Drake, born Aubrey Graham in a city where almost one in ten people are black, is black. Toronto’s greatest civic triumphalist since Jane Jacobs is black. And yet Drake’s own identity – his nationality, his mixed race background that includes Jewish heritage and upbringing, the neighbourhood he once lived in, the schools he went to – is often taken to mean that his black experience is somehow inauthentic.
Rogers publication Medical Journal recently recognized four medical doctors for their religious faith. Three of them were Christians with sterling accomplishments. One was a Muslim… and is the leader of Al Qaeda.
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
Or, in CBC News-speak, it’s the 100th anniversary of “what is widely referred to as the Armenian genocide except by the Republic of Turkey, which rejects the term.”
Here’s a memo that went out to CBC newsrooms this morning from the CBC Alert Desk:
Media reports estimate that 4,000 migrant workers in Qatar will die in the lead-up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup because of the substandard working and living conditions imposed by Qatar’s migrant worker program, otherwise known as the kafala system. In Canada, the rights to broadcast that event belong to Bell Media.
When police reporter John McFadden showed up to an RCMP press conference, he was told he was barred from the event because of unspecified “unprofessional and disrespectful conduct.” That conduct? Reporting on the RCMP.
Today at 12:30, CBC English boss Heather Conway will hold a conference call with reporters to present findings from the independent investigation of the CBC workplace, conducted by lawyer Janice Rubin. Here are some details you may not know, but should:
“I was given the choice to walk away quietly and to publicly suggest that this was my decision.”
That’s what Jian Ghomehsi said in his infamous Facebook post. CBC management offered to stand silently by while he hushed it all up- or so he claimed.
Today, CANADALAND finally had an opportunity to ask the two top executives at the CBC if this was true. Here’s how that went:
EDITOR: Journalist Mark Bourrie responds here to this CANADALAND post by David Akin. Bourrie will appear on CANADALAND on Monday, April 20 to discuss the issue.
Last Thursday, more than 2,000 and fewer than 76,000 people marched through the streets of Montreal to protest austerity—and that’s as accurate as news reports on the demonstration allow us to be.
The high-profile trial of Mike Duffy, one of the country’s best-known former journalists, has put a spotlight on two other political journalists.
Exhibits filed this week in the trial of suspended Senator Duffy – the former broadcast journalist at CTV and CBC — show that both Ezra Levant and Mark Bourrie accepted work contracts from Duffy the politician.
