Radio talk show that named agency employees on-air went too far, says CBSC

OTTAWA – A morning talk show that maligned the wrong government agency and named its employees on air breached a number of broadcast codes, according to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC).The CBSC received a complaint concerning an episode of Maurais Live, a morning talk show broadcast weekdays on CHOI-FM (Radio X, 98.1 FM, Quebec City). In the episode that aired on March 23, 2010, host Dominique Maurais discussed the on-going training activities of specific government agencies.As a part of that episode, Maurais also referred to an investigative story in the Journal de Québec, on the basis of which he was critical of...