CBC president denies broadcaster is biased or poaches journalists from smaller markets

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At a parliamentary committee hearing on journalism on Thursday, CBC president Marie-Philippe Bouchard denied the public broadcaster's news coverage is biased or that it poaches journalists from smaller media outlets in regional markets.

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