Catherine Tait

Pierre Poilievre reportedly has plans to slash the CBC's budget. That would be a disaster for national unity.

Citing privacy laws, a spokesperson for the Privy Council Office said it cannot disclose details, even though some of that information from past years has been made public.

An appearance by the CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. at a parliamentary committee turned personal on Tuesday, even before Catherine Tait faced a barrage of questions from Conservative MPs over executive bonuses.

The president of CBC and Radio-Canada signalled on Tuesday that she will recommend bonuses are rolled out to executives this year, despite plans to cut 10 per cent of the national broadcaster's workforce.

The CBC is staring down its own annihilation at the hands of a Pierre Poilievre government. So why do its leaders keep giving him new reasons to attack the CBC's existence?

After the head of Canada's public broadcaster gave a newspaper interview earlier this year that promised CBC would eventually become a digital-only product and that criticized Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, senior managers were quick to refute her comments, internal emails suggest.

News leaders and industry experts grapple with the complex challenge of building trust.

The CEO of the CBC is defending its coverage of American politics after Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer suggested the public broadcaster places too much emphasis on the United States and should focus more on Canadian stories.

The Trudeau government has recruited a film and television executive, Catherine Tait, to become the first woman to lead the country's public broadcaster, the CBC.