CBC “pausing” Twitter use after Twitter outs them as “government-funded media”
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Show Notes
Canada’s state broadcaster, CBC, is pausing its use of Twitter just one day after Twitter slapped a “government-funded media” label on its main account. CBC has condemned the label and asserted its “independence” as a broadcaster. Justin Trudeau has accused Pierre Poilievre of cozying up with “American billionaires” and attacking the media.
Also, antisemitism was on full display at the Al-Quds Day in Toronto on the weekend. Yet none of the NDP politicians who want to ban protests at drag storytime hours have said a peep, True North’s Andrew Lawton notes.
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