A former CBC employee has won a grievance against the national broadcaster after he was fired based on information taken from his private messaging accounts.
Ahmar Khan had been hired by the CBC in November, 2018, and based in Winnipeg, documents say. A year into his contract, he tweeted in response to Don Cherry’s racist Remembrance Day rant about poppies. Khan called Cherry’s comments “xenophobic” and called for his show to be cancelled. The tweet received thousands of impressions.
Soon after, Melanie Verhaeghe, the managing editor of CBC Manitoba, asked Khan to remove the tweet, saying it went against CBC’s journalistic practices that state reporters cannot express opinions about topics that they could cover. According to the document, she sought the advice of Paul Hambleton, who is in charge of CBC’s journalistic standards policies.
“[If Mr. Khan] wants to be an activist he should step down,” Hambleton replied.
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