The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission announced Wednesday afternoon that it was removing RT and RT France from the list of non-Canadian programming services and stations authorized for distribution in Canada.The multilingual 24-hour news channel launched in 2005, when it was known as Russia Today, and now appears in more than 100 countries, according to its website.
"The CRTC is also concerned with programming from a foreign country that seeks to undermine the sovereignty of another country, demean Canadians of a particular ethnic background and undermine democratic institutions within Canada." "The Commission is of the preliminary view that RT's programming may not be consistent with the Commissions's broadcasting regulations, in particular, the abuse comment provisions such as those set out in Section 5 of the Television Broadcasting Regulations 1987," the CRTC said on its website.
Jason Woycheshyn, president of the Ukrainian Canadian Bar Association, was one of the individuals who made a submission to the CRTC. He asked the CRTC to ban RT, arguing that there is "no need [for] or interest" in Russian propaganda in Canada.
The Apple RT App is back up today in Canada! Why has the CRTC allowed this?
Still available on internet.
What the fuck. The irony in this is so real
It is a wrong move. We need to know what they are feeding their audience. I on purpose watch Fox so I try to understand how people are manipulated. We have to keep communication going otherwise we will be divided into our respective echo chambers.
What happened to media freedom and freedom of speech?
'What you saw was an algorithmic censorship campaign taking root, where Google & multinational corps that control social media giants, preemptively changed the algorithm, back-paged independent media & indie news.' -AbbyMartin
Wise decision!!
Is the CCTR also going to remove the state controlled (funded and PR arm of Cdn gov.) CBC from Canadian airwaves, or is it only the media it doesn't approve of that's being removed... inquiring minds want to know🤔😏
Canada’s Constitution tells us about freedom of speech, except if the State feels threatened by some speech which would expose the lies and therefore, threatens the social order by opening the eyes of the ruled people. State controlled media licenses is in effect State Media..
CRTC in the same Story line as “Russian State Controlled” Lol
Do FoxNews next, kick it off Canada's airwaves. FoxNewsFascistPropaganda FoxAndFriends = FoxAndFascists
Can we remove American propaganda networks too, like CNN, NBC, etc?
Trudeau and Biden truly is looking for WW3 to happen sickening that ppl accually voted for these two
Hear only my version of truth. Not his!
cbc you are state propaganda the states pays your wage
No mention of the state-controlled however….
The government is politely telling us that in Canada we are all stupid. Therefore Mr Trudeau has to decide what we watch on TV. I am sick of it. This is a bunch of BS.
Why?
And Fox?
CBCTheNational
You know, CBC the National, that pause of 2 in between the news, where you broadcast still pictures from around the World, the 2 minutes pause, Ok, today you repeated what you already published few days ago. Exactly the same series of photos. Please pay more attention.
CBCTheNational
Long overdue.
Can it also do FoxNetworks? How about the Christian/Conservative TV network known as CTV? Or that rag known as The Sun? Or Rebel Newz? Or The True North? Amongst other far-right agents.
NOW DO FoxNews
What about the 600000 Russians in Canada? Is RT bad for them? BBC, CBC, CTV and the war regime media in the US are the problem!! What's next CGTN, Al jazzra?
I think there hiding something...Ukraine can send propaganda but Russia can't I think we should be able to choose
Trudeau doesn’t want us to know exactly what is going on… he is hiding stuff from is sheeps.
All part of the plan from the beginning.. The USA started that war not Russia and Trudeau government is taking full advantage of the smoke screen to flex powers they shouldn’t have. You will be censured and silenced next
Why was it ever allowed in ? And why does FOX propaganda channel have air time in Canada ? It is destroying democracy in the USA
Scared of others seeing the other side? Wow
State funded media giants don't get a long I guess.
Fox news next please
Lol… reading the replies… soooo many fanatical trolls and poser’s on social media.
At this moment, Justin “Little Adolf”, is having his chief archivist remove all material from the government archives that she finds offensive. Wtf?
That's rather authoritarian of us isn't it?
Now it’s time for Fox to go
NOW!!!!
CBCTheNational Meanwhile, Justin is giving a pep up talk to the Elite Canadian Military Task Force responsible to urgently go retrain the Ukrainian Azov Batallion...
Now I relegated to western propagands
And what about FOX propaganda? Why us that allowed in Canada? Why are Canadian minds allowed to be poisoned by FOX?
HYPOCRITE AT LARGE and you say Russia is controlling it's citizens
Help Ukraine!🇺🇦🇺🇦
What's the matter, are you afraid someone else can lie better then you ?
CBCTheNational but left cbc do you really Trudeau news to be the only news
Love it Canada,keep going!
Cool does that mean my Shaw bill should be lower?.
I never watch RT before. But, watching for the last 2 weeks, I trust RT more than CBC.
Good, now do Fox. BanFoxNews
Voic6Indigenous About time!
should of been done a long time ago
This is not freedom of speech. Let people decide what's true or false not the government
Just do it remove the Russian network.
You mean it took regulatory action to have Rogers, et al, remove it? Despicable. But, typical for Canadian broadband companies. America's DIRECTV satellite service, it's only major customer there, removed it almost 3 weeks ago. The US service had to immediately shut down.
Not sure what the point is. People can tell a pack of lies when they hear it. Or at least most of them can.
On what grounds is RT_com being removed exactly? Violation ? What CRTCeng rule did it violate in the past 24 hrs? Did it even get a hearing or afforded rights to a lawyer or response to charges if any under laws or procedures? Canada hasn't declared War,nor does it matter
Chinese caught smuggling babies out of Ukraine—at the ROMANIAN border.
We also denied Fox News a broadcast license, years ago.
RT is just a propaganda machine for Russia. Good on the CRTC.
CBCTheNational Now do FoxNews!
I'm glad my government tells me what to think, they know best and we know nothing... Gorvern me harder daddy!
It is removed in Greece as Well being part of the FREE World!
The only reason to do this is if they were telling a truth you didn't like and wanted to suppress. We all know RT is backed by the Russian government and assume editorial slant and bias. Very likely more truth in RT programming than in Fox News shows.
Who's removing you guys?
Now do FOX
That's a relief! Snap!!!
good. took a long time though considering it's been obvious kremlin propaganda for a long time
It’s funny I had no idea RT was part of my cable package until recently. I never wanted that channel & no it’s gone. I would like Shaw cable to tell customers why they had that channel in the first place.
Have you seen RT? Pretty balanced reporting. I always liked to watch it but bow it is not available in Canada on Youtube. We are all adults here. Let us make our own decisions.
NO RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA ! JUST CANADIAN AND AMERICAN PROPAGANDA! PROPAGANDA IS PROPAGANDA, AND THAT IS WHAT WE WILL BE FED BECAUSE WE ARE SHEEP AND COWS. BHAA BHAA AND MOO MOO I'M GLAD TO BE PART OF THE HUMAN ZOO! NAME ONE TIME THAT YOU WEREN'T LIED TO BY T.V.
CBC Trudeau totally disagree. Are not we leaving in a country that leads respect for other opinions? Banning is controlling the information. The gov wants us to have a free thinking 😡 very sad
Why did it take this long
lookner Now they need to crack down on CCP propaganda and the chills on youtube. Many thanx to laowhy86 SerpentZA and CCP Shill Buster!
Are we not doing the same thing Putin is doing?
Right on👍. Btw I just found out that tech stores are no longer selling kaspersky antivirus, which is Russian. The more boycotts of Russian products, the better. 👍
Yet the CBC propaganda machine keeps rolling. Sorry to hear about that $1.95 million libel bill. Dang, eh?
Do we need to know the truth? The state decides for us, we are not allow to know the other side of the story. Our billions of tax dollars goes to military of foreign organizations.
We are doing this NOW Wow Canada you keep making me more and more proud.
Censorship?
Cbc first
Can still watch it on the net. This will affect the 6 people who still get their news off the tv
These comments are exactly what I expected.
I think people should not be comparing cbc to Russia news propaganda stations, maybe being without real freedom might change minds. We have so many freedoms, yes even this freedom to freely condemn free news stations, but ask yourself why, look around and admire our freedom
Became a propaganda machine under Yelsin. Should have been gone a long time ago.
So like CNN or Fox News?
lookner ..has decided it's not in the public interest for the public to have the freedom to choose..
blocking means of communication is not the answer. CRTC should know better that Canadians are intelligent enough to know whats good for them and whats not. this is censorship. In this case, Canada is no different than Russia. shameful at what we have become
Can they also remove the robo calls while they are at it…
Why did the CRTCeng tell me they can’t do anything about Fox News and that we would have to ask service providers to do something about it? It’s literally the same content and is a danger to our democracy.
Fox I mean Fix news should be next. Nothing but propaganda. I asked to take fox news off my bill, but bell Alliant said they would have to get rid of all my news stations, maybe cbc should look into that
EVERY COUNTRY has propaganda. INCLUDING Canada and USA.
Only Canadian propaganda allowed, join the regime, common good
Good riddance
The regime in Canada wants a monopoly on propaganda
CBC next
Now do FoxNews
So now we have to watch shitty American and Canadian news channels. Why are you guys so scared to telecast the other side of the story?
Freedom of speech and opinion in Canada! American puppets!
Can we seriously look at FOX News next?
Ban them
Thank you!
What took so long
Now do Fox News.
On What grounds?
lol pot meet kettle
Thanks Thought Police... Without you I wouldn't know what to think... I might even end up questioning The Party, and God forbid that probably get my bank account frozen or something...
Before banning RT, that you can watch at BTW, Canada should had disproved what RT was saying...instead of brainwashing Canadans with american BS
Canada the fascist state! Censorship Surveillance Criminalizing protest Arming Nazis (via Canadian Nazi CAFreeland).
Next Fox News
lookner
Freedom of information!?
Love a free speech country with only one opinion.
I'm a Canadian and it's in my interest to have access to RT. I was raised to ask questions, consider all sides and make up my own opinions. Canada now freezes bank accounts, bans apposing opinions and demonizes citizens of a foreign country. 1/2
Could we ban bleeping FoxNews while we’re at it.
Now do CBC
Hybride Warfare is no freedom of speech. So it's the right way to ban RT.
Now do fox news.
Updated from cbcnews CRTC bans Russian state-controlled TV channels RT, RT France from Canadian airwaves.
Next: Rebel News
lookner Yeah we don’t want this filth on our Tv screens thank you 😊
Now do Fox News.
It is censorship..to prevent Canadians to see the other side of the story....Things are never black and white, and MSM keeps lying all day long to hide the truth
aballinga It’s not in the government interest to have someone present the other side of the argument. Who is brainwashing Canadians now.