When you subsidize an organization, it has no reason to be competitive. That’s the CBC.They are not really trying to keep up with the times.
The CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards is a great idea to promote Canadian talent. Unfortunately Radio 3 don’t have the time or initiative to make their web page compatible with mobile devices that most of the audience use. Continue reading
Eastern Graphic publisher Paul MacNeill (photo CBC)
CBC – Graphic publisher Paul MacNeill has a problem with the conclusion, given the review was based on only four, narrow questions.
MacNeill is aware of at least one appeal for information that has been at the information and privacy commissioner’s office for two years.
Journalism professor Fred Vallance-Jones, who ran the audit, said the audit was never meant to be definitive. It is deliberately simple in the questions it asks, so government doesn’t have an excuse for not releasing the information in a complete and timely manner.
Related – PEI shines in national access to information audit
CBC and The Star falsify tax costs for 'the story' - click for larger graph
In the rush to get a headline, both CBC and The Star have resorted to distorting the facts about companies who help Canadians with disabilities.
When the basic facts in a story are wrong, how can we rely on the rest of the story for balanced reporting?
The truth behind the Disability Tax Credit is the real scandal. Continue reading
Salvation Army a Victorian era charity still needed to help the poor in Canada
During the coldest week of winter, people on Prince Edward Island who are living in poverty discovered that the Salvation Army has run out of emergency oil support.
Disability Tax Credit is only worth $1,000 and less than 40% of taxpayers who qualify get it (illustration Stephen Pate)
Stories this week in the Toronto Star and on CBC Investigative Reports mislead the public into believing the cost of the Tax Credit is spiraling out of control at $5.9 billion annually.
The truth that the DTC costs taxpayers $415 million, 7% of the CBC report. Neither media would correct their stories.
Less than 40% of Canadians with disabilities who qualify are able to get past the gate keepers at the Canada Revenue Agency.
See - Dispelling the myths about controversial Disability Tax Credit
The CBC and Star purport to be running an expose of National Benefit Authority, a company which helps the disabled get their deductions. More about that later.
Both stories are full of whopping distortions. We emailed the reporters with the facts but they did not correct their stories. Continue reading
CBC story attacks NBA who help Canadians with disabilities get their tax deductions (photo CBC)
The CBC is attacking a company that helps people with disabilities prepare their tax returns properly.
The story is rife with half-truths, innuendo and bias. CBC does not put the story in context of the 1 million Canadians who qualify for the Disability Tax Credit but don’t get it. Continue reading
image: a creative revolution
Driving home, I was listening to CBC interview some guy about Anderson House. They are upgrading the kitchen and other facilities.
Reporter Karen Mair asked him “What is it like for women to have a place like Anderson House.”
“What would he know what it’s like to have Anderson House?” asked the woman who was driving me. Continue reading
Ontario Rehab flash mob campaign for disability awareness (photo Toronto Rehab)
Toronto Rehab is conducting a unique flash mob campaign to raise awareness of disability. 1 in 2 will be touched by disability, “either personally or in their immediate family.” (video after the story break)
In Toronto, the flash mobs have been doing street theatre with people in t-shirts marker “1″ and “2″ to illustrate how pervasive disability is.
“We want to take the campaign to the streets at a grassroots level, in addition to more formal channels,” Jennifer Ferguson, vice-president of marketing & communications, explained in a phone interview.
“Reactions were mixed – some people just walk on by, but others stop and take a moment to look and read, and told their friends “there’s something weird going on,” she added. (City TV News) Continue reading
Press release journalism results in false story
CBC’s code of journalistic ethics says that “The information conforms with reality and is not in any way misleading or false.” Yet in the case of their June 18th story they claimed Parks Canada had spent $500,000 making Brackley Beach more accessible. Parks Canada spent the money but the beach is not accessible by any reasonable standards.
Will they correct the story or is this another example of the lazy and arrogant news reporting at CBC Charlottetown? Continue reading
Yogi Fell one of three UPEI employees to get their job back photo - CBC
CBC News – The University of Prince Edward Island has been ordered by the P.E.I. Human Rights Commission to rehire three employees who were forced to retire in 2005.
The commission ruled in February that the university’s mandatory retirement policy was discriminatory.
Last week, the group ordered the university to reinstate Thomy Nilsson, Richard Willis and Yogi Fell, and pay each complainant for loss of income and damages.
The commission also ordered UPEI to cease its policy of mandatory retirement, something the university had continued despite losing its case.
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Father George Smith, removed from his duties at a PEI (CBC)
The buzz around Charlottetown is about Father Smith and allegations he was sexually improper with a man two decades ago.
No allegations against P.E.I. priest brought to police writes the Guardian.
Priest allegations reported years ago: bishop on the CBC site is closed to comments.
Considering the notoriety of the story and the anguish this gives many Roman Catholics, the lack of a public forum on the CBC website is wrong. It smacks of censorship.
Manipulation of the public by the media is common. In this case it’s our publicly funded CBC who want to shut down public comment.