# Jian Ghomeshi, host of Q on CBC, fired. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645 "2014-10-27T13:31:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/301 "2014-11-29T13:52:14Z")
“CBC management knew of Ghomeshi allegations since June,” according to [this article](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/cbc-management-knew-of-ghomeshi-allegations-since-june-documentary/article21836903/?click=sf_globe) and a CBC documentary. I haven’t watched the documentary yet. I think it’s available online. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/302 "2014-11-29T17:43:10Z")
[http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/m/site/](http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/m/site/) Top of that page is the latest episode of W5 which is the documentary you may be speaking of. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/303 "2014-11-29T18:34:39Z")
Thanks. Yes, it was what I was talking about. I just finished watching it. Found it on YouTube on the CBC’s News YouTube channel. The article I posted in my previous post sums up much of the documentary, I find. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/304 "2014-11-29T20:45:55Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > “Jian Ghomeshi’s PR strategy has been an epic fail,” according to [this article.](http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/11/26/jian_ghomeshi_a_textbook_pr_fail.html?app=noRedirect) An article about all the mistakes he’s made in this whole story, over the past month. This reads like a press release from the ‘Crisis Management’ firm named in the third paragraph (the traditional place in a PR press release to name the company). ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/305 "2014-11-30T03:05:42Z")
[This article](https://asunews.asu.edu/20141113-chimpanzee-aggression) on sexual aggression in chimpanzees really hits a nerve. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/306 "2014-11-30T22:29:16Z")
I read in a local Montreal French-language newspaper that Ghomeshi will be back in court January 8, if I read it correctly and I’m remembering it correctly. On Tuesday night I accidentally fell asleep with CBC Radio on and was shocked awake in the middle of the night by the sound of Ghomeshi’s voice. It was a radio show using a sound clip of his voice in a news story. Looking back, I think the radio show must have been PRI’s “The World.” I don’t know much about PRI, but looking at their [website](http://www.pri.org/programs/the-world), it says they’re in partnership with BBC and WGBH. These news items go to show you that this story is being reported outside of English Canada and the CBC, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/307 "2014-12-02T15:39:59Z")
[Article in the Guardian](http://ht.ly/FdOm1) by one of Ghomeshi’s victims, a Q employee, on how the CBC enabled him. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/308 "2014-12-05T01:20:34Z")
Not much news about the scandal lately, but here’s a news article I just found, from yesterday, I think. [Jian Ghomeshi booked guests that shared his agent, lawyer](http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/12/03/jian_ghomeshi_booked_guests_that_shared_his_agent_lawyer.html) - explains how some of Q’s guests were chosen. From the article: “The apparent favouring of some musicians over others has rankled artists who have found themselves shut out of Q.” ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/309 "2014-12-18T16:58:11Z")
Thought I’d update this thread with the news that the CBC is removing Ghomeshi’s old interviews/shows from its online archives. [Here’s one article](CBC hears no evil, scrubs Ghomeshi from archives) on the subject (this article is by Jesse Brown, who was instrumental in breaking the story in the first place.) ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/310 "2014-12-23T21:29:55Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Thought I’d update this thread with the news that the CBC is removing Ghomeshi’s old interviews/shows from its online archives. [Here’s one article](CBC hears no evil, scrubs Ghomeshi from archives) on the subject (this article is by Jesse Brown, who was instrumental in breaking the story in the first place.) [Or maybe not, apparently.](http://www.imediaethics.org/News/4956/Canadian_broadcasting_corp_changes_position__not_scrubbing_fired_host_jian_ghomeshis_work_from_cbc_news_site.php) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/311 "2015-01-06T03:33:53Z")
Heads are starting to, well, not roll, but wobble a bit at CBC: [CBC suspends two senior executives who managed Ghomeshi file](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/cbc-disciplines-executives-who-managed-ghomeshi-file/article22300293/) > [@](#): > > CBC has suspended the two senior executives who managed the Jian Ghomeshi file months before it exploded into view last fall, including one of the disgraced radio host’s primary champions. > > In a memo to employees Monday afternoon, the public broadcaster announced that Chris Boyce, the executive director of CBC Radio, and Todd Spencer, its executive director of human resources and industrial relations, had been placed on leaves of absence. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/312 "2015-01-07T23:17:17Z")
Trial starts Thursday, though, [this article says](http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/crime/jian-ghomeshi-sex-assault-trial-starts-thursday-in-toronto-court/article/422633), probably not a lot will happen on that day. ---
**Author:** ![AZRob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azrob/32/3003_2.png) [@AZRob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AZRob)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/313 "2015-01-07T23:26:56Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > [Article in the Guardian](http://ht.ly/FdOm1) by one of Ghomeshi’s victims, a Q employee, on how the CBC enabled him. That was a powerful article Emily, thanks for posting it. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/314 "2015-01-07T23:51:55Z")
You’re welcome, **AZRob**. I wonder if we’ll hear much about the trial tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/315 "2015-01-08T15:53:56Z")
Ghomeshi faces 3 new charges, according to [this article](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jian-ghomeshi-faces-3-new-sexual-assault-charges-1.2893723). He appeared in court today. His next court appearance is February 4. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/316 "2015-03-11T13:08:59Z")
Thought I’d update this thread to say that [rapper Shad has been named the new host of Q.](http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/meet-shad-host-of-the-new-q-on-thursday-1.2990048) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/317 "2015-03-11T14:06:44Z")
Should have been Kevin Smith. I was amazed how good he was. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/318 "2015-03-11T18:42:40Z")
I really liked Candy Palmater. Though I imagine Shad will do well, and may pull in some new listeners too. I’m just kind of wondering if/how his music career will continue. ---
**Author:** ![corvidae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@corvidae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corvidae)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/319 "2015-03-12T12:27:32Z")
I like Shad, I think he does a great job. I think Wab Kinew also would have been a good choice. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645/320 "2015-03-12T12:40:20Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Should have been Kevin Smith. I was amazed how good he was. Should have been Kevin Smith at what? I like him and would like to know what you are referring to and where I can find it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-on-cbc-fired/702645.md?page=17)