Keeping it Real…

It’s a level of publicly-funded budgeting, salary increases and bonuses staff that private broadcasting outlets can only dream of these days!

In 2015, there were 438 CBC employees taking home six-figure salaries, at a total cost of $59.6 million to the public, according to the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation.

This year, a whopping 1,831 CBC employees are earning six figures … averaging $131,000 each … at a total cost of $240 million!

How did this happen?

CTF research found the CBC now has, among those getting more than $100,000 a year, 181 Managers, 277 Senior Managers, 168 Senior Producers, 493 Producers, 86 Executive Producers, 36 Technical Producers and 124 Directors.

“The CBC also employed 130 advisors, 81 analysts, 120 hosts, 80 project leads, 30 lead architects, 25 supervisors, among other positions, that were paid more than $100,000 last year, according to the access-to-information records,” the CTF revealed.

That’s more than 300% increase since 2015.

Of course, all this, along with programming, costs you a lot.

“The CBC will cost taxpayers more than $1.4 Billion this year, according to the main estimates.”

All this at a time when private broadcasters have been slashing, firing and even closing down entire newsrooms across the country in the face of dwindling viewership and struggling advertising revenues.

In a Commentary in this week’s Asian Pacific Post, CTF spokesman Kris Sims, noted in 2023 the CBC announced it would be trimming its English and French staffing and programming budgets.

“Yet taxpayers’ costs still went up —from $1.3 Billion in 2023 to $1.4 Billion in 2024. Despite claims of tightening its belt, the blob keeps expanding,” Sims wrote.

“Last year, CBC drew fire for paying $18.4 million in bonuses, including $3.3 million to 45 executives. The corporation scrapped the bonuses and earned favourable headlines—then quietly approved $38 million in pay raises for 2024-25. The hikes went to 6,295 employees at an average of $6,000 each, with no pay cuts. In comparison, raises cost $11.5 million the year before,” the Taxpayer group’s director revealed. (Read the full article: https://asianpacificpost.com/article/10374-cbc-spending-soars-while-viewers-tune-out.html.)

Despite all the spending … and public subsidies … Canadians are tuning the CBC out.

In late 2024, Ottawa Life zeroed in on CBC’s declining audience share:

“Even with billions in extra revenue since 2015, CBC’s audience has continued to dwindle. The network currently holds a 4.4 percent audience share for prime-time TV, meaning 95.6 percent of Canadians are opting out of CBC content. Its local TV newscasts have fared even worse, with just 319,000 viewers across twenty-seven programs, representing less than 1 percent of Canadians,” reporter Dan Donovan revealed. (Read his full story: https://www.ottawalife.com/article/cbc-decline-biassed-coverage-broken-trust-and-failed-leadership-at-a-once-cherished-network/)

The Taxpayers’ organization says this year, the ratings are even worse.

” CBC News Network’s prime-time share—the percentage of TV viewers watching during evening hours—is just 1.8 per cent, meaning 98 per cent of Canadians choose something else. No CBC entertainment show ranks in the national top 10.”

Readers of this blog are well aware of my own criticisms of CBC’s bias, one-sided, advocacy-style “reporting” in a number of areas/issues, which I believe makes a mockery of the CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices.

Among the stated Principles: Fairness; Balance; Impartiality. (Read their full stated policies here: https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/vision/governance/journalistic-standards-and-practices/introduction).

(Hard not to laugh while typing that!!)

Donovan found my criticisms are shared by other Canadians:

” The CBC has faced increasing criticism in recent years for biased reporting, particularly accusations of leaning towards left-wing perspectives and failing to provide balanced coverage.

“One of the most notable examples is its handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict, where a directive from CBC’s Editor in Chief on October 7, 2023, that CBC reports should not label Hamas as a terrorist organisation raised serious concerns about its impartiality,” Donovan said.

So, the Canadian government OFFICIALLY designates Hamas a “terrorist” organization … but the CBC … publicly funded by the Canadian government and taxpayers … arbitrarily decides NOT to call it that.

As a result, CBC began regularly quoting casualty figures provided by Hamas health authorities … without warning viewers their source was designated a terrorist group.

Canadian viewers have the right to know! Or at least, they used to!

Today, it’s even worse: watch/listen closely and you’ll note the CBC now often quotes/trusts figures provided by “local” health authorities or “Gaza” health officials or “Palestinian” officials … no mention of their Hamas links at all.

Coverup? Censorship? Whitewashing?

Apparently, it’s to hell with Canada’s Official policies … and the CBC’s own Journalistic Standards requiring impartiality, fairness and balance.

CBC propaganda-style journalism today disgraces not only its own once-proud history … it disgraces journalism itself.

“In the end, this isn’t about one broadcaster. It’s about whether Ottawa will hold a taxpayer-funded institution accountable when it grows beyond its purpose and loses much of the audience it was meant to serve,” concluded the CTF this week.

Time to clean house … restore CBC’s once-cherished principles … and cut back on the public largesse funding the CBC that exists today.

Harv Oberfeld

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The Christian worshippers had come from near and far to celebrate their church’s Silver Jubilee and, ironically, “pray for peace”.

“Attackers came in and they beheaded Christians in the church,” a witness later reported.

“The jihadis killed those they met in the church hall. Those who tried to flee, they caught them and killed them in the compound. And then some others who managed to run towards the road, those also were caught and killed. All of them were killed with machetes.”

“Nine of those who were decapitated in Sunday’s DRC attack were children. Several other children, the number isn’t clear, were abducted. The attackers were members of the Islamist Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a sanctioned rebel group with roots in Uganda,” Fox News reported.

Islamic terrorists had murdered 49 Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo … only two weeks ago … but what I found most curious, and disgraceful, is how little coverage this Islamic terrorist barbarity received in Canada’s media!

The church was burned to ashes.

“Christians are not even sleeping in their houses at night,” according to Henrietta Blyth, CEO of Open Doors UK and Ireland (a Christian outreach organization.). “They would rather sleep in the jungle at risk of wild animals than be sitting ducks in their houses when the extremists attack. In Sub-Saharan Africa, we think that more than 16 million Christians have been displaced as a result of the violence. The church is on the run. “

(You can read the full story here: https://www.foxnews.com/world/exclusive-eyewitness-testimony-reveals-horrific-details-deadly-church-attack-african-nation.)

Looks like a pretty newsworthy story to me! But little or no coverage in the Canadians media? Why?

Especially questionable when you compare the MASSIVE coverage that went on for days by all Canadian news networks and newspapers the very same month when a single errant Israeli shell accidentally struck a church in Gaza, killing three.

Quite a contrast!

In fact, you likely do not know, in Canada, that the latest annual report from Open Door International lists eight Islamic nations in its Top 10 countries where Christians are being persecuted, murdered and their churches/institutions destroyed. (Read their findings here: https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/.)

Seen that story covered?

Or the Canadian media coverup of what’s been happening in the Islamic Republic of Iran during/since its latest war with Israel?

“Iran says it arrested 21,000 ‘suspects’ during 12-day war with Israel-US,” said the headline on Al Jazeera, the Qatari Arabic news network, last Tuesday. (Other reports say the number is closer to 27,000.) (Full story here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/12/iran-says-it-arrested-21000-suspects-during-12-day-war-with-israel-us.)

More than 20,000 civilians … businessmen, professionals, students, teachers, shopkeepers, workers, minority group members etc … rounded up, taken to Iranian prisons for interrogation, likely torture and, more often than not, resulting in spurious charges that lead to almost guaranteed findings of “Guilty”.

Imagine their trauma/suffering and the agony of their families!

I haven’t seen that huge number given much, or in some cases, any coverage on Canadian radio, TV or newspapers. Did you?

The Norwegian-based group, Iran Human Rights, has also reported “at least 343 exe­cu­tions in Iran in the first four months of 2025 — a 75% increase over the same peri­od in 2024.” (Details: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/iran-sees-75-increase-in-executions-during-first-four-months-of-2025-over-2024.)

Think it would be ignored if any Christian, Buddhist, Hindu nation … or Israel …arrested so many so fast or executed so many in such a short period?

Once more, however, brutality by an Islamic extremist regime gets a pass from Canada’s media! Why?

And then there was Canadian media’s handling of the horrid violence by Sunni Islamic extremists against Syria’s Shia-affiliated Druze minority.

Foreign networks/media worldwide reported in detail … complete with bone-chilling closed-circuit hospital videos … Syrian Sunni troops entering a Druze hospital in Suweida, rounding up staff, patients, and then massacring what one news agency said was 300 of them, including “an eight-year-old disabled boy shot in the head”. (Check out the BBC report: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly84jn000do.)

Other videos showed Bedouin Sunni thugs humiliating and slaughtering more than a thousand Druze elders and civilians … ironically, until Israeli troops crossed the border into Syria and stopped the attacks … but again, the degree of terrible brutality by Islamic extremists against the Druze was largely downplayed, and the videos held back, by much of Canada’s media.

And speaking of videos, just this past week, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) barred a CANADIAN documentary about an Israeli grandfather’s experiences after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas Islamic terrorist massacre (that left 1,200 dead and 251 taken hostage).

TIFF claimed they banned the film because it contained Hamas-shot videos of atrocities without getting Hamas’ written approval before being shown.

Seriously!!!!

I searched but could not find a single case of ANY Film Festival EVER requiring permission from, say, the Nazis, for use of film footage the Nazis shot of their victims arriving on trains at concentration camps and being sorted/classified; or, permission being required from the Khmer Rouge for leaked footage they took during their slaughter of 2.4 million civilians in Cambodia; or, permission being required from US soldiers who filmed themselves torching Vietnamese villages before the videos went public

So why now, at the formerly respected … and often provocative … TIFF?

Syndicated columnist/commentator Warren Kinsella speculated.

“So, what persuaded TIFF to bar the film? Was it Qatar? It, too, is a fair question, because the relationship between TIFF and the Doha Film Institute has grown exponentially since 2019. Qatar has funded many anti-Semitic and anti-Israel boycott campaigns in recent years — along with its documented support for Hamas and its terrorism,” Kinsella wrote. (Read his full analysis here: https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/kinsella-is-qatar-steering-tiffs-ship.)

Scary!

After huge public backlash, TIFF backed down and will allow the film to be shown.

Now watch for the wall to wall “news” coverage given the pro-Islamic protestors and activists who show up when the film gets scheduled!

Meanwhile this weekend, Iraqi officials began excavating a mass grave where Islamic ISIS terrorists massacred 4,000 Azidi Zoroastrian minority civilians … just part of the 400,000 people reportedly killed by ISIS Islamic extremists. The story has been covered, complete with video, elsewhere, but haven’t noted it even mentioned here. (https://news.sky.com/video/iraq-begins-excavations-of-isis-mass-grave-13413776_

Getting the picture? (Likely, not … in Canadian media!)

What’s going on?

Why are Islamic terrorists getting so many Free Passes? Why is the brutality by extremist Islamic regimes being barely covered … or ignored? Why are so many murders/attacks on Christians and others by violent Islamists ignored?

Canadian news viewers and readers, including our own Muslim citizens … the vast majority of whom are law-abiding moderates … deserve to be told the truth, the full truth about radical Islam’s continuing ACTIVE brutality against anyone who stands in the way of their jihadi ambitions.

But it sure looks to me like much of Canada’s media are kowtowing to Islamic lobbyists or pro-Islamic activists in their own midst (producers, writers, reporters) to whitewash, downplay or totally ignore newsworthy stories that expose radical Islam’s continuing use of ruthless savagery to not only dominate/suppress their own people, but subjugate or eliminate us “infidels” as well.

Instead, we are overwhelmingly getting heavily weighted stories, featuring one-sided videos and one-sided interviews, with few or sometimes no counterpoints/interviews at all. Terrible journalism!

Pay attention also to the “experts” invited to comment or write Op-ed pieces …. sometimes so biased, so selective, and so one-sided, they are actually quite easy to spot … and just dismiss as propaganda.

And Canada’s media wonder why fewer are listening, watching or reading!

If you do care at all about what’s really going on around the world, including where radical Islam is still on the move … inflicting its brutality, check out foreign news sources on the Internet.

Because Canada’s media won’t tell you much!

Harv Oberfeld

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