Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be the voice of Canadian news? Go behind the scenes with Peter Mansbridge, CBC icon and host of The National, as he prepares to go on air.
Tag Archives: The National
What exactly did Parks Canada secretly pay the CBC $65,000 for?
Jesse Brown on the broadcaster’s deal with the government agency
What students are talking about today (October 30th edition)
Drake graduates, Sandy kills, & good news for graduates
A life in politics
The CBC has uploaded video of Jack Layton on the National in 1985.
And that’s the kind of life it’s been
Lloyd Robertson, 77, is signing off. We think.
The unglorified government
Last night, the CBC aired the second part of Peter Mansbridge’s interview with the Prime Minister, including the following assessment from Mr. Harper of his government’s standing with Canadians.
‘I’m hurt by the Prime Minister’
Helena Guergis tells The National: She considered the Prime Minister to be a friend. She thinks maybe the Prime Minister doesn’t like her husband.
A serious allegation
The CBC led tonight’s National with a rather serious allegation: that detainees in Afghanistan were deliberately transferred so that torture could be used to extract information. The allegation is made by University of Ottawa law professor Amir Attaran, who claims to have seen uncensored documents that indicate this.
Please talk to us
For Peter Mansbridge, it was tough working for the network that wasn’t allowed to cover anything
Mansbridge says, ‘Get over it’
CBC News’s swirly, shiny and frenetic new identity: how’s that working out?