"Aggressive" Sun News Network interview deemed acceptable by CBSC

OTTAWA – Despite being inundated with complaints, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has found that a Sun News Network interview did not breach any broadcast codes. At issue was an interview that aired on the public affairs program Canada Live on June 1, 2011 between host Krista Erickson and Canadian interpretive dancer Margie Gillis. As part of a series of segments that the channel did on taxpayer funded grants for the arts, Erickson grilled Gillis over the public funding that she has received throughout her career. Erickson displayed on screen the dollar amounts that Gillis and her dance foundation had...