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1. Ooof!! Glad I don’t wake up to that in the morning.

   1. Yep.

      1. Women with hair that color are inevitably c-r-a-z-eeeee

         1. Imagine if the drapes actually match the curtains!

      2. BTW, why wasn’t Adrienne Arsenault interviewing her in person, was Tait staying at her house in Brooklyn?

         Tait’s voice and demeanour make Nurse Ratched seem like Audrey Hepburn! I assume she’s heavily medicated to boot.

         1. Very classy, Arse-nault. Asking the boss about your bonus on air.

   2. No amount of cosmetic surgery or jewelry …

2. Typical of the CBC, its article starts with a Big Lie. The lie: 10% of the workforce is being cut:

   “The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio-Canada announced Monday that it plans to cut about 10 per cent of its workforce and axe some programming to cope with a potential $125 million budget shortfall.
   In a news release, the public broadcaster said it plans on cutting 600 union and non-union positions across the entire organization.”

   Uncovering the lie: if 600 positions are being cut and that is supposedly 10% of the CBC workforce, then the workforce must be 6,000. But that is not true; it understates the CBC’s workforce by over 50%. The CBC’s actual workforce is 9,260, consisting of “6,500 permanent employees, about 2,000 temporary workers and roughly 760 contract staff at the end of March.”

   https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/12/04/cbc-says-it-is-cutting-600-jobs-some-programming/

   The 600 job cuts from 9,260 employees therefore actually represents 6.5%, not 10%, but the CBC “reporter” has a story to spin so to heck with the facts.

   1. Math is hard.
      And racist.
      So I’m told.

   2. There go 600 of the contract workers, OttawaMJ. No permanent workers will be cut.

      The work done by the contractors will be dealt out to the permanent employees and suitably botched by said employees.

      Next year, contractors will be brought back in to do the work the CBC employees can’t or won’t do.

      The 600 to be axed should be the 600 highest paid employees at the CBC. I’m willing to bet a dozen of Tim Horten’s finest jelly filled creations that no one would notice the difference in the CBC product.

3. Too stupid to breathe. I wonder how connected she is to have gotten a job that she she is totally unqualified for? It could not have been sex.

4. What is the point of CBC? Does it crack 1% of the viewing audience? I subscribe to Prime and Netflix plus I get hundreds more channels on free services. CBC had a function when there was 1 or 2 stations in a region but today it is beyond belief stupid – $1.3 billion?

   1. I might be okay with it, if the Liberals rightly claimed it as an election expense.

   2. I recently read that only 4% of the Canadian population watches CBC regularly.
      I do believe that CBC was necessary back in the 1930’s when the radio service was started (both English and French). And I did not mind when it moved into television (heck when I was growing up in the 1960’s, there was only CBC and CTV and your were hooped if your parents were watching the CBC and you wanted to watch “A GoGo 66” (I was 13). However with the advent of cable TV in the early 1980’s, CBC should have “stepped up their game”. They did not. For decades they relied on the monopoly of “Hockey Night in Canada”.
      I subscribe to Prime, BritBox and PBS Masterpiece. I play a game I call “Spot the British Actor before they became famous”. Like Kate, I amuse myself.

      1. Remember the media myth that Peter Gzowski’s program united Canada?

      2. I love Brit Box. I’m into old British cars so I get my fill. Spotted Collin Farrell in a series when he was a young pup. I haven’t watched domestic television since Don Cherry was fired.

5. I interpreted the question as, “ We are getting our god-given bonuses, correct?”

6. Make no mistake mainstream Canadian journalists might talk tough but they don’t support cuts at cbc.

   Legacy journalism is as dead as the buggy whip industry. Today everything is by subscription. You want news, get out your wallet. Canadians widely known as cheapskates will be reluctant to pay for something they feel entitled to get for nothing. They’d sooner pay taxes to support something and then bitch about it.

   1. “Legacy journalism” committed suicide when it went to advocacy “journalism”. That is that the goal of journalism is not to accurately report the news, but to shape history. The goal of advocacy “journalism”is to give the reader the “appropriate” context by which the “correct” opinions could be formed.

      1. Art: “The goal of advocacy “journalism”is to give the reader the “appropriate” context by which the “correct” opinions could be formed.”

         Yup. Who, what, when, where, and why died many, many years ago, Art. It was called ‘reporting’ and good reporters were respected.

         (Where’s that dang invisible upvote button? I’m gonna hit it a few times when I find it.)

   2. Too true.

   3. You kidding me?
      They, of course support the CeeBeeCee, they want to eventually end there, think of the pay, the free time, the pension plan.
      What’s not to like if you are a ‘journalist’ ?

7. Liar.
   It’s December.
   Betcha those bonuses are ‘in the mail’ already.

8. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/catherine-tait-president-of-the-cbc-lives-in-brooklyn-report

9. Wow, she doesn’t even try to hide her distain for the peasants she leads? Why do some liberal women think wearing horrible hair colors makes them attractive, she looks like she got attacked by a really bad bowl of red jello.

   1. She features her ugliness as an insult to the rest of us.

   2. She sounds like Nancy Pelosi. Kind of looks like her too.

10. Here’s a record of my viewing and listening to CBC over the last 10 years:………..

11. One is questioning 100’s of vice presidents and their deputies and the deputies of the deputies.
    Each of them being paid in the 100’s of thousands of dollars, every one.
    Though CeeBeeCee, being a government paid ‘company’ really does not need to account, in fact it can keep it secret, for the management of money.
    Yeah, the sheep will get the ax, management will be fine, they will complain after the layoffs that they can’t do the job because of ….
    The politicians will supply more of the public cash, as always.
    Poilievre said in his statements that he will defund the CeeBeeCee, heh, we will see, or not.

12. What was Adrienne Arsenault’s bonus last year? Wish she woulda asked that.

13. Over $1.3 billion a year. A starlink connection to all the remote communities would probably be considerably less expensive. The downside is that the Socialists would lose their grip on the acceptable narrative.

14. Who gets to fire Tait?

    1. Hopefully the voters when they elect PP.

15. Conan O’Brien becomes Troponin O’Brien. Story at 11.