CBC is a Crown Corporation and Canada’s national public broadcaster. It has a huge budget largely paid for by taxpayers. Most people who watch CBC News believe it is accurate and objective. Let’s see if this is true.
According to CBC’s page devoted to corrections.
CBC News is committed to transparency and accountability to our audience whenever we need to correct or clarify our journalism. Corrections and clarifications are noted directly on all digital posts. Updates that significantly change the audience's understanding of a report on any platform are logged on this page.
CBC has a web page for tracking wildfires. The page’s introduction reads:
Canada recently experienced two of its worst wildfire seasons on record. More than five million hectares burned last year — the most in recent years, aside from 2023, when wildfires scorched 16 million hectares. Alberta was hit especially hard, including the popular tourist town of Jasper, where a third of the community burned in July 2024.
Early signs point to another active wildfire season in 2025, particularly in Western Canada.
Here is an up-to-date look at the country's wildfire situation today.
On July 7, 2025 CBC posted a “correction” conveniently added to the absolute bottom of a long scroll full of graphs and charts.
CBC News corrected this online story about tracking wildfires in Canada. An earlier version of the story stated 2024 was the second worst fire season in Canada's history. In fact, it was the second worst fire season since at least 2010.
The introduction consists of 91 words. The first sentence contained the error. Eleven words out of 91.
The remainder of the article is images, graphs and tables.
This is CBC’s digital platform. CBC posts corrections on its own posts. That is admirable.
Unfortunately, as Canada’s national News broadcaster, its News is captured by all other broadcasters, podcasts, videos, and digital platforms such as 𝕏 and TikTok.
Searching for “two of its worst wildfire seasons on record”, or “second worst fire season since at least 2010” we find no reference to the time period 2010 to 2025. Others have picked up the new corrected clip but not the explanation.
The end result is as if there was no correction.
Readers still would think that "on record” is a long time ago not 2010.
