"To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity."
Good luck to Tara finding work in Canada! Vainglorious, 32% Trudeau can not handle any criticism, witness his 'elite level courtesy' to Rebel News, one of the few remaining honest Canadian reporting outlets. Unfortunately, career options are better stateside, though this honest approach - "write/call it as you see it" - is desperately needed, where for now, everyone is on the stay employed, George Soros communist dogma team.

I applaud your strength, honour and integrity, hallmarks of journalism that long ago ceased to exist at the Liberal party's mouthpiece. Keep writing, independent voices need to be heard.

I am pleasantly surprised to see this article here.
I read it elsewhere this morning.
Once a fan of CBC,but no more.
Peter Gzowski, Rex Murphy, and the late Stuart McLean.
Now a husk of its former self.
Sad days indeed...

I share the sentiments in this article. But I'm left wondering about a few things.
The writer says she joined the CBC in 2013 and then it changed, much to her disliking. I recall that in 2013 the CBC was already infested with a post-modernistic worldview (the condition which the author describes here). It makes one wonder why she joined the CBC in the first place.
Further, some documentation from 2013 and 2021 (emails, policy memoranda, etc.) should accompany this article.
Unfortunately, she uses identity politics which puts her in the same school that she criticizes. For example, she says she is "left" as demonstrated by her concern for the housing crisis. Just what, exactly, makes one "left" thanks to having concern for the housing crisis? Conservative Leslyn Lewis, for example, is concerned about the housing crisis, but she is far from being "left", as in "Red Tory".
In summary, I'm happy to see this blog post and hope the author follows through with more writing with some more meat on the bone -- perhaps co-write something with Lindsay Shepherd.

Alcohol can cause cancer, so why don’t most Canadians know that? I like yesterday’s story* as an example of what might not get covered otherwise [like tobacco and asbestos].** Agreed, one of the mandates of the CBC as a public institution is to unify Canada, so it has to be careful about how it raises and addresses issues (possible parallel for this community’s partially publicly funded media, which this is not).

*https://www.cbc.ca/player/news/tv%20shows/the%20national


**“If newspapers are dying, it’s a decline in advertising revenue, perhaps helped along by a debt-fuelled quest for consolidation, that’s killing them”:

https://policyoptions.irpp.org...

“How could Canada let one media organization buy up virtually all of its newsrooms? … What the newspapers lost in independence ….

Launched in 1998, the [National] Post cost millions to start up, and continued to bleed red ink for a full thirteen years before posting its first (and short lived) profit in 2011. Despite a few high-level pushes to close it down and stop the bleeding, fierce political interests kept the Post going. Even during the Canwest years, the paper’s circulation and distribution declined to the point that the claim it is a national paper is no longer, strictly speaking, accurate.

To the rest of the chain that supported it, the National Post was and still is an unfathomable and unsustainable albatross. And yet, it lives on.”

The former editor of the Edmonton Journal's inside look at the damage being done to Canada's newspapers. Another takeover by Conrad Black, founder of the National Post, who’ve published Tara Henley’s exercise in self-branding as an “independent”:

https://thewalrus.ca/above-the...

It's possible that in the Canadian Estonian community there are those who know little about Canada.

Researcher Michael Adams has been observing the differences between Canadian and American values for some time. Here is his recent Op Ed on the subject:

https://www.theglobeandmail.co...

The following was penned by an ex-CBC employee, in full agreement with Tara Henley. How the times have changed.
In today's (Saturday) Toronto Star there is an "opinion" piece by Shree Paradkar. Known in our household as "pardikaka" for she is so "woke", so far left that she espouses what can only be described as reverse racist views. Anything involving white male European deeds from the past as well as from today are attacked, stridently so. Paradkar is perhaps the most leftist staff writer for the star. And that is saying something. And she writes nothing about systemic racism elsewhere - the caste system in India, for example. Tribal enmity and genocide historically and even today in Africa. Our First Nations slaughtering other tribes merely because they spoke a different dialect or even language. Just a few historical - and present day examples.
No journalistic integrity whatsoever. The title of the piece is "If only CBC were as woke as accused". It attacks Tara Henley's article, saying that it is baseless, not supported by facts. She does not identify Henley by name. Her proof is that it was published in The National Post (right-wing) and picked up and commented on by a number of blogs, newspapers and websites, most notably Fox. The last merits reading, it is, compared to Paradkar balanced and fairly nuanced. Even right-wingers can do that. The woke and far-left evidently cannot, as Henley wrote, Paradkar proves.
Our household never watches CBC, only listens to their radio programming, which is excellent. Maybe it is time to finally cancel the Star subscription. The better half agrees, but inertia gets in the way, and the weekend issues do have some interesting and balanced articles. PC is getting out of hand when it is slanted only one way.

At least you had a job.

Doug Ford's ON PCs have been getting complaints for months on their performance in polls they themselves commissioned for 35 weeks and paid for with the public purse. The results are interesting.

The CBC is doing its job in reporting on this, although the PC's refused a request under Ontario's freedom of information laws to make these publicly financed results public, delaying their release by 90 days until the winter break.

That doesn't shield them from widespread dissatisfaction and non- confidence in their handling of COVID 19 and areas such as education, the environment, and yes, the economy.

The Ford PC government's own polls are saying they're not thought to be doing their job. Don't shoot the messenger!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...