Host rapped by CSBC for callers' comments

OTTAWA – A radio host and his station should have been responsible for "controlling" or "mitigating" negative comments about homosexuals made by callers to an open-line program, the CSBC said today. The comments occurred on an episode of the English-Punjabi program the Harjinder Thind Show broadcast on CKYE-FM (Red FM) in Vancouver on January 31, 2008. Host Thind interviewed a representative from an organization called Parents for Democracy in Education about proposed changes to the B.C. school curriculum designed to ensure “proper” representation of homosexuality. The guest alleged that the B.C. Government had “secretly” entered into a contract with a...