In the course of the entire segment - which was probably about, oh, 6 minutes or so (which is a pretty major segment in live radio, I think) Nancy Wood never once mentioned that the CRTC dismissed the large majority of the complaints. Kind of an important plot point, in my book. In fact, I think the only mention or description of the actual "offence" was an allusion to the "n-word" having been used. (Talk about sanitization.)

The gentleman she was interviewing - if I remember, his name was Farkas (sp?), who works in some capacity with a youth organization in Little Burgundy, was talking about a class-action lawsuit. I'll be curious to know how far that gets.

So, yeah, Bye Bye in poor taste, and blah blah blah, yada yada yada. I guess we're now invoking that perceived, manufactured, and fictional "human right" to go through one's entire life and never have one's sensibilities offended.

This was not radio's finest moment, CBC Daybreak. At least get some interviewees who have some kind of meaningful, thoughtful and considered insights to offer.

But I am worried that our Public Broadcaster - who takes our tax money - is so clueless about the black community that no one thought this may be in very bad taste.

I have never been a proponent of affirmative action but I just wish that the production staff at Novem had a few black friends who could have told them that this would not fly.

Wow, are we entitled to make a joke about anything in this country????

We might as well keep our mouths shut forever or shall we?

I don't know why this kind of racist humour seems more acceptable in the eyes of Radio-Canada then the jokes about blacks where the n word was abundly used.