Category: government narrative

CBC Should Be Mandated to Broadcast Free Government Messages During Crises, Privy Council Memo Suggests

A government memo suggested that CBC News should be forced to provide free advertising to the government during a “national crisis.” “In the past, services such as producing and broadcasting public service announcements in times of national crisis were covered under previous agreements with CBC/Radio-Canada,” said the memo, entitled “The Way Forward: Lessons Learned: Communications…


National Citizen’s Inquiry Suspended by YouTube

The National Citizen’s Inquiry (NCI), a non-government public inquiry into COVID-19 being organized by Canadians, said it had been suspended by YouTube for a two-week period. The temporary suspension, announced by NCI on April 26, means the Alberta hearings, being held in Red Deer, will not be broadcast or livestreamed on the organization’s YouTube channel….