewers know about these important developments.
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CBC Peter Mansbridge owes reign to luck, not skill
His is the story of an entirely unremarkable guy who, through both accident and design, was transformed into an elite Canadian journalist, one of the highest-paid by Canadian standards and one of the most recognizable. Many moments in this story invite amazement.
It’s well known that Mansbridge was discovered when, as a high school dropout, he was working as a baggage handler for Transair, a small airline in Churchill.
One of his occasional duties was calling flights. A traveller in the radio business liked that deep baritone voice and offered him a job. Mansbridge, who’s on record as never having considered journalism, accepted, and started off on his new path as lifelong lottery winner. That was 1968.
Almost 50 years later, Mansbridge has been king of the castle, host of the CBC’s flagship nightly news show The National for almost 30 years.
Mansbridge’s parting self-reverence has provoked a wave of discontent and a clear lack of gratitude for his services, especially from journalists who understand the difference between kitchen workers and the maitre d’hotel.
In an ironic twist, Mansbridge now finds himself on the sharp end of serious journalism, exposed as making an obscene amount of money for merely putting his voice to the labours of researchers, writers, editors, producers and technicians. The website Canadaland reports (and Mansbridge has not denied ) his most recent salary is just over $1 million a year, plus perks, earning him three times the salary of the prime minister. As the news business is driven to its knees, his negotiated pension will be $500,000 a year, enough to hire 10 journalists with student loans to pay off.
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Peter Mansbridge adept at influencing CBC news management
He, and he alone, conducts the many panels that eat up a lot of time on the program. He has a separate interview program on CBC News Network, and often, large segments of this program are run on The National, even when they are of dubious news value.
The National was once the leading newscast in the country, handily beating the competition in raw numbers, but also in breaking news stories. Sadly, its best days are behind it and have been for some years. And, Mr. Mansbridge, with all his awards and honours, has presided over this decline.
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