BACK-END: Three Quick Comments on Recent Canadian Media Stories
CRTC Oversight at CBC a "Charade," the Government Assault on Ottawa Citizen "Defense Watch" Journalist David Pugliese & No One Covers a Press Conference on Chinese Election Interference.
Three recent stories illustrate the sorry state of legacy media in Canada.
The October 30th, 2024 Blacklock’s Reporter post, “CBC Oversight A “Charade,” notes comments made by Liberal-appointed PEI Senator Percy Downe during Senate testimony yesterday, followed “an admission by the CRTC that it would never pull the CBC’s television license regardless of whether it follows the rules.”
The CBC gets nearly 60 per cent of its current funding from federal grants, according to the Canadian Encyclopedia, although other sources suggest that the true total is closer to 70%.
It also draws revenue from sponsorship, advertising and the sale of programs to other countries. It is responsible to Parliament for its conduct. But the government has no control in the CBC's day-to-day operations…
The CBC is also the largest employer of journalists in Canada, employing somewhere between 33% and 50% of all currently working journalists.
It’s traditionally been considered a strong advocate of the Liberal Party in general and Liberal governments in particular.
Government insiders are now going after legacy media journalists, accusing them of being agents of the Russian government intent on spreading “disinformation and misinformation” throughout the easily confused Canadian populace.
An example of this is covered in the October 29th, 2024 The Maple post, “An Outright Assault On Journalism,” which covered recent allegations from “former Conservative MP and Harper-era cabinet minister Christopher Alexander” and his “shocking allegations against a respected Canadian journalist.”
During the October 24th meeting of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, Alexander tabled documents that he claimed showed David Pugliese, a reporter with the Ottawa Citizen, was approached and recruited by the Soviet intelligence authorities, the KGB, in the 1980s - a claim that Pugliese categorically rejected as false and ridiculous.
As outlined in the October 25th, 2024 Global News post, “Reporter pushes back against ‘ridiculous’ Russian spy allegations,” Pugliese, allegedly under the direction of the Russian government had reported on themes that “aim to weaken Canadian support for Ukraine.”
No one seems to remember that one of the core concepts of traditional journalism was to report critically on government domestic and foreign policy initiatives.
Pugliese has been doing this for twenty years and should certainly continue to do so.
But the story illustrates an ongoing trend in recent Canadian politics to blame “foreign interference,” whenever a story surfaces in the media disparaging your favorite political party.
The Conservatives, under opposition leader Pierre Poilievre tend to focus on Chinese interference favoring Liberal government policies while the Justin Trudeau Liberals and their NDP allies prefer stories on Russian or Indian interference, suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin will become the real ruler of Canada if the conservatives ever gain power.
To have a former conservative party cabinet minister complaining about “Russian interference” is considered a political win in Liberal circles, no matter what the truth of the matter might be.
Over the last year, the Canadian government has been holding an ongoing public inquiry into whether China, Russia and other countries interfered in recent Canadian elections after an earlier probe initiated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was cut short amidst criticism from the Conservative Party.
Investigative journalist Sam Cooper, who currently posts to the Bureau on Substack and is the author of the 2021 book “Willful Blindness; How a Criminal network of narcos, tycoons and Chinese Communist Party agents infiltrated the West,“ is having a decent week.
On Monday, and as outlined in the October 28th, 2024 CPAC on YouTube post, “MP Kevin Vuong speaks with reporters about foreign interference – October 28, 2024,” Cooper, along with independent Federal MP Kevin Vuong, former CSIS intelligence officer Michel Juneau-Katsuya, and Charles Burton, a senior fellow at Sinopsis held a news conference on Parliament Hill to speak about foreign interference in Canada.
They named four Canadian politicians as being involved with Chinese government efforts to influence Canadian policy,
Liberal appointed Senator Yuen Pau Woo, a well known opponent of the various Canadian government efforts to create a foreign influence transparency registry.
Conservative appointed, retired Canadian Senator Victor Oh, who was expelled from the Conservative party caucus after “directly or indirectly” lobbying on behalf of a Chinese state-owned enterprise.
Ding Guo, a journalist who serves as an advisor to British Columbia Premier David Eby, and has links to the Canada Committee 100 Society—a group tied to Beijing's overseas influence network, the United Front.
Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development Mary Ng, who CSIS identified as a recipient of covert support from Chinese consulate networks during the 2019 election.
Cooper also named Liberal MP Parm Bains, saying he benefited from the PRC’s alleged foreign interference.
As outlined in the October 29th, 2024 True North post, “Kevin Vuong, journalist name five officials allegedly involved in foreign influence scheme,” most of the people named at the press conference refused to respond directly to the allegations.
That’s fair enough.
But more concerning is the absence of any legacy media stories on the press conference or any recent stories on Chinese interference in Canadian elections.
The possibility of Chinese inference in Canadian elections was one of the primary reasons for the formation of the Foreign Interference Commission in September 2023.
But while the CBC, the Globe and other legacy outlets are more than happy to publicize Russian and Indian election interference, they don’t want to talk about China.
Maybe their Canadian government financier is encouraging this approach.
NC's "Culture of Corruption" from Coast to Raleigh to D.C. Damns Asheville Flood Victims.
After decades of embezzlement, bribery, rapes, lynching's, child sexual and physical abuse in public schools. and political violence and terrorism by N.C. judicial, law enforcement & government officials, Aided by the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and other Federal Agencies and officials.
https://justice4all.substack.com/p/federal-state-officials-aiding-criminal-662
https://justice4all.substack.com/p/federal-state-officials-aiding-criminal?r=o62no&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwAR3IocGge8vnFE-QLiYE27mxzMR6NWujzMiZsZB9E8GuZYoJpmMR-5a-sZk
https://open.substack.com/pub/justice4all/p/reform-or-replace-the-us-dept-of?r=o62no&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Sexual abuse of children along with lynching and violence toward political “threats” to the corrupt policies and violent as wells as financial crimes, antidemocracy terrorism, preventable deaths, torture and absence of Rule of Law, Justice and responsible, lawful government, policing, criminal justice, education, and emergency management have suffered across N.C. as a result of years of theft, violent criminal abuses, and criminal misconduct by the “Culture of Corruption” according to the FBI.
The FBI, US Department of Justice, Dept. of Education, and NC and local officials in Eastern NC have with the Federal agencies aided and colluded these crimes, despite the undeniable actionable and likely admissible evidence possessed by local, NC and Federal government, judicial, law enforcement and other “trusted” institutions, the media, and much of the public and despite the increasing numbers of victims who have sought action, justice, criminal & corrupt priorities have been the unchallenged and unchecked priority and established policy for decades and the traumatized victims and grieving families DO NOT MATTER one bit to local officials, the State of NC, NC SBI, Attorney General or Governor, or the FBI & DOJ and other allies who have aided and colluded in these crimes and advanced this set of priorities.
Resources for education and emergency preparation and management have instead been stolen, used to bribe media, and massively, criminally misappropriated with the full knowledge and collusion of Federal and State authorities with jurisdiction and a stated mission of upholding the law, protecting civil and Constitutional rights, and ensuring that funds for education and other public purposes are not used for criminal agendas and desires of sadistic thugs - but that is exactly what any any reasonable person would conclude with even a fraction of the victims statements, hundreds of witnesses and decades of evidence possessed by local leaders in Southeast NC, Wilmington, throughout NC and in the Federal Government agencies of jurisdiction.
The tragedy in the Western Mountains from “Helene” and in NC in years past, the abusive and robbed education system in New Hanover and other Counties, and criminal government, justice and law enforcement “Culture” and practices are to a large extent to the result of exacerbated consequences from years of accepted, protected and aided theft of resources by sinister officials for sinister interests and community & regional indifference and public disdain and retaliation routinely, violently visited upon the child and adult victims of rapes, the tiny handful of officials who have opposed this corruption, and far too many innocent victims.
Instead of saving or preparing for a “rainy day” or promoting moral or public interest policies and using their governmental and judicial powers for public interests, lawful purposes, Head Start and prosecuting abusers and rapists and violent corrupt law enforcement and DAs, the US DOJ, FBI, AG Josh Stein, Roy Cooper, Pat McCrory, and their predecessors in the nation’s most pervasive, valued “Culture of Corruption,” NC has elected to spend millions for abusive, corrupt purposes and to destroy any “threat” to this cherished traditional violent corruption.
Vile, habitual, corrupt often sadistic crimes continue with DOJ & FBI aid and collusion and even years of repeated victimization and torture of a growing number of children & innocent victims has NOT spurred ANY action to reform or invoke Judeo-Christian in ANY State, Federal or local public institutions or “institutions of trust.”
Members of Congress and the N.C. General Assembly included.
https://open.substack.com/pub/justice4all/p/reform-or-replace-the-us-dept-of?r=o62no&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://theylied.ca/MainstreamMedia.shtml
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https://theylied.ca/Censorship.shtml
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