CBC has whitewashed Israel’s crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand.
Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster, I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine—and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out
"In American mythology, people are rich because of 'hard work.' Yet nobody can explain why those who do all the actual labor have no money." - Steven Salaita
"Menzies said the fundamental problem with the CBC is that it’s not so much a public broadcaster as it is a publicly funded commercial broadcaster that is competing with private news organizations for eyeballs and advertising dollars."
Here's my plan for the #CBC in the age of streaming. Keep #RadioCanada as is. Keep the news. #Telefilm becomes the home for funding new video; the #NFB produces videos in house and CBC TV becomes the distributer.
#CBCRadio as is; #RadioCanada as is; CBC News as is [0]; #CBC TV as a repertory broadcaster, more like #PBS; CBC Internet as a repository of Canadian taxpayer-subsidised videos.
No more direct competition with private networks for viewers and advertising; no more US game shows; no more CBC Sports; no quest to create a new hit show that also vaunts the Canadian identity.
[0] Maybe a few minutes on the hour every hour on CBC TV, similar to CBC Radio?
"Poilievre throws hat in the ring to be Trump VP pick
“Look, why don’t you come up with a better way to thread the needle between appealing to Maxime Bernier voters and not getting yourself endorsed by Alex Jones,” strategist Jim Bleun stated. "
“university's lawyers argued that the encampment was unsafe, posing a risk of escalating tensions on campus and preventing McGill from holding its convocation ceremonies at its usual outdoor location. But St-Pierre dismissed those arguments. He said no serious or violent incident had occurred at the encampment since it was established on April 27, and even a confrontation with counter-protesters was peaceful.” #cdnpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mcgill-injunction-request-1.7203666
I’m no stan that government is our lord & saviour but people who dump on government can do anything blah blah never have shit to say about stuff like this. I just don’t understand how it’s hard to wrap your head around that profit. is. all. that. matters. That’s it. Profit will always win. Governments mostly assist in this and sometimes “have” to step in when an airplane company is out here just killing people #cdnpolihttps://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1251477809/boeing-justice-department-charges
This is not cheering for the pay workers get at Chinese EV manufacturing companies or the supply chains etc but the fact that North American car companies have made zero moves to make simple, low cost EVs is pathetic. “Flood the market” blah blah blah. There’s no free market anyway just protectionism, government subsidies and the gatekeeping to keep EVs at $50,000 a piece. Say nothing of the #climatechange song and dance about getting folks into EVs #canada#cdnpoli#ev
I guess this is also necessary for the demonization of China by conservatives and the oil and gas sector essential to sell the bit that what #canada does on #climatechange doesn’t matter globally. I’m not cheering for China or their business practices or whatever but the EV market in this country is a fucking joke. My only hope is that perpetual high EV prices force the #publictransit conversation #cdnpoli
It is beyond wild to me that the city cut annual funding to the Tulip Festival. Ya’ll are baffled on how to connect Dows Lake and the Byward Market?? Seriously?? The NCC couldn’t even close all of the QED, but no shade to them when they are responsible for any livability in #ottawa The festival weekends at Dows Lake are the best weekends in this city in the entire year and props to the Feds #onpoli#cdnpoli https://obj.ca/feds-provide-130k-canadian-tulip-festival/?no_cache=1715612135
The kid and I spent every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday last year during the festival. We watched the movies, we walked on the QED, drank lemonade and just enjoyed the space without having to listen to or be around people driving. And then this all goes away without a thought. The 6-8 seater golf carts go away, all the people walking and biking have to be squeezed back onto the worst section of MUP in the city #ottawa#onpoli#cdnpoli
"During the 2015 election, the Liberals promised to end a Canada Post program, which was then underway, converting addresses from door-to-door home delivery to community mailboxes." A bad — but politically popular — decision of the Trudeau ministry.
For more radical change, @acoyne proposed many years ago that we give #CanadaPost to the postal union and let them find solutions.
🧵 #Tiktok has picked up Trudeau’s zionism comments, he is losing support among young people, rapidly. I am not sure what Liberal told him this was a good idea after they watched Biden’s support fall off a cliff but they need better advisors. #cdnpoli
Our Prime Minister who campaigned on Truth and Reconciliation in 2015, and has made it a mandate of his government to acknowledge and work on the harms caused by settler colonialism— gave a speech this week about Zionism, a settler colonial political ideology, being perfectly acceptable in Canada 🇨🇦. You can’t make this up. #Cdnpoli