Tag: CBC

Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford Claims He’ll Cut CBC Even Though CBC is Not Provincially Funded

Published March 29, 2018 Gaffe Alert

Um, does Doug Ford even know what job he’s applying for?

Will 2017 be the year Canadian media finally calls out Fraser Institute’s ‘Tax Freedom Day’ gimmick?

Published June 6, 2017

It's time to end the madness of the Fraser Institute's junk "Tax Freedom Day" report once and for all.

Kevin O’Leary’s little secret: I never wear pants on TV because the CBC is ‘run by women’

Published February 28, 2017

"The thing about the CBC, I gotta tell you guys, is the whole place is run by women. I'm working for women ... It's ridiculous."

Conservative MP thinks Sun TV a more “important death” than 3 journalists who actually died

Published February 15, 2015

Um, what? On Sunday, Calgary Conservative MP Joan Crockatt tweeted some listener feedback to CBC’s The Sunday Edition, expressing her opinion that this week’s demise of the Sun TV channel was “the most important death in journalism this week” — apparently even ranking above three prominent journalists who died during the last week: Crockatt was […]

VIDEO: Fact-checking five “crazy” things Stephen Harper said to Peter Mansbridge

Published December 18, 2014

We thought Stephen Harper hit peak “crazy” last week. But the prime minister may have reached a new plateau Wednesday night, rattling off the word “crazy” a handful of times during an exchange about oil and the environment with Peter Mansbridge on CBC. Our musical “fact check” video covers some of his most outrageous statements, […]

American media praise CBC’s “nonhysterical” coverage of Ottawa shooting

Published October 23, 2014

Having reliable information in the middle of a national emergency is a good reminder of the value of responsible public broadcasting. Media critics from the (often) sensational and over-the-top American media landscape are offering high compliments to CBC for what Time describes as their “nonhysterical, fact-based live broadcasts” of Wednesday’s shooting at the National War Memorial and […]

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