39 Replies to “Let Me Fix That Headline For You”

  2. In the early 90s when they were “cutting” in the Federal Government most people left because volunteered. They got a month pay for each year of service and their full pensions if they were vested.
    Mr. MacIntyre joined the CBC in 1976. That means he has 38 years of service, maybe more if he was employed by the Feds previously. That will be more than 3 years of pay on top of his full pension. That’s if he is a line employee. As a manager he’ll get more.
    Let the crocodile tears roll.
    Faux Cuts

  3. I like the theme music for As It Happens, very good early 70s jive.

  4. This is one of the phoniest gambits I’ve seen from McIntyre and the CBC. As I read it, Linden McIntyre, at 71 years of age, has chosen to retire; no one fired him; no one bullied him to go. No, he claims his retirement was prompted by his desire to protect younger colleagues who would have been laid off because of union seniority at the CBC. And, in view of what he earns, McIntyre may well have saved the jobs of several employees. Furthermore, those planned layoffs of the younger colleagues would have been a business decision by CBC management.
    And yet … in every report I’ve seen, you would think that Stephen Harper has forced McIntyre off the air, has “bullied” a persistent critic of the government, perhaps has even personally ordered his evil minions at the CBC to “get McIntyre”. My liberal friends are becoming increasingly delusional.
    Perhaps we should just praise McIntyre for his selfless sacrifice on behalf of younger colleagues (whose job security was put at risk by the Supreme Court of Canada reversing itself on the constitutionality of mandatory retirement). Perhaps we can even organize a tag day for McIntyre lest he find himself impoverished in his declining years.

  6. He also says he was “volunteering” to go in order to make one recognizable face among five hundred managers and associate producers – if you can ditch five hundred middle managers and are afraid no one will notice, am I the only one who sees a problem there?

  7. A 38 year employee steps down for the benefit his junior colleagues.
    What selfless sacrifice.
    Mr. Suzuki, are you taking note ?

  8. What a martyr! Hope his retirement medical benefits cover the plastic surgery he’ll need to fix those nail-holes in his wrists and ankles.

  9. Yawn. I quit watching the Fifth Estate years ago. Who needs to pay for a constant regurgitation of all the problems of the world, CBC ‘style’. If the CBC were to fall in the forest, would us working stiffs notice? Not a chance. Bring on the axe.

  10. And in that piece there’s this priceless bit:
    “Radio-Canada broadcasters penned an open letter to Mr. Lacroix last week, noting that the French-language division had lost about 20 per cent of its budget in the past six years…”
    Radio-Canada has been a principal home and breeding ground of separatism in Quebec for more than 35 years. How sweet it is that the Pequistes are feeling the pain of separation from the Mother Corp.

  11. He fails to mention that he’s married to the odious Carol Off, and thus together they have been collecting salaries, benefits, and pensions that if not quite Layton-Chow like, far far outpace what the average Canadian who pays their wages gets.
    That’s some sacrifice for a 71 year old with 24 years in a defined benefit pension plan.

  14. I have an idea worth considering regarding the CBC.
    Use only ONE BILLION dollars extracted from Canadian taxpayers for CBC and hand it off to Clarence Louie Chief of the Osoyoos BC First Nations Bandand let Louie build a “FOR PROFIT” Knee and Hip replacement facility on his Bands’ soil.
    The profits generated to be used solely for other First Nations Bands willing to join Louie’s band, “boot strap” themselves to a better life in a land of Plenty!
    SELFSUFFICIENCY, EH?

  16. Oh, such self lauding magnanimity.
    Cashing in on a lucrative retirement does not constitute great sacrifice. I have no idea who this fellow is but I already suspect advancing dementia as the real causative agent.

  17. I love the comments being made by the gay hipsters, the elderly hippies and the Marxists that read the Glob and Snail and take it seriously. They are all wailing and sobbing about the horror and tragedy of it all.
    It never occurs to those half wit mouth breathers that if the crap put out by the CBC was any good – they could take it to the private sector and probably make more money at it!

  18. Oh, the humanity!
    There is nothing sadder than an elderly bureaucrat voluntarily sacrificing his Iron Rice Bowl for the good of The Company. (I use the Chicom phrase advisedly, the Iron Rice Bowl is what they call a government job over in Chicomland because its a job you can’t be fired from no matter how useless you are. You can come in stinking drunk and sleep on the table every single day of your career and they still can’t fire you. If the old queen had done that he would have cost the taxpayers less.)
    Oh wait… there IS something sadder. I paid for this waste-of-oxygen CBC drone my entire adult working life! Now THAT is sad.

  19. “Cashing in on a lucrative retirement does not constitute great sacrifice.”
    Exactly.

  20. I wonder if he really is a salaried employee at the CBC.
    Many on air people are contracted via their own entertainment companies. I wonder if he may have quit as an employee when he was fully vested for his pension (probably around age sixty) and since then has been paid via a personal services contract and this getting pension and paid to work on the fifth estate.

  21. It is a start is right. One less Marxist flogging the ideological line.
    The sooner the CBC is sold off or collapses the better.

  22. I’m a 52 year old Canadian who has lived within a 1 hour or less drive from CBC headquarters all my life. I have never heard or seen this guys name in my life until now. Not going to miss what I was never aware of, and I will have forgotten his name before the end of today likely.

  24. Between the two of them,I bet their pensions total over 100,000 bucks per year, probably even more than Saint Jack and Olivia.
    If Harper makes enough cuts to CBC, he will force PM Trudeau (assuming Canadians are that stupid) to institute a TV and radio tax, just like they have in our Mother Country,and that should pi** off a lot of Canadians.
    McIntyre should have retired at 65, but I guess his ego told him he was irreplaceable. Not likely, no one will notice, no one will care.

  25. OK Gord! How does an Employee of CBC become both a private Contractor & an retired Employee. I guess you could ask Suzuki (SP) how much of CBC Production he owns. IMO CBC has been selling production rights to insiders to fund pensions. Maybe nothing left!
    a forensic audit is the only way to stop CBC cronyism from double dipping! Getting rid of waste is a first step!

  26. Angel, AIH Theme written & performed exclusively for AIH by the wonderful Moe Kaufman.

  27. A few months ago I saw a promo for a MacIntyre program where he was to stare down some of Canada’s most hardened criminals. That was just too funny!! Take a look at MacIntyre and then try to visualize him staring down anyone.

  28. Another hero of the media party, thanks to Ezra for that tag, this sanctimonious artist of deceit has done great work for the Canadian Taxpayer.
    Bringing CBC down from an unassailable icon of Canadianism, to an unwatched and not to be missed festering pile of Presstitutism.
    For this perhaps future politicians will appoint him to the Senate.
    After all, making it possible to cut CBC free from the public purse, is such a patriotic act.
    I was watching the Pro Life rally in Ottawa, this has been held every year for how many years?
    With ever increasing numbers?
    Yet only Sun TV bothers to report it?
    CBC can hold Chief Teresa Miracle Fish Stew up in our face for nearly a month, then laud the lawbreaking and vandalism of “Idle no More”, yet when it comes to real canadians engaged in civil and lawful protest…They do not exist?
    The failure of CBC to report and correct their previous misinformation is all the grounds needed to defund them.
    Completely and Today.
    From CBC lying by omission has come to be an art form.

  29. Now Alison Smith is also packing it in. Don’t kid yourself, the usual suspects will use this for all it’s worth. They will be howling about how much talent we are losing and the government must step up with more money to stop this travesty.
    I expect Margaret Atwood, Maude Barlow, Lizie May and their minions will be chiming in any time now.

  30. I remember the last time I watched The Fifth Estate. It was a long time ago when people were buying big satellite dishes and the CBC (including McIntyre) started grilling the owners and accused them of being thieves for watching TV that was officially sanctioned by CANCON.
    The CBC can’t die soon enough.

  33. But wait,there is more…
    Not only is Linden leaving, so is Alison Smith. Another CBC’er tossed out onto the street by the evil Harpo.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/alison-smith-and-linden-macintyre-leaving-cbc-1.2636117
    That would be this Alison;
    ” In 1976 she got her first job in a local CBC television newsroom at a time when videotape was 2 inches wide and teletype was on paper. Alison started as a “gopher,” then began writing as a local reporter, and from there quickly worked her way up. In 1981 she moved to The National as a reporter, and in 1989 got her first job as news anchor.”
    Just like Linden, she has 38 years under her belt with the CBC.
    If her employment contract is anything like other gov’t deals, she could have left at age 55 at a reduced pension. That would have been supplemented with a ‘bridge’ pension till age 65. I’m not privy to their pension deals, but I am very familiar with other gov’t pension deals. The CBC’s is likely better than mine.
    Both her and Linden did not retire at the first opportunity. LM 16 years ago, AS close to 5 . If they truly cared about saving dollars to pay the young workers, they would have done so years ago.
    But no, they had very well paying jobs, and quite likely are leaving now because they want to, it wouldn’t matter who was in Ottawa. Alison says ” I’ve been thinking about this for quite a long time “.
    I’ll bet she has, ever since her 55th birthday when her lucrative pension plan kicked in.
    The CBC shows its colours by linking their retirements to the Conservative gov’t.
    They show their true colours by going along with the BS.
    FIRE.THEM.ALL

  34. Don’t count old Linden MacIntyre and now Alison Smith out just yet. Like Jay Ingram and about every other has been they will be back like BO with “special assignments” and/or freelance. The trough still has too much good stuff in which to feed.
    Reminds me of another lumbering government juggernaut, the NDHQ (National Defense Headquarters). Overrun with brass, the military headquarters was the place to make connections and set yourself up for post retirement jobs in government or with contractors.

  35. What a poignant Globe and Mail article. Linden MacIntire forced (by his “altruism”) to take early retirement at 71. “I feel a great sense of bereavement…”, said Mr. MacIntire.
    He could easily have kept reading his “stories” on TV for another twenty years or so.
    And I suppose he’ll only get a tiny subsistence pension. Harper is a brute beast.

  36. All sarcasm aside, I haven’t watched ‘The Fifth Estate” for years but I suppose Linden did at one time have some talent for television. The last time I saw the program was the 2002 episode on the Richard Klassen travesty. That seemed well done.
    But that was over a decade ago and he is 71 after all.

  37. Any “Anne of Green Gables” sequels lately?
    I didn’t think so.
    They, therefore, are of no redeeming value.
    Off with their heads.

  38. Well well, now Linden and Alison can become Liberal or Dipper candidates. Election is next year, then more slopping at the trough.

  39. The CBC could have a hit pay per view program on their hands if they were to fire CBC employees en mass, en air. I would pay to watch that!

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