Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

==== 2005 lock-out ====
On August 15, 2005, 5,500 employees of the CBC (about 90%) were [[lockout (industry)|locked out]] by CBC CEO [[Robert Rabinovitch]] in a dispute over future hiring practices. At issue were the rules governing the hiring of contract workers in preference to full-time hires. The locked-out employees were members of the [[Canadian Media Guild]], representing all production, journalistic and on-air personnel outside Quebec and Moncton, including several foreign correspondents. While CBC services continued during the lock-out, they were primarily made up of repeats, with news programming from the [[BBC]] and newswires.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 17, 2005 |title=With lockout, depleted CBC struggling to stay timely |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/with-lockout-depleted-cbc-struggling-to-stay-timely/article4119988/ |access-date=April 24, 2023}}</ref> Major CBC programs such as ''[[The National (TV program)|The National]]'' and ''[[Royal Canadian Air Farce (TV series)|Royal Canadian Air Farce]]'' were not produced during the lock-out; some non-CBC-owned programs seen on the network, such as ''[[The Red Green Show]]'', shifted to other studios. Meanwhile, the locked-out employees produced podcasts and websites such as ''CBCunplugged.com''.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

After a hiatus, talks re-opened. On September 23, [[Joe Fontana]], the federal minister of labour, called Rabinovitch and Arnold Amber—the president of the CBC branch of the [[Canadian Media Guild]]—to his office for talks aimed at ending the dispute. Late in the evening of October 2, 2005, it was announced that the CBC management and staff had reached a tentative deal which resulted in the CBC returning to normal operations on October 11. Some speculated that the looming October 8 start date for the network's most important television property, ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'', had acted as an additional incentive to resolve the dispute.

While all labour disputes resulted in cut-back programming and numerous repeat airings, the 2005 lock-out may have been the most damaging to CBC. All local programming in the affected regions was cancelled and replaced by abbreviated national newscasts and national radio morning shows. [[BBC World]] (television) and [[BBC World Service|World Service]] (radio), as well as [[Broadcast News (Canada)|Broadcast News]] feeds, were used to provide the remainder of original news content, and the CBC website consisted mainly of rewritten wire copy. Some BBC staff protested against their material being used during the CBC lock-out. "The [[National Union of Journalists|NUJ]] and [[Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union|BECTU]] will not tolerate their members' work being used against colleagues in Canada", said a joint statement by BBC unions. The CMG questioned whether, with its limited Canadian news content, the CBC was meeting its legal requirements under the ''Broadcasting Act'' and its CRTC licences.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC benefits on the backs of CBC employees|url=http://www.cmg.ca/cbcnegsmediaEN.html#BBC|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051211002604/http://www.cmg.ca/cbcnegsmediaEN.html#BBC|archive-date=December 11, 2005}}</ref>

[[Galaxie (radio)|Galaxie]] (which CBC owned at the time) supplied some music content for the radio networks. Tapes of aired or produced documentaries, interviews and entertainment programs were also aired widely. Selected television sports coverage, including that of the [[Canadian Football League]], continued, but without commentary.

As before, French-language staff outside of Quebec were also affected by the 2005 lock-out, although with Quebec producing the bulk of the French networks' programming, those networks were not as visibly affected by the dispute apart from local programs.