George Santos Shunned by McCarthy’s Fundraising CommitteeYOU CAN’T SIT WITH USThe fundraising group, Protect the House New York 2024, was set up to deliver contributions to Republicans at risk of losing re-election.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has been blasting CBC News as a “biased propaganda arm of the Liberal Party” as he campaigns to defund the public broadcaster. If anything, CBC is biased toward Canada’s establishment, which includes both the Liberals and Conservatives. While Poilievre has never cited any actual facts to back up his assertion that CBC is out to get Conservatives, there is hard evidence to show it’s not the case. The study found that the broadcaster covered the Conservatives more positively than Global News and CTV News. CBC’s role as a potential counterweight to corporate media is why it has always been so loathed by the right-wing.

Trudeau's Jamaica family trip is facing new scrutiny. 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. 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. The prime minister was in Jamaica with his family from Dec. 26 to Jan. 4, his itinerary from the time shows.

Send this page to someone via emailThe CBC’s fight to see mandate letters for Ontario cabinet ministers goes to “the very core” of what freedom-of-information regimes are designed to foster, a lawyer for the public broadcaster told the country’s top court Tuesday. These elements are an informed public, accountable government and, ultimately, the democratic process, Justin Safayeni argued in the Supreme Court of Canada. Story continues below advertisementA seven-member panel of the Supreme Court reserved judgment in the case until a later date after hearing from the parties and several interveners. A divisional court dismissed the attorney general’s application for judicial review, and the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the decision. That prompted Ontario to take its case to the Supreme Court.

Popular Vancouver farm-to-table eatery closes its doors after only four yearsDuration: 01:48The Lower Mainland is losing another unique restaurant. When it opened in 2018, Ubuntu Canteen's aim was to offer organic, farm-to-table food to the local community, with a focus on land, food and food security. But just over four years later, the restaurant on Fraser Street near King Edward in Vancouver has served its last meal. We spoke with staff members as they prepared for the end.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Twitter profile has a new label that Elon Musk wrote specifically for Canada's public broadcaster: "69% Government-funded Media." "Canadian Broadcasting Corp said they're 'less than 70% government-funded,' so we corrected the label," Musk wrote in a tweet last night. The tweet included a screenshot of CBC's Twitter profile with the new "69% Government-funded Media" label. The "69% Government-funded" label, while obviously a joke, appears to be inaccurate. Another screenshot posted by Musk suggests that he briefly labeled the CBC as "70% Government-funded Media" before changing it to 69 percent.

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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.