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May 13, 2021 · A lawsuit launched by the CBC against the Conservative Party of Canada in the final days of the 2019 federal election accusing the party of copyright infringement for using the broadcaster's...
Oct 12, 2019 · CBC/Radio-Canada says it will remove the names of journalists Rosemary Barton and John Paul Tasker from a lawsuit filed against the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) alleging copyright infringement.
- Connie Thiessen
May 13, 2021 · A lawsuit launched by the CBC against the Conservative Party of Canada in the final days of the 2019 federal election accusing the party of copyright infringement for using the broadcaster's...
Sep 18, 2020 · When the suit was filed, CBC journalists Rosemary Barton and John Paul Tasker were included as co-applicants. Barton is still the primary face of the CBC’s political coverage, and Tasker’s...
- Colby Cosh
Oct 12, 2019 · The court documents filed Thursday listed The National co-host Rosemary Barton and parliamentary bureau reporter John Paul Tasker as applicants in the filing, along with the CBC.
The dispute centres on the CPC’s use of several news clips – some of which featured CBC news reporters Rosemary Barton and John Paul Tasker, who are (at present) also listed as applicants in the suit – in partisan election advertising videos.
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Oct 14, 2019 · Not only that, it caught two CBC journalists – Rosemary Barton and John Paul Tasker – in the crossfire by naming both as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The CBC now says it will file an application to remove them from the suit, but the potential reputational harm arising from suing a political party may be difficult to undo.
