The complainant, Domenico Celli, thought CBC was deliberately lying when meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe pointed out some possible influence of climate change on hurricane Harvey. She was giving documented scientific information. She did not overstate the connection. COMPLAINT You objected to a comment made by meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe in a conversation with National guest host Susan…
President of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms and spokesperson for a Christian school in Alberta, thought coverage of a dispute between the local school board and his school was biased. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsman: Controversy vs. Controversial
The complainant asked if there was censorship at work when he was told there were already Chris Alexander supporters on line when he called the Ontario Noon phone-in. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsman: Balancing a live phone-in. It’s not so simple.
The complainant had concerns about a bar graph in an article explaining how to follow election results on the CBC news site on B.C. election day. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsman: Pictures vs. Words
The complainant thought the Power & Politics treatment of events in Syria was too one-sided. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsman: Covering Syria
The complainant was present in the House of Commons 35 years ago when a female MP got up to ask a question about violence against women. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsman: Fair Edits – What gets published has to reflect what happened
The complainant objected to a conversation with a British Columbia Civil Liberties lawyer on the question of electronic device searches at the U.S. border.
By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, William Heavenor, was concerned about the qualifying phrase “even so” in a paragraph about the makeup of the federal firearms advisory committee. Its placement made him suspicious that the writer was implying that the presence of white people on the committee was somehow wrong. In fact, the context…
By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman William McDowell, legal counsel to J.D. Irving Limited (JDI), wrote to complain about the Twitter activity of the provincial affairs correspondent in New Brunswick, Jacques Poitras. He was concerned that the activity on both the reporter’s CBC Twitter account and the one he uses to promote his books put him…
By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The Alberta Teachers’ Association released a toolkit for creating curriculum dealing with “sexual and minority genders.” The complainant, Greg Murphy, questioned the balance and fairness of an article about the handbook framed by the objections raised by a critic. He thought it misrepresented the document and distorted its meaning. There…