Toronto Sun Columnist: New Memo Tells CBC Journalists Not to Refer to 9/11 As a Terrorist Attack

This is one of those posts that this editor was about to scroll by, thinking it was clickbait. The government-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was instructing its writers, on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, not to call them terrorist attacks? Are they being sensitive to their "newcomers," hoping there's no Norm Macdonald-style backlash? This is an opinion column written by The Toronto Sun's Brian Lilley, and he says he's seen the memo.

CBC can't get anymore ridiculous right?
New memo tells CBC journalists not to call 9/11 a terrorist attack.
What do you think of this?https://t.co/qjl1S8zp48
— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) August 26, 2026

Rage bait, right? Even Hasan Piker, who believes America deserved 9/11, would agree it was a successful terrorist attack. Lilley writes:

This week, I received a memo — presumably confidential — addressed to CBC News staff. It is authored by one Basem Boshra, who is the “Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust at CBC News.” In Boshra’s memo, reporters are editors are told this:
“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.”
Boshra states that all in bold letters, italicized, as if to emphasize the point. To make clear it is a directive, not a suggestion.
It goes on. “The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes,” it reads, again in italics. There is no recognition in the CBC memo — none — that “hijacking that leads to passenger jet crashes” is not a protest, or a vote. It is a terrorist act, full stop.

So, basically, some people did something.

Show us the memo
— Tony Chapman (@TonyChapman) August 26, 2026

Tony, I can see if we can post it, but CBC acknowledged it is real and defended it.
— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) August 26, 2026

As if we needed another reason not to watch the @CBC @CBCNews . This country has become a shell of its former self. And you can trace it back, in every metric, to November 2015 when the Libs took office. GDP, health care, happiness, education, crime, inflation, taxes, debt…
— Trevor Swain (@TrevSwain21) August 26, 2026

CBC is compromised by leftist progressives and foreign actors with interests other than Canada. It’s clear and obvious to anyone not infected with the woke mind virus.
— Chris Ryan (@Watchdog_MP) August 26, 2026

Basem Boshra “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.” pic.twitter.com/NjUOL7tzvn
— Jody Dahrouge (@JodyDahrouge) August 26, 2026

It's fast becoming a war of words in the presence of suicidal empathy.
— Wynne Lienhardt (@CCGALinTX) August 26, 2026

I think it's past the time that CBC loses all it's funding, let individual liberals fund that garbage. But we know that would never happen as liberals love using other people's money to fund their ridiculous agenda. I know people that died in that TERRORIST attack.
— Don Davidson (@DavidsonDo40325) August 26, 2026

This editor is still finding it hard to believe this story is real. September 11 was a series of passenger jet crashes?

Defund, and fire the guy who sent the memo.

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Toronto Sun Columnist: New Memo Tells CBC Journalists Not to Refer to 9/11 As a Terrorist Attack

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