CBC - Mother Station or Media Terrorist?

In the fall of 2015, CBC’s Marketplace commissioned lab testing on samples of fish oil, vitamin C and protein powder supplements, part of an investigation to determine whether consumers were getting what they paid for when purchasing natural health products. Based on those results, Marketplace reported that five of the products did not contain what was indicated on the label. The manufacturers strongly disputed the results and demanded the testing be re-done.

Turns out, the re-test found the original results to be false and the CBC issued a retraction. I found the entire situation – the intent of the story, the failing of the evidence, and the retraction – confusing. Clearly, the CBC wouldn’t have done the story unless they were determined to find something untoward? But why? For what reason would the CBC try to sell Canadians doubt about natural health? Don’t most Canadians understand that natural, preventative health practices and products are of huge benefit to us, individually, and – collectively, in terms of reduction of health care costs?

In 2017, HANS was sharing office space with another natural health nonprofit – Pure North S’Energy.

Every day I witnessed extraordinary extensions of kindness, compassion and love, from the Pure North staff to the patients.

That July two years ago, Pure North S’Energy was strategically attacked by the CBC through radio, television, print and online, based on the allegation that an elderly woman (uninjured) was over-prescribed Vitamin D at a Calgary clinic.

As a result, Pure North S’Energy Foundation lost their provincial funding. The organization, still operating, is now seeking $6 million in damages from the national broadcaster and two of its reporters, Charles Rusnell and Jennie Russell.

Why would our national broadcaster seek to destroy an organization that deserves to be celebrated?

From there, the CBC’s anti-natural health campaign ramped up. Individual chiropractors, naturopaths, homeopaths, and other practitioners, many friends of HANS, were publicly victimized by way of condescending, invalidating, misleading terminology and accusations. The CBC’s approach to natural health indicated something much more sinister than a mere media bias.

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