CBC platforms UCalgary professor Melanee Thomas—whose work frames politics through “liberal colonialism,” “anti-Indigenous racism,” and an “equity lens”—as a neutral expert when the target is Pierre Poilievre. After his Calgary speech, she told CBC he “lean[ed] into the settler colonial history of this space” and offered only “a very particular white settler history,” then dismissed the rest as “pretty much the Conservative Party of Canada campaign speech.” When Mark Carney delivered a unity speech in the same city the night before, CBC switched to full speeches, loving/cheerleading live coverage, and “passionate” framing with almost no scrutiny One gets the expert label and the settler-colonial framing. The other gets the soft-focus treatment. That’s not journalism