As opposed to things like "Rebel News" being a font of absolute truth, right?
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As opposed to things like "Rebel News" being a font of absolute truth, right?
Rebel news is not funded by your tax dollar . Big difference .
Ever caught Rebel news in a lie? You just have to sift the religious garbage out, and you have honest reporting. Something government paid media outlets have forgotten how to do.
Yes.
That it calls itself "News". It is not "News" and hasn't been for years.
Federal Court upholds CRA decision denying Rebel News journalism tax credits; Rebel to appeal - Law360 Canada
The Federal Court has upheld a federal government decision denying journalism tax credits to the Rebel News based on a finding that it doesn’t produce enough original news content.
www.law360.ca
"The CRA noted that the advisory board had assessed that Rebel News does not produce original news content, “on the basis that the content was found to be largely opinion-based and focused on the promotion of one particular perspective.”"
"The CRA concluded that the majority of Rebel News’s content is not based on facts and multiple perspectives that are analyzed and explained by a journalist for Rebel News in accordance with s. 2.27(c) of the Guidance and found that the original decision denying QCJO status to Rebel should stand."
"The three-week news content sample considered by the CRA included 423 news reports. Of this, the Officer on the second determination review found that 283 of the items were not based on facts, nor were multiple perspectives actively pursued, researched, analyzed, or explained by a journalist for the organization. A further 135 of the news items were identified as being curated content or material rewritten from other sources which is contrary to sections 2.34 and 2.35 of the Guidance. The Officer’s report found that 10 of the 423 items reviewed over a three-week period could be considered original news content.
Realistically, for an organization that is actively engaged in the dissemination of news, three weeks should be a sufficient time frame within which to demonstrate news generating activities. Finally, I would note that it was Rebel itself, and not the CRA, who selected the three-week period for review. [45] Rebel has not satisfied me that the CRA Decision is unreasonable on the grounds that the assessment of originality of news content was confined to a consideration of news reporting during a three-week period or that the news content for this period was not reasonably considered."
Oh and the fiasco over the debates:
"Rebel News Network Ltd. is registered as a third-party advocacy group with Elections Canada. Levant has said he set up the advocacy group to “stop Mark Carney.” Elections Canada says a third party is “generally a person or group that wants to participate in or influence elections other than as a political party, electoral district association, nomination contestant or candidate.”
Rebel News - Bias and Credibility
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no
mediabiasfactcheck.com
"Overall, we rate Rebel News Right Biased and Questionable based on the promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, poor sourcing, and several failed fact checks."
Doesn't sound like they're "not liars" to me there, Tax.
You have no reporting, you have, at most, opinions with a sprinkling of maybe 'news'.
And it's not honest, it's right leaning/biased. I mean, see above.
I've seen some of Rebel's work and read it; it's biased and not 'honest' at all.
Government paid media outlets being... which ones exactly?
Corporate Media is certainly biased - look at CTV for example who crumpled to right wing pressures to nix a fact check segment all because the snowflakes didn't like that their dear leader was fact checked (nevermind that other people of other parties were also called out for their 'non facts').
To Corporate, it's about $$ and Clicks/Watches/Reads.
The high stakes of defunding the CBC
A Conservative government could dismantle a key instrument of cultural sovereignty and weaken the Canadian media landscape at a critical time.
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Good .The high stakes of defunding the CBC
A Conservative government could dismantle a key instrument of cultural sovereignty and weaken the Canadian media landscape at a critical time.
The public broadcaster made the announcement in an unattributed statement Wednesday alongside a four-page memo summarizing a compensation review report conducted by a human resources consulting firm.
“The Board of Directors, with the advice and concurrence of the President and CEO, has decided to discontinue individual performance pay as part of the overall compensation earned by eligible employees of CBC/Radio-Canada,” read the statement.
“In order to keep overall compensation at the current median level, salaries of those affected will be adjusted to reflect the elimination of individual performance pay.”
The public broadcaster offered the bonuses as performance incentives to executives and over 1,000 non-unionized employees yearly.
CBC/Radio-Canada spokesperson Leon Mar would not say if the salaries of employees who were previously eligible for bonuses would be increased by the exact same amount as the lost performance pay.
apple.news
The public broadcaster has repeatedly come under fire from critics, opposition parties and even the Liberal government for doling out millions of dollars in bonuses to executives all the while laying off staff, so Liberal Leader Mark Carney said on Friday that his government would provide an initial $150-million annual funding increase to CBC and Radio-Canada as part of a new mandate for the public broadcaster.
That initial funding top-up could rise, Carney said.
apple.news
In announcing the plan to scrap the policy, CBC/Radio-Canada said in a statement it wants to focus less on short-term goals like revenue and more on "longer-term public service goals," like improving its "value to all citizens and strengthening Canadian culture." The new compensation structure will reflect that shift, it said.
But management and executive compensation is not necessarily going down as a result.
"In order to keep overall compensation at the current median level, salaries of those affected will be adjusted to reflect the elimination of individual performance pay," the company said.
apple.news
"We (being Mark Carney, speaking of himself as plural) expect that in the coming years, we will continue to increase that funding until it can be compared to that provided by other public broadcasters." (???)
Please, tell us more about these other public broadcasters in Canada that the CBC’s increase in funding is competing against for comparability?
“The Board of Directors, with the advice and concurrence of the President and CEO, has decided to discontinue individual performance pay as part of the overall compensation earned by eligible employees of CBC/Radio-Canada,” read the statement.
“In order to keep overall compensation at the current median level, salaries of those affected will be adjusted to reflect the elimination of individual performance pay.”
The public broadcaster offered the bonuses as performance incentives to executives and over 1,000 non-unionized employees yearly.
CBC/Radio-Canada spokesperson Leon Mar would not say if the salaries of employees who were previously eligible for bonuses would be increased by the exact same amount as the lost performance pay.
CBC boosts executive salaries but eliminates bonuses — National Post
The memo argued that the public broadcaster’s executives are underpaid, but other non-unionized employees’ salaries are aligned with the market
That initial funding top-up could rise, Carney said.
Carney pledges $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC — CBC News
Liberal Leader Mark Carney said on Friday that his government would provide an initial $150-million annual funding increase to CBC and Radio-Canada as part of a new mandate for the public broadcaster.
But management and executive compensation is not necessarily going down as a result.
"In order to keep overall compensation at the current median level, salaries of those affected will be adjusted to reflect the elimination of individual performance pay," the company said.
CBC/Radio-Canada to scrap much-maligned 'performance pay' for managers — CBC News
After a wave of criticism for handing out so-called "performance pay" to managers and other staff when it was considering layoffs, CBC/Radio-Canada's board of directors is ending the practice altogether after a third-party review, the corporation said Wednesday.
Please, tell us more about these other public broadcasters in Canada that the CBC’s increase in funding is competing against for comparability?
"We (being Mark Carney, speaking of himself as plural) expect that in the coming years, we will continue to increase that funding until it can be compared to that provided by other public broadcasters." (???)
Setting themselves up for comparison to the BBC.
Setting themselves up for comparison to the BBC.
That’s not a Canadian (or another Canadian) public broadcaster as far as I know…so how/why should the CBC’s wage structure be pegged against or even compared to the BBC in Britain that’s got about a 50% larger population than Canada, where people (more than the 1%-ish in Canada) actually watch the BBC?
I fail to see any difference between excessive pay and excessive bonuses. IMHO no government employee should ever get a bonus.
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.
torontosun.com
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.
Read Travis Dhanraj's full resignation letter to CBC, email to colleagues
Full resignation letter accuses state broadcaster of behind-the-scenes bias, infighting
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Jul 07, 2025 • Last updated 7 hours ago • 4 minute read
Travis Dhanraj.
Travis Dhanraj.
Former CBC journalist and TV host Travis Dhanraj resigned from the state broadcaster in spectacular form Monday morning, accusing CBC of bias and opposing a diversity of opinions. The Toronto Sun‘s Brian Lilley broke the news in a column that you can read here.
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.
Below is the letter that Dhanraj sent to CBC executives informing them of his resignation. Following that is the all-staff email that Dhanraj sent to his now-former colleagues at CBC.
Subject: Resignation Under Duress – CBC Leadership Has Left Me No Choice
Dear CBC Leadership,
This is an involuntary resignation.
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. After years of service — most recently as the host of Canada Tonight: With Travis Dhanraj — I have been systematically sidelined, retaliated against, and denied the editorial access and institutional support necessary to fulfill my public service role.
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.
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.
I was repeatedly denied access to key newsmakers. Internal booking and editorial protocols were weaponized to create structural barriers for some while empowering others — particularly a small circle of senior Ottawa-based journalists. When I questioned these imbalances, I was met with silence, resistance, and eventually, retaliation. I was fighting for balance and accused of being on a “crusade.”
My show, which I was initially told was a strategic priority, was rebranded. My name removed. My access curtailed. My medical leave was whispered about in the newsroom. I was presented with an NDA tied to an investigation about a tweet about then CBC President Catherine Tait. It was designed not to protect privacy, but to sign away my voice. When I refused, I was further marginalized.
These were not isolated actions. They were part of a pattern that sent a clear message: fall in line or be removed. I stayed as long as I could, but CBC leadership left me with no reasonable path forward.
This has taken a real toll — on my health, my career, and my trust in an institution I once believed I could help reform from within. But the greater harm is to the public: a broadcaster that no longer lives up to its mandate, a culture that resists accountability, and a system that punishes those who dare to challenge it. It is why the CBC is losing trust with Canadians and its audience.
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.
Sincerely,
Travis Dhanraj
Below is the internal email Dhanraj sent to CBC employees shortly after tendering his resignation.
Dear colleagues,
After more than 20 years in Canadian television journalism, I have been forced to resign from CBC News.
This was not a voluntary decision.
It comes after trying to navigate a workplace culture defined by retaliation, exclusion, and psychological harm. A place where asking hard questions — about tokenism masquerading as diversity, problematic political coverage protocols, and the erosion of editorial independence — became a career-ending move.
I was once one of CBC’s most visible journalists: a senior parliamentary correspondent, co-host of Marketplace, and most recently, host of Canada Tonight. Promoted as a symbol of progress — until I began questioning the gap between CBC’s stated values and its internal reality.
When I pushed for honest conversations about systemic issues and editorial imbalance, I was shut out. Sidelined. Silenced. And ultimately, erased.
CBC calls itself a champion of inclusion, and public trust. But those ideals are too often deployed as branding tools, not lived principles. And Canadians are noticing.
What’s happening inside this institution is no longer just an internal problem. It’s a public one.
The erosion of trust in the CBC didn’t happen overnight. It’s the result of years of dysfunction at the highest levels — where a small group of insiders on air and in management wields outsized influence, prioritizes spin over substance. Leadership clings to reputation while failing to confront the real reasons viewership is in free fall.
CBC doesn’t need more workshops. It needs accountability. It needs reform. It needs courage.
To those still inside: silence shouldn’t be the price of your paycheque. The only thing that sustains broken systems is fear. And the only way things change is when people speak.
I don’t know what’s coming next but I know there will be efforts to discredit me. Spin. Smears. The usual playbook.
But I’m not here to protect comfort. I’m here to speak truth — even if I have to do it from the outside.
To those who stood by me: thank you. I’ll miss the good people I worked with — many of whom are still trying to do journalism the public deserves, under impossible conditions.
I leave with clarity and my voice intact. You will hear more from me, soon.
Travis
torontosun.com
Full resignation letter accuses state broadcaster of behind-the-scenes bias, infighting
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Jul 07, 2025 • Last updated 7 hours ago • 4 minute read
Travis Dhanraj.
Travis Dhanraj.
Former CBC journalist and TV host Travis Dhanraj resigned from the state broadcaster in spectacular form Monday morning, accusing CBC of bias and opposing a diversity of opinions. The Toronto Sun‘s Brian Lilley broke the news in a column that you can read here.
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.
Below is the letter that Dhanraj sent to CBC executives informing them of his resignation. Following that is the all-staff email that Dhanraj sent to his now-former colleagues at CBC.
Subject: Resignation Under Duress – CBC Leadership Has Left Me No Choice
Dear CBC Leadership,
This is an involuntary resignation.
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. After years of service — most recently as the host of Canada Tonight: With Travis Dhanraj — I have been systematically sidelined, retaliated against, and denied the editorial access and institutional support necessary to fulfill my public service role.
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.
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.
I was repeatedly denied access to key newsmakers. Internal booking and editorial protocols were weaponized to create structural barriers for some while empowering others — particularly a small circle of senior Ottawa-based journalists. When I questioned these imbalances, I was met with silence, resistance, and eventually, retaliation. I was fighting for balance and accused of being on a “crusade.”
My show, which I was initially told was a strategic priority, was rebranded. My name removed. My access curtailed. My medical leave was whispered about in the newsroom. I was presented with an NDA tied to an investigation about a tweet about then CBC President Catherine Tait. It was designed not to protect privacy, but to sign away my voice. When I refused, I was further marginalized.
These were not isolated actions. They were part of a pattern that sent a clear message: fall in line or be removed. I stayed as long as I could, but CBC leadership left me with no reasonable path forward.
This has taken a real toll — on my health, my career, and my trust in an institution I once believed I could help reform from within. But the greater harm is to the public: a broadcaster that no longer lives up to its mandate, a culture that resists accountability, and a system that punishes those who dare to challenge it. It is why the CBC is losing trust with Canadians and its audience.
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.
Sincerely,
Travis Dhanraj
Below is the internal email Dhanraj sent to CBC employees shortly after tendering his resignation.
Dear colleagues,
After more than 20 years in Canadian television journalism, I have been forced to resign from CBC News.
This was not a voluntary decision.
It comes after trying to navigate a workplace culture defined by retaliation, exclusion, and psychological harm. A place where asking hard questions — about tokenism masquerading as diversity, problematic political coverage protocols, and the erosion of editorial independence — became a career-ending move.
I was once one of CBC’s most visible journalists: a senior parliamentary correspondent, co-host of Marketplace, and most recently, host of Canada Tonight. Promoted as a symbol of progress — until I began questioning the gap between CBC’s stated values and its internal reality.
When I pushed for honest conversations about systemic issues and editorial imbalance, I was shut out. Sidelined. Silenced. And ultimately, erased.
CBC calls itself a champion of inclusion, and public trust. But those ideals are too often deployed as branding tools, not lived principles. And Canadians are noticing.
What’s happening inside this institution is no longer just an internal problem. It’s a public one.
The erosion of trust in the CBC didn’t happen overnight. It’s the result of years of dysfunction at the highest levels — where a small group of insiders on air and in management wields outsized influence, prioritizes spin over substance. Leadership clings to reputation while failing to confront the real reasons viewership is in free fall.
CBC doesn’t need more workshops. It needs accountability. It needs reform. It needs courage.
To those still inside: silence shouldn’t be the price of your paycheque. The only thing that sustains broken systems is fear. And the only way things change is when people speak.
I don’t know what’s coming next but I know there will be efforts to discredit me. Spin. Smears. The usual playbook.
But I’m not here to protect comfort. I’m here to speak truth — even if I have to do it from the outside.
To those who stood by me: thank you. I’ll miss the good people I worked with — many of whom are still trying to do journalism the public deserves, under impossible conditions.
I leave with clarity and my voice intact. You will hear more from me, soon.
Travis
Read Travis Dhanraj's full resignation letter to CBC, email to colleagues
A letter from former host Travis Dhanraj to CBC leadership and an email to colleagues accuses the CBC of bias and infighting.
Yep, kinda like the extreme right claims to be upholding "Canadian values."
Show me some , I am curious who in Canadian politics you consider the extreme right .
Dhanraj still employed, CBC says, despite going public with resignation
Former TV host quit in public spat with broadcaster, which has rejected his resignation
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Jul 08, 2025 • Last updated 15 hours ago • 3 minute read
Travis Dhanraj.
Travis Dhanraj.
It seems that CBC thinks it is Hotel California: You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave.
CBC host Travis Dhanraj resigned from the state broadcaster in a very public manner on Monday, including sending a letter of resignation to executives and an email to staff. Both documents were very critical of CBC for being a dysfunctional and toxic workplace, paying lip service to diversity but really engaging in tokenism and not accepting diversity of opinion.
On Tuesday, Dhanraj’s lawyer Kathryn Marshall said CBC had contacted her to say that they were “not accepting Travis’ resignation.” Seems Dhanraj was on leave when he said he was quitting and CBC’s human resources department said he can’t simply do that.
That’s a point a CBC spokesperson confirmed with me, saying Dhanraj is an employee but is on leave at the moment.
But he already quit and quite publicly.
“I have been systematically sidelined, retaliated against and denied the editorial access and institutional support necessary to fulfil my public service role,” Dhanraj said in his resignation letter.
In an email blast to all CBC staff sent out before his access to company email was cut off, Dhanraj said he didn’t want to resign but was ultimately forced to do so.
“It comes after trying to navigate a workplace culture defined by retaliation, exclusion and psychological harm. A place where asking hard questions — about tokenism masquerading as diversity, problematic political coverage protocols and the erosion of editorial independence — became a career-ending move,” Dhanraj said.
CBC’s response to all of this, beyond trying to pretend that Dhanraj hasn’t already left the building, is to portray this as an attack on them and their reputation.
“We are saddened to see this public attack on the integrity of CBC News,” spokesperson Kerry Kelly told CBC News.
I don’t know how CBC can defend what their political shows have become. They pretend to be neutral arbiters of truth, but in reality CBC’s Power and Politics and Rosie Barton Live regurgitate talking points directly from the Prime Minister’s Office.
That was true when it was run by Justin Trudeau and it remains true now with Mark Carney in power.
Try to get through an episode of Power and Politics where host David Cochrane doesn’t interrupt whichever Conservative they bring on by explaining what the real Liberal point is. That doesn’t happen in the other direction when a Liberal makes a false assertion about the Conservatives or their policies.
If this were a private network, they could do what they want, but it is a publicly owned network that isn’t supposed to be taking sides and claims not to take sides, but clearly does.
I should be providing an example from Rosie Barton Live as well, but like most Canadians I can’t be bothered to watch that show. I’ve seen a few clips online and it is awful and, really, we all only have so much time in a day.
In his resignation letter, which CBC is rejecting, and his email to staff, Dhanraj implores those still at CBC to fight for a better broadcaster.
“CBC doesn’t need more workshops. It needs accountability. It needs reform. It needs courage,” Dhanraj wrote to what should now be his former fellow colleagues.
“To those still inside: Silence shouldn’t be the price of your paycheque. The only thing that sustains broken systems is fear. And the only way things change is when people speak.”
Will anyone speak up for change or reform at CBC?
Given what they have done to someone they recruited to join their network, who they built a show around, who they invested heavily in and then discarded, the answer is not likely.
Dhanraj said people shouldn’t be silent for a paycheque, but after watching what happened to him that is likely the route most will choose.
torontosun.com
Former TV host quit in public spat with broadcaster, which has rejected his resignation
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Jul 08, 2025 • Last updated 15 hours ago • 3 minute read
Travis Dhanraj.
Travis Dhanraj.
It seems that CBC thinks it is Hotel California: You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave.
CBC host Travis Dhanraj resigned from the state broadcaster in a very public manner on Monday, including sending a letter of resignation to executives and an email to staff. Both documents were very critical of CBC for being a dysfunctional and toxic workplace, paying lip service to diversity but really engaging in tokenism and not accepting diversity of opinion.
On Tuesday, Dhanraj’s lawyer Kathryn Marshall said CBC had contacted her to say that they were “not accepting Travis’ resignation.” Seems Dhanraj was on leave when he said he was quitting and CBC’s human resources department said he can’t simply do that.
That’s a point a CBC spokesperson confirmed with me, saying Dhanraj is an employee but is on leave at the moment.
But he already quit and quite publicly.
“I have been systematically sidelined, retaliated against and denied the editorial access and institutional support necessary to fulfil my public service role,” Dhanraj said in his resignation letter.
In an email blast to all CBC staff sent out before his access to company email was cut off, Dhanraj said he didn’t want to resign but was ultimately forced to do so.
“It comes after trying to navigate a workplace culture defined by retaliation, exclusion and psychological harm. A place where asking hard questions — about tokenism masquerading as diversity, problematic political coverage protocols and the erosion of editorial independence — became a career-ending move,” Dhanraj said.
CBC’s response to all of this, beyond trying to pretend that Dhanraj hasn’t already left the building, is to portray this as an attack on them and their reputation.
“We are saddened to see this public attack on the integrity of CBC News,” spokesperson Kerry Kelly told CBC News.
I don’t know how CBC can defend what their political shows have become. They pretend to be neutral arbiters of truth, but in reality CBC’s Power and Politics and Rosie Barton Live regurgitate talking points directly from the Prime Minister’s Office.
That was true when it was run by Justin Trudeau and it remains true now with Mark Carney in power.
Try to get through an episode of Power and Politics where host David Cochrane doesn’t interrupt whichever Conservative they bring on by explaining what the real Liberal point is. That doesn’t happen in the other direction when a Liberal makes a false assertion about the Conservatives or their policies.
If this were a private network, they could do what they want, but it is a publicly owned network that isn’t supposed to be taking sides and claims not to take sides, but clearly does.
I should be providing an example from Rosie Barton Live as well, but like most Canadians I can’t be bothered to watch that show. I’ve seen a few clips online and it is awful and, really, we all only have so much time in a day.
In his resignation letter, which CBC is rejecting, and his email to staff, Dhanraj implores those still at CBC to fight for a better broadcaster.
“CBC doesn’t need more workshops. It needs accountability. It needs reform. It needs courage,” Dhanraj wrote to what should now be his former fellow colleagues.
“To those still inside: Silence shouldn’t be the price of your paycheque. The only thing that sustains broken systems is fear. And the only way things change is when people speak.”
Will anyone speak up for change or reform at CBC?
Given what they have done to someone they recruited to join their network, who they built a show around, who they invested heavily in and then discarded, the answer is not likely.
Dhanraj said people shouldn’t be silent for a paycheque, but after watching what happened to him that is likely the route most will choose.
LILLEY: Dhanraj still employed, CBC says, despite going public with resignation
Travis Dhanraj lit up CBC as he quit the state broadcaster this week, but CBC says they reject his resignation and he remains an employee.