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CBC vs Information Commissoner of Canada
CBC funding to be cut in next federal budget
November 1 and 2, 2011 - Federal Heritage Minister James Moore says the CBC’s funding will be cut in the next federal budget as part of a government wide deficit elimination plan.
We’ve gone a long way to making the CBC more accountable, smaller … their funding is today smaller than when I became minister.
- James Moore
The CBC will be part of our plan to balance the budget. The CBC’s budget next year will be smaller than it is this year.
- James Moore
Public Safety minister slams CBC for refusal to ID illegal immigrants, suspected war criminals
CBC, Liberals claim secret links between Conservative Party and NRA
“Fox News North” under fire from competitors CBC and CTV
June 15 to 16, 2020 – Sun TV News executive Kory Teneycke announced plans for a third all-news cable news channel in Canada.
The new channel, a joint venture between the Sun and Quebecor media groups, has been dubbed “Fox News North” by its opponents and competitors, and some are advocating the CRTC deny its broadcast license.
EKOS pollster ignites furor over divisive ‘culture wars’ advice
April 22 and 23, 2010 - EKOS pollster Frank Graves has ignited controversy over his recent advice to the Liberal Party that they should “invoke a culture war” on Western Canadians.
I told them that they should invoke a culture war. Cosmopolitanism versus parochialism, secularism versus moralism, Obama versus Palin, tolerance versus racism and homophobia, democracy versus autocracy. If the cranky old men in Alberta don’t like it, too bad. Go south and vote for Palin.
- Frank Graves, President EKOS Research
The Conservative Party points to the fact Graves donated over $11,000 to the Liberal Party during a time when taxpayers paid EKOS Reasearch $61 million under the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin. The Conservatives also raised questions about the CBC’s impartiality because the network always presented Graves as a “neutral pollster” in his frequent appearances on air.
Graves later apologized and denied any bias, but he repeated his calls for a culture war, and also says he has emperical proof to support his comments about Western Canadians and Conservative supporters.
There is a higher incidence of people who are less tolerant to homosexuals and more wary of other races, within the Conservative Party. I can demonstrate that empirically.
- Frank Graves, President EKOS Research
The Conservative Party has launched a letter-writing campaign protesting the CBC’s continued use of EKOS and Graves as their “pollster of record”.
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Is Maxime Bernier’s ex-girlfriend a national security risk?
May 8 and 9, 2008 – The Liberal Party and the Bloc Québécois attack the government over Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier’s former relationship with a woman who had personal ties to Quebec bikers in the 1990′s.
The government refused to answer the questions claiming they inappropriately malign the reputation of an innocent woman.
Questions about national security?
The Liberals and the Bloc insist the issue raises national security concerns, but the NDP say they are uncomfortable pursuing this line of questioning.
MPs and journalists smear Julie Couillard
Some concerns are raised over the role the Liberal Party, the Bloc and the media played in advancing and perpetuating the story.
