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>I wasn't aware of that. Do you have any example? From my understanding CBC and Radio-Canada are still by far the best and most neutral medias in Canada.

An excellent write up by Tara https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/speaking-freely?s=r

There's really too many examples. CBC publicly admitted they wont hire caucasians anymore. They have an official, ombudsman confirmed, position that racism against white people is not possible.

Microaggressions, etc etc. Hell even an article says you must get consent to hug your own 2 year old.

There was an article in Urdu, no english translation available. When you translate it, it basically said canadians are stealing pakistani babies. The government then when this comes out bans adoptions from muslim countries.

How about the endless examples of fake news. They themselves were selling 'white power' tshirts and wrote articles about how white supremacy in Canada is out of control. Then other media realized the guy who was selling the shirts works for the CBC. Then suddenly it was just a social experiment.

Then again... they were calling for the denazification of the freedom protest. CBC full frame dslr photographers just happened to know where a nazi flag was in ottawa and followed them through the day. Generally speaking they labelled a ton of punjabi truckers as white supremacists. Who thought it was hilarious.

>This started under Harper and IMO is one of the worst things he's done to the country (although he made a lot of other terrible decisions). I really hope that, if 2025 is a conservative win, CBC will be left untouched.

Scheer and Otoole ran on defunding the CBC. Pierre Poillivre looks like he has leadership in the bag and is quite public about defunding the CBC.

Let's also discuss the elephant in the room. Trudeau will have been in power for 10 years in 2025. 3 more years of corruption and scandal coming, assuming the NDP continue to support him. He already lost last election. He currently has the weakest government in history. His confidence push on emergency act forced Jagmeet's hands. Jagmeet compares himself to Jack Layton and Tommy Douglas but that is so beyond offensive. This coalition they have is also quite unpopular, but it's the only way either of them stay in power.

Though in their coalition agreement they were quite clear about significant changes to how our elections work, including making election day 3 days long.

The CBC will be getting defunded so long as the election isn't rigged.

Then again smearing the protest as a bunch of racists and then crushing the peaceful protest and further removing our rights? Never actually addressing the reason for the protest, just continued restrictions on our rights?

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-help-offset-fo...

There's a known factor: https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-russia-bread-food-pr...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/08/22/the-arab-spring...

If Trudeau is predicting correctly that we are going to have food shortages. He better address this unjustified use of the emergency act and give us a roadmap of returning our rights.

Otherwise, when the weather is nice and people are getting a bit hungry... they'll be heading to Ottawa.




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