CBC reassigns reporter who fed questions on Mulroney/Schreiber affair to MP

OTTAWA – The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on Monday released a letter it sent to the Conservative Party, indicating that its reporter Krista Erickson did provide an opposition party member with questions prior to the Ethics Committee hearing in December on the Mulroney/Schreiber affair. As a result, Erickson has been removed from the story and reassigned to the public broadcaster’s Toronto offices, effective today. In the letter to Conservative Party director of political operations, Doug Finley, a CBC executive writes that an investigation by CBC News senior management found there “was no bias in related news coverage.” The publisher of CBC...