Media
CTF launches legal challenge against CBC

From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Author: Franco Terrazzano
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation launched a legal challenge against the CBC as the public broadcaster continues to stonewall the release of senior executive bonuses.
“As a matter of principle, the CBC owes transparency to the taxpayers who pay their salaries,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “The CBC is also required to follow access to information law, but in this case, they’re blatantly breaking it.”
Lawyers representing the CTF filed the legal challenge with the Office of the Information Commissioner to force the CBC to disclose how much its seven senior executives took in bonuses last year.
On March 11, the CTF filed an access-to-information request seeking details on the compensation paid out to the CBC’s seven senior executives in 2023, including bonuses.
On April 9, the CBC issued a 30-day extension notice.
As a result of the extension, the public broadcaster was required to release the records on May 10, just days after CBC President Catherine Tait testified to a parliamentary committee on May 7.
On May 10, the CBC released a record showing its seven senior executives took home $3,793,000 in total compensation – an average of more than $540,000 a piece.
But the record did not reveal how much of that compensation was bonus pay.
CBC handed out $15 million in bonuses to 1,143 staff in 2023 despite announcing hundreds of layoffs and requesting more money from taxpayers.
Crown corporations like the Bank of Canada and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation have provided bonus information for their executives in response to access-to-information requests from the CTF.
In a statement to the CTF’s lawyers, the CBC confirmed they have the requested bonus information, but are refusing to release it.
“Tait seems to think she’s above the law and shouldn’t have to show the same transparency her journalists demand from politicians,” Terrazzano said. “If Tait thinks she deserves her bonus, she should be honest with taxpayers about how much she took.
“Taxpayers have every right to know how much CBC senior executives took from them in bonuses last year. One way or another, the CTF will drag this information into the light.”
The OIC is the body responsible for investigating complaints and resolving disputes related to the federal access-to-information system.
Media
CBC retracts false claims about residential schools after accusing Rebel News of ‘misinformation’

From LifeSiteNews
CBC has issued a correction after falsely accused Rebel News of spreading misinformation while itself promoting the false claim that remains of Indigenous children were found in unmarked graves at residential schools.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has issued a correction after blaming Rebel News of “misinformation” while spreading false information itself.
On April 17, CBC corrected a comment from chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton who accused Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey of spreading “misinformation,” while repeating the false claim that bodies have been found in unmarked graves at Indigenous residential schools.
“Yes, there have been remains of Indigenous children found in various places across the country,” Barton falsely stated during a live broadcast following the French-language federal election leaders’ debate.
Her comment was in reference to New Democratic Leader (NDP) Jagmeet Singh refusing to answer a reporter’s question whether he would condemn the rash of church burnings and acts of vandalism across Canada.
“In this case you saw Mr. Singh, and this has been his position for some time, to refuse to answer questions,” Barton said during the live stream.
“Rebel News in particular traffics in misinformation, lack of facts, and as you heard in that question, which was woven with some truth and some things that weren’t true,” she claimed.
“Yes, there have been burnings of Christian, Catholic churches,” she admitted.
“Yes, there have been remains of Indigenous children found in various places around the country, which she misrepresented,” Barton falsely stated.
Despite mass excavations, there have still been no mass graves discovered at any residential schools across Canada, but politicians and media continue to promote the false narrative.
CBC was quickly called out for their false statement, which ironically came at the same time as accusing another media outlet of spreading “misinformation.”
However, even in their correction statement, CBC failed to mention that, to date, no human remains have been discovered.
“As CBC News has reported on multiple occasions, what several Indigenous communities across Canada have discovered on the sites of some former residential schools are potential burial sites or unmarked graves,” the statement read.
However, CBC is now well known for pushing the false narrative that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some of the schools. As a consequence of that false narrative, since 2021, over 100 churches have been burned or vandalized across Canada in seeming retribution.
Indeed, in addition to perpetuating the “mass graves” narrative, media and politicians have even threatened to punish those who oppose it. In October 2024, CBC ran a story which suggested that “residential school denialism” should be criminalized.
John Stossel
Climate Change Myths Part 1: Polar Bears, Arctic Ice, and Food Shortages

From StosselTV
Climate zealots tell us the end is near. It’s the era of “global BOILING!” says the UN Secretary General. Climate alarmists say the Arctic will soon be ice-free and cities will be underwater! But what do the facts say?
The facts say that the climate change fanatics’ catastrophic claims are wrong.
In this video and the next, we’ll debunk 7 myths about climate change.
First up: melting ice, polar bear extinction, and climate change famines.
Here are the sources for this video:
No new record low summer ice extent observed since 2012. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
Satellite data show average annual sea ice volume largely stable since 2010: https://psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp-c…
Total arctic ice mass: http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projec…
Polar Bear Estimates 1993-today: https://www.iucn-pbsg.org/wp-content/…
1981: https://portals.iucn.org/library/site…
1960s: https://www.google.com/books/edition/…
Global agricultural output: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ag…
NASA Greening study: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-faci…
Malnutrition deaths: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ma…
Coffee production: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#compare
After 40+ years of reporting, I now understand the importance of limited government and personal freedom. ”
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Libertarian journalist John Stossel created Stossel TV to explain liberty and free markets to young people.
Prior to Stossel TV he hosted a show on Fox Business and co-anchored ABC’s primetime newsmagazine show, 20/20.
Stossel’s economic programs have been adapted into teaching kits by a non-profit organization, “Stossel in the Classroom.” High school teachers in American public schools now use the videos to help educate their students on economics and economic freedom. They are seen by more than 12 million students every year.
Stossel has received 19 Emmy Awards and has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. Other honors include the George Polk Award for Outstanding Local Reporting and the George Foster Peabody Award.
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