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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s week-long family vacation in Jamaica over the winter holidays cost taxpayers at least $162,000, and is drawing criticism that it shows he does not “understand the realities of everyday Canadians” from NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. The outlet reported the Trudeau family stayed at a luxurious estate belonging to a wealthy family friend who made a large donation two years ago to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. It would not say whether Trudeau declared this trip as a gift under the conflict of interest act or the code for MPs. The Trudeau Foundation confirmed on Tuesday the Greens, the family CBC/Radio-Canada reported Trudeau stayed with, are donors to the charity. The prime minister has repeatedly said he has not been involved with the foundation since that time.

“Consequently, we will be pausing our activity on our corporate Twitter account and all CBC and Radio-Canada news-related accounts.”CBC is also halting activities on Twitter for its sports, entertainment, and radio accounts. Elon Musk, who has been open in his hostility to media outlets for the past several months, responded quickly to CBC’s decision. He ordered his staff to change the label of the news outlet, which initially read, “70% Government-funded Media,” to 69%. Other outlets that have been labeled as “government-funded” include Australia’s ABC News and New Zealand public broadcaster RNZ. After NPR announced it was quitting Twitter, Musk made a series of posts including “Defund NPR” and falsely accused the organization of updating its website to remove the part that said federal funding is “essential to public radio,” adding the commentary “What hypocrites!”

An Ontario parent advocacy study (People for Education 2022) provided a pan-Canadian scan of Canadian K-12 COVID-related education plans that was very revealing. New school options, previously considered improbable solutions, look more attractive, such as independent education, virtual schools and pandemic learning pods (Bennett 2021c). Reinventing Education: Learning from the Powerful Lessons of the Pandemic. “Shore Up the Foundations for Future-Proof Education.” Education Canada (March 17). “Taking Action to Limit Learning Impacts from the Pandemic.” Education Canada (March 23).

The Wild controlled the first period and was rewarded on the power play with 1-0 lead. Things turned early in the second period on the Stars’ power play. Robertson scored on a wrist shot from beyond the left circle on another power play. In exactly nine seconds on the power play, the Star had two goals – equaling their total from the seven games against Calgary in the first round last season. Although the Stars outshot the Wild 17-6 and received the only power-play chance, they weren’t able to get the puck past Gustavsson.

Construction is now underway on Phase 2 of the housing development at the former CBC/Radio-Canada building site in Montreal, but it won't include any social housing. The Auguste & Louis project has 253 units, with pricing for studios starting at $290,000 and two-bedroom units going for $660,000 and up. Although Montreal 10 per cent affordable and 10 per cent social housing units in building plans, developers from Devimco said they have instead made a contribution to the city to buy out of the social housing requirement. By doing this, said James Goulet, vice-president of acquisitions and development for Devimco, the company can sell at $750 per square foot, which he said is a relatively good deal for the area. Sixty per cent of the units in the building have already been purchased.

Why all the fuss about Twitter describing the CBC as “government-funded media”? The CBC is government-funded media. It doesn’t mean that its journalists are incompetent (some of the best journalists I’ve met in my long career work for the CBC). It doesn’t mean that all of its shows are lousy. It doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t continue.

Elon Musk has been making a point to label publicly-funded news organizations as such on Twitter. After he did it to NPR last week, CBC is the latest news outlet labelled as government-funded. As a result of the labelling, CBC announced it will be pausing its Twitter accounts. An example of state media would be the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company where the government actively controls its editorial decisions. It’s unclear if or when CBC will return to Twitter or if Twitter will ever make the distinction between government-funded news organizations and state media in its policies.

Hospital leaders say the new initiative will cut the number of people waiting for joint replacement surgeries in Toronto by 25 per cent by April 2024. Dr. Carmine Simone, vice-president of medical affairs at Michael Garron Hospital, said TRAC decided to go a different route by using existing hospital infrastructure and scaling up staffing numbers for weekend surgeries. Currently, TRAC includes orthopedic surgeons from Sunnybrook and Michael Garron, with the hope that other Toronto-area hospitals will join in the coming months. During its first six months, the collaborative aims to complete 16 surgeries each weekend. Dr. Paul Wong, chief of orthopedics at Michael Garron Hospital, completed seven joint surgeries during the first weekend.

Twitter and the CBC were in the spotlight yesterday with Twitter’s decision to add a “government funded media” label to the CBC Twitter account. The government funding for CBC is undeniable, but the inclusion of “government involvement over editorial content” is apt to mislead. That debate distracts from serious underlying problems with government media policy and the public broadcaster. The government portrays itself as a defender of the independent press, typically pointing to media funding, both in the form of increases to the CBC allocation and tax policy that supports other media outlets. While government policies may be hurting the independent press, the CBC has done little to bolster the case for the public broadcaster.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Monday joined other public broadcasters in “pausing” its Twitter activity, after Twitter applied a “government-funded media” label to its accounts. The CBC wrote on their main account, “Our journalism is impartial and independent. “CBC/Radio-Canada is publicly funded through a parliamentary appropriation that is voted upon by all Members of Parliament,” Mar stated. Musk then changed it again to read “69% government-funded media.”Musk’s push to label independent public broadcasters as being government-affiliated comes as more and more organizations pull back from Twitter. As of November, 50 of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers had either announced or seemingly stopped advertising on the platform.

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That is why we are pausing our activities on (Twitter), “ CBC tweeted on Monday. “Canadian Broadcasting Corp said they’re “less than 70% government-funded”, so we corrected the label,” Mr Musk wrote in a tweet. “Twitter’s own policy defines government-funded media as cases where the government ‘may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content,’ which is clearly not the case with CBC/Radio-Canada,” he said. “CBC/Radio-Canada is publicly funded through a parliamentary appropriation that is voted upon by all Members of Parliament. Its editorial independence is protected in law in the Broadcasting Act.”CBC says that Twitter did not give them any notice of the change it was making.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is pausing its use of Twitter after the social media platform labeled it “government-funded media.”The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. paused its use of Twitter on Monday after the social media platform stamped CBC’s account with a label the public broadcaster says is intended to undermine its credibility. Twitter labeled CBC/Radio-Canada “government-funded media” — the same label that prompted National Public Radio in the U.S. to similarly quit Twitter last Wednesday. CBC has sent a letter to Twitter, which is owned by Elon Musk, asking the company to re-examine the designation. Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the opposition Conservative Party of Canada, had urged Twitter to label CBC a state-funded body. Twitter later changed the label to “government-funded media,” but to NPR — which relies on the government for a tiny fraction of its funding — it’s still misleading.

Send this page to someone via emailOTTAWA — Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Pierre Poilievre’s criticisms of the CBC amount to an attack on Canadian culture by the Conservative leader — and Quebec and francophone culture, in particular. The Conservative leader has suggested in media interviews that while he believes in defunding the CBC, he sees the value in its French-language programming — but along with the NDP, the Bloc Québécois is raising concerns about that approach. Earlier in the day, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said on Twitter that Poilievre is playing a risky ideological game, and that he’s openly threatening French and access to information and the arts. The federal Conservatives currently hold nine out of 78 federal seats in Quebec, while the governing Liberals boast 34 and another 32 belong to the Bloc. Poilievre, a fluent French speaker, has visited Quebec several times since becoming Conservative leader.