So he is on leave so he can't quit? He has to return to work to quit? Knowing the CBC it is paid leave. All the power to him to rack up the $ while having quit.
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What Travis showcased that evening was unsparingly rare on CBC: a candid, unscripted conversation about identity politics that dared to challenge progressive orthodoxy. His questions were sharp, off-the-cuff, and unflinching and I responded in-kind, defending a position held by nearly 78 per cent of Canadians — that when a young person socially transitions, involving parents isn’t just reasonable, it’s responsible and reassuring. To my knowledge, this remains a rare instance in which a dissenting view on transgender issues has been aired — let alone explored — on CBC primetime. Fittingly, it came from a transgender voice.
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The dialogue struck a chord with the audience. By the next day, CBC had clipped and promoted the debate as a featured article across its digital platform. The reach was substantial. For weeks afterward, I was identified by strangers at shopping centres and gas stations (One perk of being transgender in media: memorable notoriety).
I was invited to join the roster as a recurring panelist on Canada Tonight.
But inside the show’s production, the cracks were already forming. Travis’ willingness to engage a broader spectrum of viewpoints had not gone unnoticed by his superiors — and not in a good way. Comments in passing from Travis and his team revealed a not-yet public tension brewing between Travis and CBC leadership. The question wasn’t whether Canada Tonight could reflect a divided county — it was whether the CBC was willing to let it. Oh well.
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In an age where media increasingly cedes ground to unfiltered, uncredentialed influencers, our public broadcaster should be leaning into rigorous, inclusive debate, not retreating from it. Travis Dhanraj tried to bring CBC a little closer to that ideal. And for a brief, hopeful moment, it worked.
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Terry Newman: Travis Dharanj is a journalist. He doesn't belong at CBC — National Post
Public broadcaster only interested in token diversity
I was invited to join the roster as a recurring panelist on Canada Tonight.
But inside the show’s production, the cracks were already forming. Travis’ willingness to engage a broader spectrum of viewpoints had not gone unnoticed by his superiors — and not in a good way. Comments in passing from Travis and his team revealed a not-yet public tension brewing between Travis and CBC leadership. The question wasn’t whether Canada Tonight could reflect a divided county — it was whether the CBC was willing to let it. Oh well.
Julia Malott: I am the wrong kind of transwoman for CBC. Travis Dhanraj made me a regular — National Post
Public broadcaster wanted the visual representation I offered but not the messy perspectives I might actually bring
Chris Selley: We'll thank Travis Dhanraj for 'pulling back the curtain' on CBC News — National Post
'I'll share everything. I'll tell you what is really happening inside the walls of your CBC', Travis Dhanraj wrote
CBC is extremely gay.... employee and mgt wise not content.What Travis showcased that evening was unsparingly rare on CBC: a candid, unscripted conversation about identity politics that dared to challenge progressive orthodoxy. His questions were sharp, off-the-cuff, and unflinching and I responded in-kind, defending a position held by nearly 78 per cent of Canadians — that when a young person socially transitions, involving parents isn’t just reasonable, it’s responsible and reassuring. To my knowledge, this remains a rare instance in which a dissenting view on transgender issues has been aired — let alone explored — on CBC primetime. Fittingly, it came from a transgender voice.
The dialogue struck a chord with the audience. By the next day, CBC had clipped and promoted the debate as a featured article across its digital platform. The reach was substantial. For weeks afterward, I was identified by strangers at shopping centres and gas stations (One perk of being transgender in media: memorable notoriety).Terry Newman: Travis Dharanj is a journalist. He doesn't belong at CBC — National Post
Public broadcaster only interested in token diversity
I was invited to join the roster as a recurring panelist on Canada Tonight.
But inside the show’s production, the cracks were already forming. Travis’ willingness to engage a broader spectrum of viewpoints had not gone unnoticed by his superiors — and not in a good way. Comments in passing from Travis and his team revealed a not-yet public tension brewing between Travis and CBC leadership. The question wasn’t whether Canada Tonight could reflect a divided county — it was whether the CBC was willing to let it. Oh well.
In an age where media increasingly cedes ground to unfiltered, uncredentialed influencers, our public broadcaster should be leaning into rigorous, inclusive debate, not retreating from it. Travis Dhanraj tried to bring CBC a little closer to that ideal. And for a brief, hopeful moment, it worked.Julia Malott: I am the wrong kind of transwoman for CBC. Travis Dhanraj made me a regular — National Post
Public broadcaster wanted the visual representation I offered but not the messy perspectives I might actually bring
Chris Selley: We'll thank Travis Dhanraj for 'pulling back the curtain' on CBC News — National Post
'I'll share everything. I'll tell you what is really happening inside the walls of your CBC', Travis Dhanraj wrote
Radical left as well. Which isn't necessarily because of the high number of gays collecting paycheques there.
Well, considering the radical right wants gays imprisoned or shot, it seems reasonable that gays would feel more comfortable on the other side.
No you are just making broad unfounded statements , kind of like throwing shit at the wall and seeing if it will stick
Again who is this radical right ? Maybe one in a million , they are crawling out of the woodwork .
The CBC sucks, knows it sucks but is doubling down anyway. We already know that they're biased & that Dhanraj is telling the truth!!Former CBC host blasts state broadcaster on way out the door
Travis Dhanraj accuses CBC of bias, lack of diversity of opinion, in scathing resignation letter.
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Jul 07, 2025 • Last updated 6 hours ago • 4 minute read
Travis Dhanraj is pictured in a handout photo.
Travis Dhanraj is pictured in a handout photo.
CBC loves diversity, just not diversity of opinion. That mistake has now cost them a former top host and perhaps created an enemy.
In a scathing letter announcing his resignation, now former CBC journalist and television host Travis Dhanraj is taking aim at Canada’s state broadcaster. You can read the full resignation letter here.
“This is an involuntary resignation,” Dhanraj said.
“I am stepping down not by choice, but because the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has made it impossible for me to continue my work with integrity.”
The 20-year broadcast veteran had worked for Bell Media, Global and was recruited to CBC to report on Parliament Hill, Marketplace and then eventually was chosen as host of Canada Tonight with Travis Dhanraj. His show was announced with great fanfare in November 2023, hit the airwaves in January 2024 and was done within the year.
“Travis’s engaging curiosity and incredible range of experience allows him to translate complex stories into personal terms and help audiences make sense of the news, which will be key as Canada Tonight sharpens its focus on stories that matter at home and make a difference in this country,” said CBC executive Andree Lau in a statement at the time.
Quickly though, CBC realized that Dhanraj wasn’t the kind of host CBC wanted; he actually welcomed a diversity of opinion. And while other shows like Power & Politics faced a boycott at the time by MPs from the federal Conservatives over their blatant pro-Trudeau, Liberal bias, those same Conservative MPs would speak to and appear on TV with Dhanraj, something CBC’s “top talent” wouldn’t allow and blocked from happening.
Appearances by people like me, not normally welcome at CBC HQ, didn’t go over well either.
“When I joined CBC, I did so with a clear understanding of its mandate and a belief in its importance to Canadian democracy. I was told I would be ‘a bold voice in journalism.’ I took that role seriously. I worked to elevate underrepresented stories, expand political balance, and uphold the journalistic values Canadians expect from their public broadcaster,” Dhanraj said in his resignation letter.
“But what happens behind the scenes at CBC too often contradicts what’s shown to the public. Performative diversity, tokenism, a system designed to elevate certain voices and diminish others.”
Dhanraj says he was denied access to key newsmakers and says “a small circle of senior Ottawa-based journalists” — read that as David Cochrane and Rosemary Barton – used internal booking and editorial processes to block him from booking key guests.
“I was fighting for balance and accused of being on a ‘crusade,’” Dhanraj says.
Those who know Dhanraj know that he is far from someone pushing a conservative agenda. During his time covering Queen’s Park, he was a constant thorn in the side of Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
As a show host though, Dhanraj wanted to reflect the viewpoints of the whole country. Liberals, New Democrats, Conservatives and people who didn’t fit into neat, tidy boxes.
That made CBC executives uncomfortable.
They obviously thought when they hired a self-described brown dude from Calgary whose parents had immigrated to Canada from Trinidad that they were getting someone with a certain point of view. That’s the kind of diversity CBC wants, the diversity that rests on the surface, with skin colour, not the diversity that allows other views to be aired to CBC’s audience.
CBC executives, fully immersed in the DEI culture, didn’t know how to handle the man they had actually hired and so they fought him the entire time he hosted the show. Shortly after the show launched, certain segments were cut – especially those showcasing diverse opinion – the interference from Ottawa only intensified.
His decision to criticize CBC President Catherine Tait for defending executive bonuses while cutting front line jobs brought about retribution, including a demand that he sign a non-disclosure agreement. By November, Dhanraj was off the air, but his name was still on the show.
CBC initially refused to comment, then in early 2025 they said they were going in a new direction with a new host, Ian Hanomansing. After trying to demote Dhanraj, the journalist and state broadcaster were at a standstill.
CBC in a statement to the Toronto Star said it “categorically rejects the accusations made about CBC News, our staff and management” and that it is limited in what it can say due to privacy and confidentiality concerns.
Now, Dhanraj has made it clear that his relationship with CBC is over.
“My departure is not the end of this story. There is more to come — and it will be shared when the time is right. You have taken away my job, but you cannot and will not silence my voice,” he wrote in his letter.
That sounds like there will be more stories, interesting stories, about CBC in the future.
LILLEY: Former CBC host blasts state broadcaster on way out the door
Former TV host says he was yanked off the air for believing in the wrong kind of diversity. Diversity of opinion.torontosun.com
It's the journalists. The network can stay put but the attitude needs defunding.
Of course they are. Survey after survey proves it.
And whenever you see some asshole hauled up for vandalizing a synogogue or a Jewish school, it's ALWAYS a dedicated, lifelong Candian Liberal or American Democrat.
CTF says CBC staff with 6-figure salaries has more than doubled in last decade
Author of the article:Jane Stevenson
Published Jul 11, 2025 • Last updated 18 hours ago • 2 minute read
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the number of CBC staff collecting six-figure salaries has more than doubled since 2015 according to access-to-information records.
“Taxpayers don’t need all these extra CBC employees taking six-figure salaries,” said Franco Terrazzano, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s federal director, in a statement.
“The government should save money by taking air out of its highly paid bureaucracy and that includes Crown corporations like the CBC.”
The CTF says in the fiscal year, 2024-25, 1,831 CBC employees took a six-figure salary, according to the records obtained by access to information with those salaries costing taxpayers about $240 million in 2024 for an average salary of $131,060 for those employees.
The federation says a decade ago in the 2015-16 fiscal year, 438 CBC employees took home six-figure salaries, for a total cost to taxpayers of about $59.6 million.
The CTF says the number of CBC staffers with a six-figure salary increased 17% over the last year and since 2015, that number has increased 318%.
The federation says the CBC will cost taxpayers more than $1.4 billion this year, according to the main estimates.
“Canadians should be able to pick the content they want to pay for instead of the government forcing them to pay for the CBC with their taxes,” Terrazzano said the CBC in a statement.
“And other media organizations shouldn’t be forced to compete with the taxpayer-funded CBC. It’s time to defund the CBC.”
The CTF says while most provincial governments proactively publish annual sunshine lists to provide transparency on employee compensation, Ottawa does not.
The federation has repeatedly called on the federal government to proactively publish a sunshine list to disclose the salaries of the government’s highest paid employees.
More than 110,000 federal bureaucrats took home a six-figure base salary in 2023, according to separate access-to-information records obtained by the CTF.
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Here’s CBC sunshine list and cost, per access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation with the fiscal year, number of staff earning $100,000, and total paid to staff earning $100,000:
2015-16: 438, $59.6 million
2016-17: 467, $63.6 million
2017-18: 511, $68.7 million
2018-19: 599, $78.0 million
2019-20: 729, $93.4 million
2020-21: 838, $106.2 million
2021-22: 949, $119.5 million
2022-23: 1,378, $170.4 million
2023-24: 1,566, $192.7 million
2024-25: 1,831, $240.0 million
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Author of the article:Jane Stevenson
Published Jul 11, 2025 • Last updated 18 hours ago • 2 minute read
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the number of CBC staff collecting six-figure salaries has more than doubled since 2015 according to access-to-information records.
“Taxpayers don’t need all these extra CBC employees taking six-figure salaries,” said Franco Terrazzano, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s federal director, in a statement.
“The government should save money by taking air out of its highly paid bureaucracy and that includes Crown corporations like the CBC.”
The CTF says in the fiscal year, 2024-25, 1,831 CBC employees took a six-figure salary, according to the records obtained by access to information with those salaries costing taxpayers about $240 million in 2024 for an average salary of $131,060 for those employees.
The federation says a decade ago in the 2015-16 fiscal year, 438 CBC employees took home six-figure salaries, for a total cost to taxpayers of about $59.6 million.
The CTF says the number of CBC staffers with a six-figure salary increased 17% over the last year and since 2015, that number has increased 318%.
The federation says the CBC will cost taxpayers more than $1.4 billion this year, according to the main estimates.
“Canadians should be able to pick the content they want to pay for instead of the government forcing them to pay for the CBC with their taxes,” Terrazzano said the CBC in a statement.
“And other media organizations shouldn’t be forced to compete with the taxpayer-funded CBC. It’s time to defund the CBC.”
The CTF says while most provincial governments proactively publish annual sunshine lists to provide transparency on employee compensation, Ottawa does not.
The federation has repeatedly called on the federal government to proactively publish a sunshine list to disclose the salaries of the government’s highest paid employees.
More than 110,000 federal bureaucrats took home a six-figure base salary in 2023, according to separate access-to-information records obtained by the CTF.
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Here’s CBC sunshine list and cost, per access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation with the fiscal year, number of staff earning $100,000, and total paid to staff earning $100,000:
2015-16: 438, $59.6 million
2016-17: 467, $63.6 million
2017-18: 511, $68.7 million
2018-19: 599, $78.0 million
2019-20: 729, $93.4 million
2020-21: 838, $106.2 million
2021-22: 949, $119.5 million
2022-23: 1,378, $170.4 million
2023-24: 1,566, $192.7 million
2024-25: 1,831, $240.0 million
CTF says CBC staff with 6-figure salaries has more than doubled in last decade
The CTF says CBC staff collecting six figure salaries has more than doubled since 2015 according to access-to-information records