Growing up in the US I remember the local PBS station carried TASS evening news out of the Soviet Union immediately after the network evening news (CBS/NBC/ABC) ended.
They defended their decision to air it as a requirement of civic responsibility, to hear the words and ideas of our adversaries whether we agreed with them or not. That was democracy and freedom in action.
I took that as truth. And went so far as to find Radio Moscow on my AM dial (in Miami, was broadcast from Havana). And would read Pravda in my local library's periodical section. Not because I was an aspiring Marxist or USSR lover. But because I believed the idea of civic responsibility, hearing both sides was important for civic life.
This is no longer what PBS preaches. Or anyone in major media. They now say hearing both sides is dangerous. And it is democracy and freedom in action to censor and ban any speech that goes against the official narrative.
I heard the words of my nation's adversaries, in their own words. I wasn't persuaded by them. I was informed by them to know what official state propaganda sounded like. I could hear their words and compare them to my lived experience and know they were lying. And how they lied. Not about everything. There was enough truth in them to keep it from being a comedy routine or parody. But they'd use many truths to imply credibility to the few, more important lies.
It was educational. My civic responsibility. Prepared me for a lifetime of having to evaluate the media on its own merit, not face value.
And I'm constantly reminded of what TASS, Radio Moscow and Pravda was saying fifty years ago when I watch, listen and read the words of our media in the US (and Canada) today. Because they are EXACTLY what the Soviet Union said all those years ago about the US and west. Verbatim in many instances. If I time traveled from the 1970's to the 2020's I'd think the US lost the Cold War and the USSR had won.
At least my mind is prepared for it. Thanks to the old PBS concept of civic responsibility. Hopefully kids these days are as curious as I was and are actively seeking out the words and ideas of those of us considered adversaries of official state narratives. Which they can compare to their own lived experience. I'm confident the truth of what we are saying will prevail. And so are the officials censoring and criminalizing us; it's why they censor and criminalize us.
Great article that outlines the history of the propaganda machine. I remember listening to Peter Gzoski in the mornings. He was excellent. The last time I turned on CBC in the car, the discussion was about indigenous lesbians. Fascinating stuff so I switched to Sirius Classic Vinyl. Time to shutter the CBC.
Me too- Peter Gzoski was a Canadian institution. Although a leftie at heart he did a great job in unifying Canada and always was listenable. He softened the views of Conservatives like me. Also there was great entertainment- Allan McFee late at night, Gilmore's albums on Sunday mornings, J.B. Shayne's wild Saturday night rock shows. Classical music in the evenings after that awful Vikki Gabboro .But it began to erode- slowly at first, then rapidly. Now, I'm mad that it even exists.
And Rex Murphy’s Cross Country Checkup. My son, a military veteran who got out of CSOR when Trudeau was elected, scolded me for having cbc on in my car; said I was being brainwashed. This was in 2016.
It never ceases to amaze me just how many people out there who have no soul willing to sell out their fellow countrymen . The presstitutes are just one group among a long list doing the bosses dirty work.Their ickiness is off the charts.
Spectacular… absolute must-read. A perfectly-researched, beautifully written and oh so accurate shellacking of this utterly fraudulent enterprise.
I have worked contracts in that postmodern abortion of a building in downtown Toronto and can 100-percent attest to its totally inhuman atmosphere. The very air is toxic with fear. You can’t even hide your conservative leanings. They sniff you out like airport dogs sniff out cocaine. And they’ll do anything to see you gone.
The whole place operates like a Rube Goldberg contraption… whizzzz… ping… bop… whirrr… signifying nothing. That or an Escher drawing… all manner of staircases to nowhere but with constant reminders from top brass how proud they are of it all.
You are a Jewel, Liz. JFK fired Allen Dulles after the CIA failure in the Bay of Pigs; he was suicided. Nixon didn't hire Mark Felt to replace Hoover so they kicked him out. Ronaldus simply wanted to grow energy and kill Moscow by overspending rather than continue the Cold war and was shot and then lawfared. Trump actually succeeded in making us energy independent and using that as economic leverage against our enemies(rather than war) and was kicked out and shot. He fired prominent government officials(Comey, McCabe)... Patterns.
Government is deadly, However, they now fear us. Keep up the pressure.
I can't remember enjoying anything the CBC has produced since the Kids in the Hall in the early 90s. Look up their "art school sketch", it's prophetic. Now it's nonstop agitprop for every conceivable permutation of weaponized intersectional victimhood.
If Poliviere doesn't follow through on defunding it if he becomes PM then he is truly controlled opposition.
Don't count on it. Remember when big chin brought us the GST. Chretien campaigned on removing it. He was elected and about a year later said (in my best French accent) "Ah mais no, I looked at it and it's too intertwined with government. The best I can do it take off 2 percent. Good night and enjoy your cake."
Polly-want-a-cracker is saying he will remove the carbon tax... Wanna bet? If he's elected it will take him about the same amount of time to say he can't remove it but he's going to freeze it or drop it a small amount. More guano for the suckers...oops, I mean citizens to swallow done.
I’m pretty sure they canceled Garrison Keillor for the sole reason that conservatives enjoyed his PHC show. That, and any harkening to the past as a pleasant means of checking for present error is now considered a pathology, to be eradicated under the new social order.
"American Republicans who wanted to take over Canada"
ROFL 🤣
How bizarre a claim against us cousins to the south!!
Best gaslighting comment I've seen this year.
I think it expresses, perhaps most succinctly, this Mind of Evil operating in your beautiful nation.
Another hard read because I can see the time parallels in my own nation. Yet it is strangely comforting knowing that the peoples of each nation are facing the same issues and both peoples will overcome this problem, with God's help (IMO.)
Yeah, I live here and I want to move so bad. I can't see any sane American wanting to take over this socialist slag heap. If anything, sane Kanadians would want to join the US. Our taxes would drop like a rock and the cost of everything would probably drop as well. I love when Americans complain about gas at $3/gallon. Haha, try up here where it comes out of the ground in copious quantities and still costs $5/gallon and higher.
I left Canada for seven years in 1991. I had grown up on the CBC, Barbara Frum, Peter Gzowski and the rest. By the time I came back, the CBC was no longer accurate about anything going on in the world, which I had new eyes on. It was just ideological; that stupid, lefty sort of ideological that we can get from CNN with much sexier liars .
A few months ago, I wrote elsewhere the following highly pertinent bit: “As far as the ABC, the BBC and the CBC go, clearly, the middle letter “B” should be changed to stand for “Bullshitting” in lieu of “Broadcasting”; or, for those who find such a word offensive, perhaps “Brainwashing”. It's really quite simple.”
“...the money returned to the donors, on the order of Trudeau’s deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland.” — Factually correct of course, but as we all know, Chrystia is in fact the “duplicitous Ken doll” PM's handler. As a WEF Board of Trustees member, she could be no less.
This story could be used to describe the press worldwide. The communists emanating out of Europe through the WEF, WHO, and the Marxist NWO, have infiltrated every major news organization in the world. I lived in Panama for two years and was shocked at how propagandized the folks were there. CNN Central America was the major world news source and their programming was so leftist that the people had no idea what was really happening. During covid they blindly obeyed the government rules foisted on them, the country was paralyzed by fear.
I don't know how all this will play out in the coming year but we better be ready for the worst, these Commies are not going to give up easily.
Brilliant. I was never a CBC devotee (and looked down on because I didn’t listen to what ever radio show was popular in Toronto). I wasn’t politically minded during Mulroney’s era, and never have much thought to politics at all until Chrétien’s Ad Scam so I was unaware of the takedown by CBC. What I was very much affected by was their shameful coverage of Covid, the truckers and their nauseating fawning over #TrudeauTheTyrant. You spelled it out perfectly and the only thing I would add is the disgusting performance of Catherine Tait and the money grab of bonuses for CBC execs.
I looked up info for Phillip Johnson. Although he recanted his actions later in life, he was a socialist whose family had a summer home in Germany and during his early life he was friends with all the right people - introducing them to New York. This American also tried to create a brown shirt organization.
Looked for images of this CBC building in Toronto.
I think one purpose for the design was to make humans feel uncomfortable both looking at it and when inside it. It is intentionally negative.
This is not dissimilar to the City Hall building in Boston - the proportions of the building are upside down: very heavy concrete on top of a smaller section made with bricks. A common interpretation of the design: it represents the relationship of government to the people. Seeing it in person, you do really feel the weight of the "government" section over the individuals and you wonder how that section can uphold the "behemoth."
Thank you Ms Nickson. This should be required reading for EVERY American as a primer for what is happening in the US as well. It is a virtual roadmap for the communists in our (US) government.
I don’t think Pierre Polievre should talk about CBC from here on. He should get elected then commission a forensic accounting of it. Fill 100 pages of a report with line after line instances of massive waste. Which will be easy to do. Read it in the HOC. Then, shut it down.
Seems to me that the media thrives on eyeballs and earlobes. Take those away and it crumbles. Ignore the media and the thugs running it and all the ads supporting it. Without attention, it just might become irrelevant or go completely away.
Are you any better off giving your attention to these idiots? You mistakenly are not more in the know or up on current events because 95% of the MSM is made up of indoctrination, propaganda and lies. Give it up entirely. You do not need to placate this crappola.
Growing up in the US I remember the local PBS station carried TASS evening news out of the Soviet Union immediately after the network evening news (CBS/NBC/ABC) ended.
They defended their decision to air it as a requirement of civic responsibility, to hear the words and ideas of our adversaries whether we agreed with them or not. That was democracy and freedom in action.
I took that as truth. And went so far as to find Radio Moscow on my AM dial (in Miami, was broadcast from Havana). And would read Pravda in my local library's periodical section. Not because I was an aspiring Marxist or USSR lover. But because I believed the idea of civic responsibility, hearing both sides was important for civic life.
This is no longer what PBS preaches. Or anyone in major media. They now say hearing both sides is dangerous. And it is democracy and freedom in action to censor and ban any speech that goes against the official narrative.
I heard the words of my nation's adversaries, in their own words. I wasn't persuaded by them. I was informed by them to know what official state propaganda sounded like. I could hear their words and compare them to my lived experience and know they were lying. And how they lied. Not about everything. There was enough truth in them to keep it from being a comedy routine or parody. But they'd use many truths to imply credibility to the few, more important lies.
It was educational. My civic responsibility. Prepared me for a lifetime of having to evaluate the media on its own merit, not face value.
And I'm constantly reminded of what TASS, Radio Moscow and Pravda was saying fifty years ago when I watch, listen and read the words of our media in the US (and Canada) today. Because they are EXACTLY what the Soviet Union said all those years ago about the US and west. Verbatim in many instances. If I time traveled from the 1970's to the 2020's I'd think the US lost the Cold War and the USSR had won.
At least my mind is prepared for it. Thanks to the old PBS concept of civic responsibility. Hopefully kids these days are as curious as I was and are actively seeking out the words and ideas of those of us considered adversaries of official state narratives. Which they can compare to their own lived experience. I'm confident the truth of what we are saying will prevail. And so are the officials censoring and criminalizing us; it's why they censor and criminalize us.
Great article that outlines the history of the propaganda machine. I remember listening to Peter Gzoski in the mornings. He was excellent. The last time I turned on CBC in the car, the discussion was about indigenous lesbians. Fascinating stuff so I switched to Sirius Classic Vinyl. Time to shutter the CBC.
Me too- Peter Gzoski was a Canadian institution. Although a leftie at heart he did a great job in unifying Canada and always was listenable. He softened the views of Conservatives like me. Also there was great entertainment- Allan McFee late at night, Gilmore's albums on Sunday mornings, J.B. Shayne's wild Saturday night rock shows. Classical music in the evenings after that awful Vikki Gabboro .But it began to erode- slowly at first, then rapidly. Now, I'm mad that it even exists.
And Rex Murphy’s Cross Country Checkup. My son, a military veteran who got out of CSOR when Trudeau was elected, scolded me for having cbc on in my car; said I was being brainwashed. This was in 2016.
Oh yes- and Jack Farr on Saturday afternoons.
It never ceases to amaze me just how many people out there who have no soul willing to sell out their fellow countrymen . The presstitutes are just one group among a long list doing the bosses dirty work.Their ickiness is off the charts.
Spectacular… absolute must-read. A perfectly-researched, beautifully written and oh so accurate shellacking of this utterly fraudulent enterprise.
I have worked contracts in that postmodern abortion of a building in downtown Toronto and can 100-percent attest to its totally inhuman atmosphere. The very air is toxic with fear. You can’t even hide your conservative leanings. They sniff you out like airport dogs sniff out cocaine. And they’ll do anything to see you gone.
The whole place operates like a Rube Goldberg contraption… whizzzz… ping… bop… whirrr… signifying nothing. That or an Escher drawing… all manner of staircases to nowhere but with constant reminders from top brass how proud they are of it all.
Shut it down!
Liz- that is an excellent comment; and Elizabeth this is another of your excellent articles.
You are a Jewel, Liz. JFK fired Allen Dulles after the CIA failure in the Bay of Pigs; he was suicided. Nixon didn't hire Mark Felt to replace Hoover so they kicked him out. Ronaldus simply wanted to grow energy and kill Moscow by overspending rather than continue the Cold war and was shot and then lawfared. Trump actually succeeded in making us energy independent and using that as economic leverage against our enemies(rather than war) and was kicked out and shot. He fired prominent government officials(Comey, McCabe)... Patterns.
Government is deadly, However, they now fear us. Keep up the pressure.
I can't remember enjoying anything the CBC has produced since the Kids in the Hall in the early 90s. Look up their "art school sketch", it's prophetic. Now it's nonstop agitprop for every conceivable permutation of weaponized intersectional victimhood.
If Poliviere doesn't follow through on defunding it if he becomes PM then he is truly controlled opposition.
Don't count on it. Remember when big chin brought us the GST. Chretien campaigned on removing it. He was elected and about a year later said (in my best French accent) "Ah mais no, I looked at it and it's too intertwined with government. The best I can do it take off 2 percent. Good night and enjoy your cake."
Polly-want-a-cracker is saying he will remove the carbon tax... Wanna bet? If he's elected it will take him about the same amount of time to say he can't remove it but he's going to freeze it or drop it a small amount. More guano for the suckers...oops, I mean citizens to swallow done.
I’m pretty sure they canceled Garrison Keillor for the sole reason that conservatives enjoyed his PHC show. That, and any harkening to the past as a pleasant means of checking for present error is now considered a pathology, to be eradicated under the new social order.
"American Republicans who wanted to take over Canada"
ROFL 🤣
How bizarre a claim against us cousins to the south!!
Best gaslighting comment I've seen this year.
I think it expresses, perhaps most succinctly, this Mind of Evil operating in your beautiful nation.
Another hard read because I can see the time parallels in my own nation. Yet it is strangely comforting knowing that the peoples of each nation are facing the same issues and both peoples will overcome this problem, with God's help (IMO.)
Yeah, I live here and I want to move so bad. I can't see any sane American wanting to take over this socialist slag heap. If anything, sane Kanadians would want to join the US. Our taxes would drop like a rock and the cost of everything would probably drop as well. I love when Americans complain about gas at $3/gallon. Haha, try up here where it comes out of the ground in copious quantities and still costs $5/gallon and higher.
I left Canada for seven years in 1991. I had grown up on the CBC, Barbara Frum, Peter Gzowski and the rest. By the time I came back, the CBC was no longer accurate about anything going on in the world, which I had new eyes on. It was just ideological; that stupid, lefty sort of ideological that we can get from CNN with much sexier liars .
Excellent piece … spot-on from start to finish!
A few months ago, I wrote elsewhere the following highly pertinent bit: “As far as the ABC, the BBC and the CBC go, clearly, the middle letter “B” should be changed to stand for “Bullshitting” in lieu of “Broadcasting”; or, for those who find such a word offensive, perhaps “Brainwashing”. It's really quite simple.”
“...the money returned to the donors, on the order of Trudeau’s deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland.” — Factually correct of course, but as we all know, Chrystia is in fact the “duplicitous Ken doll” PM's handler. As a WEF Board of Trustees member, she could be no less.
Christina Alexandra Freeland the 'dead sixer infernal charlatan', an anagram.
Like 'broadcasting' her name contains the word 'Satan'.
This story could be used to describe the press worldwide. The communists emanating out of Europe through the WEF, WHO, and the Marxist NWO, have infiltrated every major news organization in the world. I lived in Panama for two years and was shocked at how propagandized the folks were there. CNN Central America was the major world news source and their programming was so leftist that the people had no idea what was really happening. During covid they blindly obeyed the government rules foisted on them, the country was paralyzed by fear.
I don't know how all this will play out in the coming year but we better be ready for the worst, these Commies are not going to give up easily.
Brilliant. I was never a CBC devotee (and looked down on because I didn’t listen to what ever radio show was popular in Toronto). I wasn’t politically minded during Mulroney’s era, and never have much thought to politics at all until Chrétien’s Ad Scam so I was unaware of the takedown by CBC. What I was very much affected by was their shameful coverage of Covid, the truckers and their nauseating fawning over #TrudeauTheTyrant. You spelled it out perfectly and the only thing I would add is the disgusting performance of Catherine Tait and the money grab of bonuses for CBC execs.
Brava and thank you!
I looked up info for Phillip Johnson. Although he recanted his actions later in life, he was a socialist whose family had a summer home in Germany and during his early life he was friends with all the right people - introducing them to New York. This American also tried to create a brown shirt organization.
Looked for images of this CBC building in Toronto.
I think one purpose for the design was to make humans feel uncomfortable both looking at it and when inside it. It is intentionally negative.
This is not dissimilar to the City Hall building in Boston - the proportions of the building are upside down: very heavy concrete on top of a smaller section made with bricks. A common interpretation of the design: it represents the relationship of government to the people. Seeing it in person, you do really feel the weight of the "government" section over the individuals and you wonder how that section can uphold the "behemoth."
https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-GC16
For Americans: look at the Boston building and then compare it to the DOJ/FBI building in DC.
These architects are telling us something.
Thank you Elizabeth! Quite insightful!
Thank you Ms Nickson. This should be required reading for EVERY American as a primer for what is happening in the US as well. It is a virtual roadmap for the communists in our (US) government.
I don’t think Pierre Polievre should talk about CBC from here on. He should get elected then commission a forensic accounting of it. Fill 100 pages of a report with line after line instances of massive waste. Which will be easy to do. Read it in the HOC. Then, shut it down.
Seems to me that the media thrives on eyeballs and earlobes. Take those away and it crumbles. Ignore the media and the thugs running it and all the ads supporting it. Without attention, it just might become irrelevant or go completely away.
Are you any better off giving your attention to these idiots? You mistakenly are not more in the know or up on current events because 95% of the MSM is made up of indoctrination, propaganda and lies. Give it up entirely. You do not need to placate this crappola.