CBC attacked by former Liberal minister

At this point, the CBC has become rather used to criticism from the Canadian right. This time, however, even a former Liberal minister has questioned their journalistic independence.

Ujjal Dosanjh, a former Liberal minister and premier of British Columbia, was referencing a CBC interview with Dr. Theresa Tam where she failed to surprise anyone by saying her response to the pandemic was not perfect. Talk about an understatement.

This interview, however, has been broadly criticized. Norman Spector, a journalist and diplomat, said that unlike BBC presenters, "Rosemary Barton kept agreeing with Dr. Tam."

Using a course comparison, Spector went on to say that "On the BBC, Maitlis interrupts bullsh*t on average every 28 seconds and Husain every 46 seconds; on CBC, Barton spends her time polishing Trudeau's turds."

Dosanjh followed Spector's lead by saying, "such softball interviews do make people wonder about the journalistic independence of CBC." This former Liberal's criticism may come as a shock to the ever-sensitive Barton.

Rosemary Barton has long been accused of possessing a Liberal bias. Amongst other errors, Barton has argued that deficits don't matter; said that the SNC-Lavalin scandal was unimportant; defended Trudeau's poor participation in parliament; and took a infamous selfie with the prime minister.

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CBC Comedy has grown stale

It wasn’t so long ago that the CBC was known as the Canadian home of strong satire and sketch.  The CBC helped launch the careers of iconic comedians like Dan Aykroyd, Andrea Martin, John Candy, and Martin Short.

But now, when Canada needs a compelling comedic voice more than ever, the CBC’s output has largely grown stale and irrelevant. 

So why has our country’s national comedy hub grown so fallow?

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CBC ordered to pay up all compensation

After seven long years of waiting for the conclusion of her arbitration to protest her exclusion from the CBC, Brenda Levy, our member from Ottawa, can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Arbitrator Serge Brault released on March 31, 2020, an eighty pages award on the quantum to be paid out to Brenda as compensation for various losses and damages suffered concerning the termination of her employment on April 30^, 2013. Brenda Levy has always maintained that her job cut was the result of a move by the Corporation to punish her for standing up for her rights rather than a true redundancy job cut as was alleging the CBC. It was on November 12, 2018, that the Arbitrator declared the CBC had violated the collective agreement and that the alleged redundancy was, in fact, an illegal dismissal.

In his award on the quantum Arbitrator, Brault has ordered the CBC to pay up all compensation with interests within 30 days. This would bring final closure to this long-standing procedure. Will this new decision be the subject of yet another legal procedure preventing justice from being rendered diligently? 

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CBC accused by Quebecor

One of the largest private media companies in Quebec has written a scathing letter to the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission claiming the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is trying to put its competitors out of business in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The letter from Quebecor, dated April 14, alleges, among other things, predatory behaviour on the part of the CBC in the advertising market and comes as the CBC seeks the renewal of its television and radio licences from the CRTC.

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CBCs Rosemary Barton Defends Trudeau Again

Despite already being seen as incredibly biased by millions of Canadians, Rosemary Barton continues to act more like the PMO communications department than like someone who is supposed to be a neutral public broadcaster.

The only ridiculous thing here is Barton once again failing to recognize the job of the media. The media is supposed to speak the truth and hold the powerful to account. Instead, Barton acts like she’s trying to defend the government, and attack the Opposition.

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Kids Instructed By CBC On How to Shut Down Their Parents

A CBC News report gives kids advice on how to shut down “conspiracy theories” voiced by their parents about coronavirus being created by China in a lab.

Because apparently that’s the media’s job now.

The presenter laments how somebody’s Dad may drop a message into chat blaming China for “manufacturing the coronavirus” with a “link to a site you’ve never heard of” (translation – a link that’s not, God forbid, mainstream media).

The piece then features a woman from a group that combats “misinformation online” who urges the son or daughter not to get confrontational with their Dad but to accuse him of being accurate and stirring fear.

At one point in the piece, the reporter even suggests that conspiracy theories can be “just as dangerous as a virus.”

The suggested article unsurprisingly comes from the CBC and is entitled ‘No, the new coronavirus wasn’t created in a lab, scientists say.’

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The clip CBC didn't want you to see

Here is the clip the CBC didn't want you to see.

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Canada faces an existential crisis with CBC

The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act of 1932 is the constitution of this country’s cultural sovereignty, a declaration that the population north of the 49th parallel would have its own culture and cover its own news. 

We are in different times and different technologies, but we would do well to remind ourselves of our founding principles.

Lost on the seas of new technologies, we need our compass – because we are facing the digital deluge.

The public broadcaster is weak and endangered. The business model for private broadcasters in Canada is perilous.

We are in an existential crisis.

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CBC jobs depend on getting Liberals elected,

In the Twitter world stalked relentlessly by journalists, there was a significant flap over the weekend when the esteemed CBC foreign correspondent, Neil Macdonald, now retired, posted that CBC jobs were wholly dependent upon keeping the Liberals happy.

It began when Conservative Sen. Linda Frum posted a video on Twitter of the Commons’ emergency debate that showed CBC anchor, Rosie Barton, suddenly cutting away just as Conservative mucker-upper Pierre Poilievre was delivering a tough question to the PM about when he knew about COVID-19.

Barton, he explained, had a content boss ordering her via her earpiece to cut away from Poilievre to save the Liberals from getting hammered on live TV.

“I remember the commissars telling us that our jobs depended on getting Liberals elected,” he  tweeted. “When some of us protested that the Liberals under Paul Martin made the deepest cuts to CBC budgets ever, I had to take a series of classes and sign a revised NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement).”

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Erin O’Toole promising to effectively end CBC’s English-language public broadcasting operation

Conservative leadership candidate Erin O’Toole is promising to effectively end CBC’s English-language public broadcasting operation, except for radio. But he says he won’t cut Radio-Canada, CBC’s French-language division.

O’Toole went on to attack the Liberals for increasing CBC’s operating funding after they were elected in 2015. The 2016 federal budget promised an extra $150 million annually for the CBC through 2021. That more than reversed the cuts imposed by Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, which in 2012 had slashed CBC funding by $115 million over three years.
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CBC’s viewership is plunging

CBC has one of the biggest advantages ever enjoyed by a ‘media organization.’

Not only are they state-controlled and state-funded, but they also get revenue from private sector ads.

Yet, despite all of their advantages, they’re still failing.

Apparently, if you don’t have content people want to watch, it won’t work out well.

As reported by Blacklocks CBC’s ad revenue is down 53% in the last five years.

A key reason for the loss of ad revenue is because CBC’s viewership is plunging.

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CBC’s propaganda line is a disgrace

CBC has generated massive outrage with their horrendous ‘coverage’ of Iran shooting down a flight carrying 63 Canadian Citizens.

Despite the obvious fact that Iran is responsible since they are the country that shot down the plane, CBC disgustingly tried to blame the United States:

“In a disgraceful propaganda attempt, CBC is attempting to blame US President Donald Trump for Iran’s shooting down of Flight 752 carrying 63 Canadians.

CBC Reporter Katie Simpson said “63 Canadians dead because of the unintended consequences of a decision made by the US President.”’

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