Food Professor says CBC, La Presse blacklisted him after media subsidy criticism

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says media quietly froze him out after he criticized taxpayer-funded media. The state broadcaster denies any blacklist.

Source: X (The Food Professor)

Dalhousie University food policy expert Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says Radio-Canada blacklisted him after he questioned taxpayer subsidies for the media — an allegation CBC/Radio-Canada flatly denies.

Charlebois, known as the “Food Professor,” says a Radio-Canada journalist recently called him with a startling message: “We’re no longer allowed to speak with you.”

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Received a call from a French-CBC reporter this week. Reporter: “I’ve been told that we’re no longer allowed to speak with you, and La Presse is encouraging us to distance ourselves from you because of what you wrote about media subsidies. Is that true?” Me: “Quite possibly. La

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According to Charlebois, the reporter suggested his criticism of government-funded media — and his public falling out with La Presse — was behind the alleged freeze-out.

Charlebois went further, alleging “editorial ties” between La Presse and CBC/Radio-Canada are “well known in Montreal.”

“When one outlet shuts you out, the other often follows,” he wrote on X, claiming some CBC/Radio-Canada journalists are frustrated by “unwritten rules.”

CBC says that simply isn’t true.