Criticism of immigrants, pit bull owners, don't violate code, says CBSC

OTTAWA – Telling immigrants to go home if they don’t like it here and saying that pit bulls – along with their “white trash” owners – ought to be put to sleep, doesn’t violate the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said today. Last September the topic of Bruce Allen’s 90-second editorial, Reality Check, which airs on Corus Radio’s CKNW, was immigrants and the accommodation of their traditions. The following week, Allen appeared on the Christy Clark Show to discuss his commentary, which had generated considerable public controversy. The CBSC’s British Columbia Regional Panel...