Blacklock’s Reporter – Are Canadians being mean to CBC journalists?
A Whole Lot of Rosie
The Counter Signal- Rosemary Barton’s fact check contradicts the facts, CBC issues rare correction
Conservatives Pounce!
“When Republicans screw up, that’s the story. When Democrats screw up, the Republicans’ reaction is the story.” – Jim Treacher
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pounced on a government report that he argues predicts a “terrifying” world in 2040 to warn voters of the dangers of giving the Liberals a fourth term — but the actual report is far more nuanced.
@joe_warmington– Here’s my question to @PierrePoilievre today — I was heckled and berated for asking it by other media. It offers insight to me why they perhaps were not offered a seat on the bus.
Things You’ll Finally See On The CBC
@jonkay – For those following the bizarre afterlife of Canada’s 2021 “unmarked graves” social panic, we’ve hit a landmark of sorts. It’s now been almost 4 years, & CBC is finally admitting no graves have been found at any of the locations once identified by GPR tech as “potential” graves.
Your Moral and Intellectual Superiors
Your Moral and Intellectual Superiors
The Question Answers Itself
Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC
CBC's Rosemary Barton is having a difficult time giving Doug Ford the W. pic.twitter.com/6RhqGuHukN
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) February 28, 2025
Things You Won’t See On CBC
Failing Upwards
Nobody watches the CBC so let’s give them a truckload of more money.
National Post- Liberals want to nearly double CBC funding, as an investment in ‘national security’
Well, Rats!
Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge will not seek re-election, Radio-Canada has learned.
But first, she needs to shovel money out the door.
But before she goes, St-Onge plans to fulfil a key part of her mandate letter as Heritage Minister.
According to information obtained by Radio-Canada, this week St-Onge will unveil her proposal to modernize CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate in the Broadcasting Act, which has not been reviewed since 1991.
h/t Mike
I Want A New Country
Coulda Had A Pipeline
CBC's Cullen doesn't like Scott Moe's answer on interprovincial trade barriers, so he lets her her know exactly where he stands on pipelines
Cullen "How likely really looking at the commercial environment right now is it that we would see a west east pipeline in Canada?"
Moe… pic.twitter.com/tt7RpXdN1i
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) February 10, 2025
Things You See On CBC
Shocking News
Justin’s CBC may not be a good source for information. Paywall but you get the drift.
It’s Not Fair
Blacklock’s- Media Unfair, Say CBC Execs
“Very disappointing and frustrating,” wrote Chuck Thompson, CBC chief of staff to the executive vice president. Thompson in an August 12 email complained media “gave us no time” to justify yearly bonuses worth $14.9 million.
Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC
Someone has audience envy.
Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop
Truck driver and trucker advocate Gord Magill delves into the problems with the North American trucking industry and carnage that has resulted from decades of poor decisions.
The Motor Carrier Act of 1980, passed by President Jimmy Carter, introduced sweeping reforms to how trucking was regulated, who could become a motor carrier (literally anyone), and removed government control and oversight of rates that carriers could charge their customers. This piece of legislation has been blamed by many for all of the woes in trucking for decades now, and one of the most infamous scholarly works on this change, that ought to be read by everyone, is called Sweatshops on Wheels : Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation. I interviewed the author, Dr Michael Belzer, an economics professor at Wayne State University in Michigan and former trucker, for my podcast, which you can listen to here.
In what should have been a surprise to no one that understands economics, the opening of the market to anyone with a pulse lead to an immediate environment of cut-throat competition which exists to this day, and is one of the reasons why truck drivers in 2024 are earning, on average, in inflation adjusted dollars, 50% of what they earned in 1980.
Justin’s CBC Needs Money
The CBC said it could use another half billion dollars a year. Paywall but you get the drift (Or is it grift)
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Catherine Tait and crew have to be a Pierre Poilievre sleeper cell.
Payments to CBC vice presidents are a half million each, CEO Catherine Tait yesterday disclosed at the Commons heritage committee. One Liberal MP defended the pay, saying executives were motivated by “love of country.”
More, from Dan Knight.