95 Replies to “Ezra Visits The CBC”

  1. People seem to miss the timeline; Ezra was in August, Walsh was in October; these two are disjointed and not in proper context for debate of private vs public property.
    Both in my eyes, were wrong. Or as the old saying goes, “two wrongs don’t make a right”.

  2. Well, Jeff Keay did actually suggest the most appropriate response (i.e.: just ignore him unless he becomes legitimately disruptive. Unfortunate nobody listened.

  3. marc in calgary at 12:44 AM, that one sorta jumped off the page and hit me, too. I’m still laughing out loud. Good thing nobody else is here, or they’d think I was crazy.
    On to something else now: Harper, if this isn’t enough then what is? Privatize the damn thing.

  4. I work in the security field ,In this case they had every right to turf him.I’d have kicked his ass out too! Sorry Criminal trespass is still trespassing .
    Now Mary Walsh’s costume, now that’s a real crime!

  5. So did this make the evening news on CBC? Anyone?
    Oh. You’re like me and 9/10 of the rest of Canada? We don’t watch/listen to CBC news.

  6. I still think Ezra should do a “This 22 Minutes Feels like an Hour” segment on Mary Walsh herself…
    give her some of her own medicine.

  7. Davenport : the difference is that in only one of those two instance was (a) the police immediately called and (b) sworn at.
    Incorrect.
    The difference is that the public broadcaster wants to keep the public off its private property. But they have no qualms about sending their employees onto the private property of others.
    Speaking of swearing, did the CBC ever provide any evidence of what Ford allegedly said?

  8. All those emails, all that work, all that brainstorming, all those higher-ups involved for an incident that should’ve had a pre-specified response.
    It makes you wonder how anything gets done at the CBC with any measure of efficiency and effectiveness. I’m sure meetings and conference calls will be held relating to this.
    It also makes you wonder how the CBC can’t/won’t see the delicious hypocrisy in this compared to how they handled the Rob Ford ambush.
    “Clue: no clue” is pretty amusing.

  9. When I filed a complaint with the National Capital Commission re:Occupy Ottawa, they cited case law which permits individuals the right to freedom of expression on private property owned by the government. It would be reasonable to infer that freedom of the press also applies.
    Committee for the Commonwealth of Canada v. Canada 1991
    This is a 20 year old ruling, and the CBC is completely ignorant of it.

  10. johnbrooks
    “This has nothing to do with private vs public. It is the manner it is done.”
    So if I understand correctly, Ezera should have worn a red dress?

  11. One BEAUTIFUL part about the e-mail banter contained in the PDF… A TREASURE TROVE OF INTERNAL CBC E-MAIL ADDRESSES!!! I think ALL OF US should be asking some questions of the taxpayer funded staff of the CBC… like why they think crashing Rob Ford’s house is COMEDY, but having Ezra show up at their house is CRIMINAL ACTIVITY!
    amanda.pyle@cbc.ca
    jennifer.mcguire@cbc.ca
    CBC VP – bill.chambers@cbc.ca
    jeff.keay@cbc.ca
    julie.mccambley@cbc.ca
    elizabeth.lea@cbc.ca
    CBC VP – kristine.stewart@cbc.ca
    zissis.liolios@radio-canada.c
    fred.mattocks@cbc.ca
    evelyn.vacean@cbc.ca
    President and CEO – ht.lacroix@cbc.ca
    shaun.poulter@cbc.ca
    angus.mckinnon@cbc.ca
    chris.ball@cbc.ca
    HAVE FUN EVERYONE!!!

  12. Hmmm…public property? Isn’t that where the Occupy people have set up their shanty towns? But using typical convoluted right wing logic, the public accessing a public space is bad… oh, except when some right whinging buffoon thinks that all government and crown corporation buildings should be open to all.

  13. “I believe he has berated security guard jobs in the past as well, which lessens his authenticity or point value.
    Posted by: johnbrooks at November 15, 2011 11:30 AM”
    And babbling brooks…I believe you are a leftard ahole,which definitely makes you an authenitic socialist puke.
    Or am I not allowed to “believe” that?

  14. It’s amusing that the CBC-ites couldn’t even spell their boss’s name correctly. So much for multiculturalism.
    What we really need is Ezra Levant interviewing Mary Walsh! Or vice versa!

  15. Downloaded the pdf, but I’m waiting until after dinner to read it — CBC hypocricy is so disturbing that it usually gives me indigestion.
    I hope that Ezra gives this as much coverage as possible on SUN (have had trouble picking up SUN since they changed to digital — they only have a 3 kilowatt over-the-air signal so I haven’t followed the story except here).
    It gives me indigestion because the CBC pretends to be the champion of human rights — always doing documentaries on how nasty our Police and Military are, always fighting for the rights of troublemakers, protest mobs, and even criminals and terrorists. But as soon as someone makes a mild peaceful demonstration about the CBC — a lone unthreatening individual like Ezra — the CBC goes into panic mode: Call the cops! Major security breach!
    Are Canadians absolutely sure that the CBC hasn’t simply evolved into a front organization for a foreign spy agency over the years, evidenced by their extreme paranoia about secrecy? My gawd, even CSIS isn’t allowed to be as secretive as the CBC!
    CSIS is at least audited by other institutions such as SIRC — Security Intelligence Review Committee. The CBC accepts no such auditing or critique whatsoever — I don’t think it is totally off-the-wall to suspect that the CBC may in fact be run by a foreign agency under fascist control, since the Canadian taxpayer or our democratically elected representatives are certainly not allowed to have a say about the National Broadcaster anymore…

  16. illberry
    “Hmmm…public property? Isn’t that where the Occupy people have set up their shanty towns? But using typical convoluted right wing logic, the public accessing a public space is bad… oh, except when some right whinging buffoon thinks that all government and crown corporation buildings should be open to all.”
    I see, Ezera did forgit to bring his tent
    ”

  18. EBD wrote, “Jennifer McGuire, the editor in chief of CBC News, writes ‘He has been trying to trick his way into building’ and ‘He has been telling Security guards he works here.'”
    Those two fabrications jumped out at me too. CBC: objective? No way. Prone to stupidity? You bet!

  21. “Both in my eyes, were wrong.” Errr no, the equivalent would be if Ezra had trespassed on the front yards of the CBC whiners’ HOMES.

  22. Robert of Ottawa at November 15, 2011 6:51 PM: “Scandal at the BBC!…”
    Bang on, Robert. So if the BBC British National Broadcaster has been found to be “in the pay” of a foreign Government such as Malaysia, the idea isn’t so far-fetched that the CBC would do it as well. It wouldn’t surprise me if Left bureaucrats are selling out National Sovereignty everywhere these days.
    Just an aside, but the suspicion about the CBC and foreign influence was raised a number of years ago re: Cuba (see http://ricardostories.wetpaint.com/page/Horrific+Truth+about+Cuban+Medicine+–+Is+the+CBC+spending+Canadian+Tax+Dollars+on+Cuban+Propaganda%3F).
    It may not be Cuba these days, but I would certainly wonder whether they are accepting money from certain Middle-East dictators opposed to the Alberta oil sands, for example, or maybe good ol’ comrade Hugo of Venezuela — Fidel’s commie protégé in OPEC.

  24. Trollberia said: “Hmmm…public property? Isn’t that where the Occupy people have set up their shanty towns?”
    Well no, as it happens. Zucotti Park in NYC is -private- property. Dumb@ss.

  25. 22 Minutes and the CBC? Same old, same old: yawn. Who’s watching the watchmen? Ezra is poking at the eyes of a sacred dog and bringing something new to the tube. Criticize away and thanks for joining the fun.

  27. Ibby
    …two different people almost simultaneously mock your stupid, misguided, ass because we both have a keen sense of the obvious..?
    Think that one out.

  28. Justthinkin, you are entitled to think whatever you want, and I won’t berate you or using that freedom, but sadly your mouth gives away your IQ level being a low point value.

  29. syncrodox, red dress, blue suit, not sure why my point isn’t clear, nevertheless my point is about the latency of time to leave, or the disrespecting a simple security guard job.
    His tirade lowers my view of him, or basically coming down to the same level as CBC we all so adamantly oppose.

  30. I think it’s hilarious the entire CBC is intimidated by Wee Ezzie and his political satire. Red alert, to the castle walls! Levant sighted! Pull up the drawbridge! Bwaaa hahahahahah. You can smell the fear on these parsite pinkos from here.

  31. Interesting enough, the amount of name calling going on in this forum by so called ‘right wing’ posters who frequent SDA, makes me cring as this is what ‘left wingers’ feed on.
    Give your head a shake. You want intelligent discussion, speak like an adult, not a dolt.
    Someone opposes your thinking, or gasp, doesn’t agree with you? That is freedom, respect it.
    And please don’t come back with berating and name calling as a freedom. Freedom is something with boundaries.

  32. Just reported on CKNW Vancouver: CBC refuses to provide Vancouver police with video footage of ‘hockey’ rioters unless served with a warrant.
    Wasn’t CBC the sole broadcaster refusing to air photos of alleged war criminals who entered the country illegally and subsequently disappeared?
    Imagine. We pay them a billion plus each year to work against our civic interests.

  33. “…oh, except when some right whinging buffoon thinks that all government and crown corporation buildings should be open to all”
    Not quite, halfwit. Most posters here think the cbc building should be boarded shut, its worthless occupants scattered to the winds, and $1.1B or so of private sector-stolen money returned to its rightful owners.
    Maybe even you can understand that, iberia.
    mhb23re

  35. johnbrooks
    Ever figure that your point isn’t clear because you have none?…oh and those boundaries on freedoms…most folk call them responsibilities…weird eh?

  36. …two different people almost simultaneously mock your stupid, misguided, ass because we both have a keen sense of the obvious..?
    Think that one out.
    Posted by: syncrodox at November 15, 2011 9:44 PM
    I have…obviously both of you have problems with comprehension. And reality. A very common problem with small dead minds.

  37. Iberia, the CBC went into an upper-management pants pissing panic attack. Over one guy in the lobby, who wasn’t appearing to threaten anyone or their child at their home, now was he?
    Now go back to your comic books.

  38. I know its fun to terrorize the trolls with logic but it only encourages them to try to ante up the rhetoric…something they are not good at.
    Feeding them only encourages them to expose themselves to saner folk.

  39. syncrodox – stating that the tactics were childish and disrespectful of a career choice by a known media type is not making a point?
    Yes responsibilities, at least we are on the same wavelength with that one, and herein I stop.

  40. Freedom is something with boundaries.
    Posted by: johnbrooks at November 15, 2011 10:08 PM
    Indeed. “The right to swing your fist ends at my nose.”
    In a time when most Canadians have access to hundreds of TV channels – including dozens of Canadian channels – and access to broadband internet, why should part of my paycheck be deducted to subsidize a lone government-owned competitor to those private TV channels?
    Why should the CBC be subsidized (with some of my money under force of law)? Why should the federal government even own a TV network in 2011?

  42. Apart from the abject stupidity displayed by the CBC “management” team, did any of you other IT folks out there happen to notice the E-mail system that CBC uses?
    It’s GroupWise. A billion dollars in federal money and the best the IT deprment can come up with is a 3rd rate e-mail system.

  43. A lot of companies used to use GroupWise, or Novell products. A lot of government agencies used groupwise as well. Same with oilfield companies. I think Husky still does or just switched over to Exchange.
    Novell was, was, good software to have. In fact I think in 1996 they were 65% of the market, now probably down to 3%.
    But it still it out there. V12 is getting released soon.
    http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/

  44. OK then, John, by your response I assume that you also don’t see any good reason why the CBC should be subsidized or even why the federal government should own a TV network in competition with private Canadian broadcasters.
    If that is the case, then I further assume that you would be in general agreement with Quebecor’s campaign to get the CBC to reveal how they spend their $1B+ annual subsidy under freedom of information requests. The CBC’s refusal to comply with any of these requests is contemptuous of Canadian law and borders on fraud. Ezra Levant’s stunt merely draws attention to the CBC’s recalcitrance in revealing how it spends taxpayer dollars.

  45. Totally Ed, open the books for an independent audit and publish the results.
    This would make Adscam look like a Girl Guide Cookie drive.

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