====== CBC News ======

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**CBC News** is the English-language news station for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada). CBC/Radio-Canada is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television. The English- and French-language service units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada respectively, and both short-form names are also commonly used in the applicable language to refer to the corporation as a whole.((Makarenko, J. (2010, June 1). //The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.// Re:politics. https://archive.ph/6NLPQ)) ((//Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.// WikiSpooks. Retrieved January 2, 2022, from https://archive.ph/nbCWA))

===== COVID-19 =====

==== Pharmaceutical Propaganda ====

  * Benadryl (a [[Johnson & Johnson]] product)((//On CBC News November 2019.// (2019, November). LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/z-abdurrahman-draforallergy/detail/overlay-view/urn:li:fsd_profileTreasuryMedia:(ACoAACBs6mkBViF9zPagONeFUz1yW8SWu9Oh-Dg,1574308226409)/))
  * Downplaying concerns about allergic reactions to ingredients in the [[COVID-19]] vaccine products including [[polyethylene glycol]] (PEG).((//Clinical allergist answers key questions about vaccine.// (2020, December 15). CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1831981635920))
  * Reiterating severe adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines such as [[anaphylaxis]] are not common and that the focus should be on the “thousands who are being inoculated and tolerating it well."((//Severe COVID-19 vaccine reactions like anaphylaxis not common, says specialist.// (2020, December). CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1833481795921))
  * Commented “insect venom that could trigger a reaction in people in this situation is not a component in the vaccine profiles” in response to a situation where a woman didn’t want to take the COVID-19 shot because she had previously suffered an allergic reaction to the flu shot and had a honey bee allergy.((Ghonaim, H. (2021, January 21). //Covid vaccination requirement means lost opportunity for Guelph, Ont., nurse.// CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/guelph-nurse-waterloo-health-covid-mandatory-vaccination-1.5873659))
  * In November 2021, featured [[Zainab Abdurrahman]] and [[Supriya Sharma]], [[Heath Canada]]'s chief medical adviser, to discuss COVID-19 injections for children.((Bresnahan, R. (2021, November 22). //Experts answer your questions about kids and COVID-19 vaccines.// CBC Radio. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1976583235889))

===== Funding =====

CBC/Radio-Canada has received substantial financial assistance from the [[Government of Canada]] under Prime Minister [[covid-19_pandemic:politics:justin_trudeau|Justin Trudeau]].((Ronnie. (2020, November 5). //Media In Canada Obedient To Gov’t Covid Narrative Largely Because Of Subsidies.// Canuck Law. https://archive.ph/44WNq)) In May 2019, Trudeau joked that the reason the media let him and his party off easy is “because we paid them $600,000,000.00,” which he indeed did pay.((Free Your Mind. (2021, September 20). //JUSTIN TRUDEAU BUSTED ON CAMERA ADMITTING OF BUYING OUT CANADIAN NEWS MEDIA WITH TAXPAYERS MONEY.// BitChute; EUMELs Media Library. https://archive.ph/8FUaA)) ((Fildebrandt, D. (2020, October 10). //How Trudeau bought the media.// The Western Standard; Wildrose Media Corp. https://web.archive.org/web/20201023221550/https://westernstandardonline.com/2020/10/how-trudeau-bought-the-media/))

  * [[http://archive.today/2023.04.19-084728/https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/impact-and-accountability/finances/annual-reports/ar-2018-2019/financial-sustainability/revenue-and-other-funds|2018-2019 Annual Report - Revenue and Other Sources of Funds]]
===== Criticism =====

Former employee [[Tara Henley]] reportedly fielded increasing numbers of complaints about CBC before she quit and moved to writing on [[Substack]], saying "to work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity."((Henley, T. (2022, January 3). //Tara Henley: Why I quit the CBC.// National Post. https://archive.ph/rp3zX)) 

In a letter to members of the [[People's Party of Canada]], leader [[Maxime Bernier]] emphasized Henley's statement that the CBC is now "an explicitly racist organization" - “To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person, and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others. It is, in my newsroom, to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book; to actively book more people of some races and less of others.”((Bernier, M. (2022, January 7). //The CBC is a Racist Organization.// People’s Party of Canada. https://www.campfire.wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=the_cbc_is_a_racist_organization.pdf))