By Montreal Simon When Evan Solomon was appointed host of the CBC program “Power and Politics,” I didn’t think he would be able to fill the very large shoes of the departing Don Newman. He was missing about 30 years of journalistic experience. And although I was right, he gradually began to win me over, in […]
The CBC is not its board
By Montreal Simon Ever since the CBC was hit by the Ghomeshi scandal, and now the Amanda Lang Affair, the CBC haters in this country have been having a ball. Trying to use the scandals as just another excuse to kill the corporation. For those Cons hate it so much with a zealotry that borders […]
Lang: Indian workers are just better
By Alison@Creekside “Information technology workers displaced in Canada are being replaced not by cheap Indian workers but by better ones.” So says CBC’s Amanda Lang, senior business correspondent for CBC News and good cop to Kevin O’Leary’s bad cop on “The Lang and O’Leary Exchange,” in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. She wonders if Canadians have returned to […]
