Western Standard - March 15, 2026


The Pipeline breaks down Travis Dhanraj’s explosive CBC testimony


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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

145.76431

Word count

308

Sentence count

7


Summary

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In this episode, we talk about the scandal that is happening at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and why it's time to wake up to the fact that the CBC is a 1.4 BILLION DOLLAR black hole.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 travis donraj we um i know he issued a call for the cbc to broadcast his hearing uh at a
00:00:06.880 parliamentary committee uh they did not do that right no no they did not but we did yeah we did
00:00:13.280 and uh some other independent uh media outlets did and it was it was certainly must watch tv uh
00:00:20.320 mr donraj as you may know got uh fired or let go from he resigned no and then they tried to not
00:00:28.480 not let him resign. Anyways, he resigned because he'd lost editorial control over his show. He was
00:00:36.720 told he couldn't hire, he couldn't bring on certain guests. And then that's what he talked
00:00:40.960 about. He talked about an absolute toxic culture at the CBC, where conservative voices are
00:00:48.660 blacklisted. And he said there's a list of 46 people, I'm sure Corey's on it, that the CBC
00:00:56.120 is not allowed or cbc hosts are not allowed to interview and apparently this was this came
00:01:01.540 up through uh rosie barton our favorite host and david cochran our second favorite host those two
00:01:08.360 came off looking absolutely terrible uh david cochran came off as a as a vile little man who
00:01:15.320 called tamara leach uh trailer trash and he just went on for hours conveniently on medical leave
00:01:21.120 yes he went on medical leave yesterday at least he doesn't have a hot mic no no but it was
00:01:27.720 oh yeah rosemary is the uh the trudeau loving uh host of power not power in politics but she's the
00:01:40.300 cbc main political uh correspondent and it just exposed he went on for a couple hours just exposed
00:01:46.140 the absolute dire culture and the need for an absolute either cutting the funding off
00:01:51.820 or reforming it or doing something with it because right now it's a 1.4 billion dollar black hole