I am writing today in order to make an official complaint against CBC reporter Evan Dyer for blocking me on the social media platform X.
No CBC employee should be allowed to block Canadians and that the head of CBC News Brodie Fenlon direct all CBC employees to unblock me and other Canadians immediately.
My tax dollars funds CBC journalists such as Evan Dyer and they must stop blocking my access to their posts on X.
Dean Skoreyko
Update: I’m not the only one who has written CTV News
Update: The Jewish organization Friends of Simon Wiesenththal Center have now complained and are demanding a retraction and apology
To All
I am writing to you today in order to make an official complaint regarding faculty member Joseph Hill’s postings on Twitter.
His Twitter account @nebedaay is full of anti-Semitic slurs and tropes. In light of the international outage over your Sexual Assault Centre’s disgusting signing of the ‘Hamas rape letter’, I will expect this matter is taken equally as serious.
I will also be making a formal complaint to the Ministry of Advanced Education demanding they investigate what looks to be a nest of Jew-hatred within the University of Alberta’s staff and faculty.
It was bad enough discovering that the University of Alberta once had a Waffen SS Nazi member as its chancellor but to now see the extent of the institutionalized anti-Semitism is beyond alarming.
I await your immediate response.
Dean Skoreyko
CBC Ombudsman:
I am writing you today in order to make a formal complaint regarding the article, “Trudeau speaks to Netanyahu cabinet minister after his comments trigger Israeli backlash”, written by John Paul Tasker.
Tasker wrote: “Israel has claimed Hamas used the site as a secret base. Relatively little evidence has been presented publicly to support that assertion.”
This is blatantly false as the Israeli government has shown a tunnel network system underneath this hospital and caches of Hamas weapons.
It’s inconceivable that Tasker did not see the videos and images released by the Israeli military and the obvious conclusion is Tasker intentionally misled the CBC audience.
The CBC has a long history of anti-Israel bias that must stop. I am demanding Tasker be removed from reporting on the Hamas/Israel war, he and his editor be reprimanded, and that the CBC correct and apologize for his disinformation.
I await your immediate response.
Dean Skoreyko
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Below is the CBC’s response:
Dear Dean Skoreyko,
Thank you for your Nov. 16 email to the CBC’s Ombudsman regarding a story posted to cbc.ca entitled “Trudeau speaks to Netanyahu cabinet minister after his comments trigger Israeli backlash.“
As the CBC’s Parliamentary Bureau Chief, CBC News Editor-in-Chief Brodie Fenlon has asked me to reply to you directly, which I am happy to do.
You said you were writing to make a formal complaint regarding this line in the story:
Israel has claimed Hamas used the site as a secret base. Relatively little evidence has been presented publicly to support that assertion.
You said that this was blatantly false, as the Israeli government had shown “a tunnel network system underneath the Al-Shifa hospital and caches of Hamas weapons.”
You said the reporter would have known of videos released by the Israeli military showing what they’d found at the hospital so the obvious conclusion to you was that Mr. Tasker was intentionally misleading the CBC audience.
You accused CBC of “a long history of anti-Israel bias” and called for the reporter to be removed from reporting on the Hamas/Israel war and said CBC should correct the story and apologize for his disinformation.
I looked at the story and don’t share your view of how we reported this story. Allow me to explain why I say that.
This story was about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s call with Israeli cabinet minister Benny Gantz, which took place following the prime minister’s comments about Israel’s military operations in Gaza that earned him a rebuke on Twitter from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The top third of this story reports on the conversations that were taking place following those comments.
In the middle of the story, Mr. Tasker provided some context for what had been happening at the time of the prime minister’s comments, namely the Israeli Defence Force’s military operation around the Al-Shifa hospital and the impact that operation was having on the patients and staff inside the hospital, and what had happened since the IDF secured the facility.
This story was written Thursday morning and posted around midday, while events at the hospital were still unfolding. As you noted in your email, the IDF had released a video showing some of the tunnels under the hospital and images of a few firearms, some flak jackets and grenades and a laptop computer. The IDF said this was evidence backing up its view that Hamas was using the hospital as a headquarters. When we posted our story, the Reuters news agency, which we drew on for some reporting in this story (as we acknowledged at the bottom as “With a file from Reuters”) was reporting the context that the discoveries to that point had not been on a scale that might have been expected given the Israeli claims about the hospital complex. It also reported that information was still changing as the IDF continued to search the grounds.
So if we look again at that section of our story, including the lines immediately before and after the line you are objecting to, that context is there:
The Israeli military took control of the hospital on Wednesday.
Israel has claimed Hamas used the site as a secret base. Relatively little evidence has been presented publicly to support that assertion.
Israeli forces are still searching the property for evidence.
You can certainly argue we could have been more precise in describing exactly what evidence had been collected to that point – it may have been better to be specific and what they’d found. The point was that at that point the evidence the IDF had presented so far was not extensive – but, they were “still searching the property for evidence.” That’s what we knew when we posted the story.
Later in the day, the IDF said it found more tunnels and a vehicle with a cache of weapons, as well as the body of a hostage. We reported that on our flagship radio news program World at 6 and updated that section of the online story to say this:
The Israeli military took control of the hospital in northern Gaza on Wednesday and started searching it for signs that Hamas has used the site as a secret base.
“In the Shifa Hospital, IDF troops found an operational tunnel shaft and a vehicle containing a large number of weapons,” the military said late Thursday, using the acronym for the Israel Defence Forces.
The military also made public videos and photographs of the tunnel shaft and of recovered weapons, including grenades, ammunition and assault weapons.
The military earlier announced that it had found in a structure adjacent to the hospital the body of Yehudit Weiss, 65, one of the dozens of hostages Hamas abducted during its cross-border attack in Israel on Oct. 7.
That was an update to add new information, which I find entirely appropriate on a developing story.
The remaining third of the article picks up on the main focus of the story, which was the fallout from the prime minister’s comments.
CBC News has been striving throughout this crisis, in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, to report on these events with balance and accuracy, guided by our Journalistic Standards and Practices. It is a complex story with information changing every hour. Depending on your own views, you may disagree with our reporting or framing of stories. That is to be expected on a matter that has split Canadians, even when we are being careful to avoid bias. Others will see our coverage very differently and have concerns about bias in another direction. We will continue to cover this story according to our principles.
I hope that explains our approach on this story. Thanks again for writing to share your concerns.
Chris Carter,
CBC News Parliamentary Bureau Chief
Cc: Jack Nagler, CBC Ombudsman
Brodie Fenlon, Editor in Chief, CBC News
Email below sent to Transport Canada
To whom
I’m looking for the contact information as to where I file a criminal complaint regarding CTV journalist Jill Macyshon and others for not wearing a mask as mandated by Transport Canada. Please see attached photo.
I await your response.
Dean Skoreyko
I’ll update when I get a response.
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