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Gay Iranian Refugee Claims he was Beaten and Raped After Being Outed in CBC Doc
A gay Iranian refugee is suing the CBC, former host Evan Solomon, and producer Farid Haerinejad, claiming he was outed against his will as a homosexual in the 2007 documentary, Out in Iran: Inside...
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We Found Out How Much the CBC Really Pays Mansbridge
Google “Peter Mansbridge salary” and this is what you’ll get: That figure has been widely regarded as bullshit. When the CBC implied their star anchor might be getting as little as $80,000 per year to...
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How to make a lazy narrative fit your desired hot take
On Sunday night, as news broke that a gunman had stormed into a Quebec mosque and opened fire, people took to Twitter to get the latest information on what had taken place. Soon, word got out that...
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Stats Canada Co-author Admits To Sharing “Sensitive” Photos Of Women Online
In a Facebook post on Friday afternoon, Ren Bostelaar — one of the people behind the enormously popular @stats_canada Twitter account — confessed to sharing names and “sensitive photos” of women he...
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Can’tlit (My Stories)
Prizes, prizes, prizes galore. Some of the most stinging acts of resistance have come through the use of satire. Saturday Night Live has dedicated its cold opens for the past two years to the...
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CBC Executive Demoted After Pledging Money For “Appropriation Prize”
In 2013, Steve Ladurantaye, then a media reporter for The Globe and Mail wrote a list of 26 Twitter rules for journalists. The first and last were the same: “You are one tweet away from being fired.”...
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CBC Admits Botching Gavin McInnes Interview On Power & Politics
The CBC is admitting that it “erred” in its presentation of an interview with Gavin McInnes on Wednesday and that it failed to adequately challenge the Rebel Media personality and Proud Boys founder...
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Here’s What’s Wrong With CBC Radio
During CBC Radio’s 81 years, the public broadcaster has been the country’s most important life-line, unifying the nation and helping us understand each other and the important issues of the day. I was...
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What CBC Radio Gets Right
There is a lot to be said about the CBC. There’s a lot to be critical of, and we should be critical. But in an earlier piece written by Nick Fillmore, there is misdirected dragging of CBC Radio One’s...
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Here’s What CBC Staff Told Their Bosses About The Need For Diversity
At top: the members of the CBC’s board of directors and senior executive team. Last summer, CANADALAND published a story on the lack of diversity among CBC staff, citing an internal company survey...
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The Mystery Of The Missing Canada 150 Project
Back in the spring, Vox Pop Labs — a public opinion research company best known for its Vote Compass and widely derided MyDemocracy.ca surveys — was supposed to launch a Canada 150 “signature project”...
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CBC Repurposes Advertisement As Programming
Last month, the CBC Radio program The Doc Project ran a documentary produced by an advertorial podcast company called Pacific Content. The documentary, “‘Time is limited, let’s have at it’ — one man’s...
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You Don’t Have To Talk About Muslims When You Talk About Mass Killings
Several mainstream Canadian columnists have pointed out how the van rampage that killed 10 people along Toronto’s Yonge Street on Monday resembled recent vehicle attacks by Muslim terrorists in cities...
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CBC Increasing Security At Toronto HQ Following “Incel” Threat
The CBC is increasing security at its downtown Toronto headquarters following the discovery of a post on a popular “incel” message board that encouraged the “shooting up” of the building. “The Toronto...
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CBC Often Reports Competitors’ Scoops Without Credit
On Sunday, April 29, CBC’s The Weekly with Wendy Mesley opened with a report concerning an American far-right paramilitary group that had expanded north of the border. “An investigation done by The...
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What Happens When Another Media Outlet Takes Your Name
On May 7, CBC Vancouver launched a new radio call-in show called BC Today. On June 7, Postmedia launched a national current-affairs podcast titled 10/3. And on June 12, former Toronto Star and Boston...
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Barbara Kay Quotes Neo-Nazi To Justify Attack On Trans Identity
“The philosopher Voltaire famously observed, ‘To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize,'” Barbara Kay wrote at the start of a recent column for Montreal-based...
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What We Know About The Assault On Sun Photographer Stan Behal
Courtesy of freelance journalist Niza Nondo, here is the unedited video of the assault on Toronto Sun photographer Stan Behal that occurred at Nathan Phillips Square last Saturday: The video has...
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Fact-Checking Jian Ghomeshi’s Comeback Attempt
Jian Ghomeshi’s essay in The New York Review of Books, titled “Reflection from a Hashtag,” chiefly concerns his suffering, how his friends betrayed him, and how he was wronged by an ex-girlfriend,...
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CBC Alleges Former Manager Engaged In “Destructive” Misconduct
When the CBC was sued by a former employee for wrongful dismissal last year, the public broadcaster filed a statement in response that included a laundry list of alleged bad behaviour that would get...
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