CBC host under fire from watchdog for ‘biased’ reporting on ‘mass immigration’

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CBC Host Ian Hanomansing made a 'value judgment' in 2023 when he said people 'want more immigrants to come to Canada.' Ombudsman Jack Nagler cautioned hosts to not confuse opinion with fact.

The state broadcaster’s watchdog called out star radio host Ian Hanomansing for a 2023 broadcast where he encouraged 'mass immigration.' He called out the host for issuing a "value judgment" not based on fact.

The episode of Cross Country Checkup strayed from balanced treatment of a contentious issue to a "value judgment," said an Ombudsman’s report. Host Hanomansing said people "want more immigrants to come to Canada."

"It was simply too easy to interpret these remarks as a value judgment," wrote Ombudsman Jack Nagler. "I agree that CBC can do better."

The radio broadcast featured an interview with Immigration Minister Marc Miller, asking, "Is it fair to increase immigration when housing is scarce?" Hanomansing again praised record immigration quotas as indispensable, prompting listener complaints, reported Blacklock’s Reporter.

Last year, Canada admitted a total of 2.3 million foreigners, including 1,040,985 foreign students, 766,250 migrant workers, and 471,550 landed immigrants. An updated Immigration Levels Plan is due in November. Continue…

Vancouver Coastal Health caught breaking access to information laws

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Vancouver Coastal Health, chaired by Premier David Eby’s special health adviser Penny Ballem, was unable to process a staggering 75% of freedom of information requests between April 2020 and March 2023.

An audit by British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner Michael Harvey has exposed Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) for routinely flouting access to information laws during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Harvey's damning report, titled Vancouver Coastal Health Authority’s Duty to Assist, reveals an organization crippled by delays, misuse of time extensions, and failure to even acknowledge many of the requests it received.

VCH, chaired by Premier David Eby’s special health adviser Penny Ballem, was unable to process a staggering 75% of freedom of information requests between April 2020 and March 2023. The organization hasn’t even posted its 2023 financial information, despite paying its CEO, Vivian Eliopoulos, over $400,000 in 2022. Continue…

Liberal MP baselessly brands journalist 'Russian asset'

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Katrina Panova, a popular political commentator known as 'Kat Kanada' on X, and who works as an independent journalist for The Counter Signal, was smeared by Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen in a now-deleted post.

Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen recently accused Katrina Panova, also known as Kat Kanada on X, of being paid by Russia to criticize him on the social media platform.

In a now-deleted post, Gerretsen asserted Panova had "a foreign government paying (her) to engage" with him, calling for Panova to be brought before a parliamentary committee to testify.

Panova joined Wednesday night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show to detail her plan to fight back. After Ezra explained how the Liberal MP attempted to backtrack on the accusation, despite not issuing an apology, Panova who works as an independent journalist for The Counter Signal, said she plans to pursue legal recourse: Continue…

Montreal Mayor defends blocking people from replying to her social media posts

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Montreal’s municipal opposition leader and a civil rights group are accusing Mayor Valérie Plante of censoring Canadians’ free speech rights after she defended her decision to block replies to her social media posts.

The mayor currently only allows limited comments from her followers on Instagram.

Plante posted screenshots of vulgar names she’s been called in a post to X on Thursday, saying that her posts have been dominated with insults for months, prompting her to block people altogether.

“Some people may believe that there is a fundamental right to call someone a “bitch” or a “stupid” and to normalize online violence. I do not,” wrote Plante. ''Continue…'

Taxpayers paid $70K for study promoting “polyamory” as healthy for kids

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The Liberal government used taxpayer funds to pay for a research study that promoted exposing kids to “polyamory” as being healthy and positive for children’s development.

On Aug. 7, Quebec researchers published an article on “Children’s views on the romantic partners of their polyamorous parents” in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

The research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a federal grant-giving body that distributes taxpayer funds to academic projects.

SSHRC communications advisor Nicole Swiaterk confirmed to True North taxpayers paid $70,662 between 2019 and 2021 for the study. Funds were awarded via the Insight Development Grants competition.

Researchers interviewed 18 children between the ages of 5 and 16 years old. Three of the children in the cohort lived in households with their parents’ multiple sexual partners. Nine of the ten households interviewed included adults who identified as LGBTQ+.

“We found that the participating children generally appreciate their parents’ romantic partners,” researchers concluded. Continue…