Date of publication: June 10, 2022 • 1 hour ago • 4 minutes reading • 38 comments Former eTalk co-host Danielle Graham in 2016. Photo by George Pimentel / WireImage / File
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Danielle Graham, a former presenter of CTV’s flagship entertainment show, has sued the network’s owners, saying she was fired in retaliation for challenging gender discrimination against women, including refusing to be promoted, receiving less pay and less. free work requests.
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Graham, 42, left as a presenter for eTalk, which CTV says is Canada’s most popular entertainment news magazine in March. In her indictment filed Friday, she claims she was fired in response to her complaint of “persistent, persistent and systematic discrimination on the grounds of her gender as a woman in Bell”. Bell Media Inc. has CTV. Graham said her termination came a day before her lawyer was scheduled to meet with CTV Vice President David Diegel, “to discuss discrimination and gender-based abuse. “He was fired specifically to prevent this meeting. “She had complained three times in the past year alone, expressing concerns about blatant gender discrimination against women in Bell, endemic discrimination on CTV,” she said.
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He claims that a male co-presenter was promoted to it despite his “heavy disability” because the station is an “old boys club”. Requests for comments from Daigle, Bell’s legal advisor, CTV and eTalk reporters and eTalk presenter Tyrone Edwards, sent late Friday afternoon, were not answered before the deadline. Sarah McLaren, Bell Media’s director of public relations, said the company had not received the request, “but we do not comment on staffing issues that concern current or former employees.” Plaintiff was never a primate and unprotestingly made most of the anchor Graham joined eTalk in 2007 as a reporter when Ben Mulroney was a presenter and became a presenter in 2017. “The plaintiff has always received second-hand treatment from the main host, Ben Mulroney, but led him to believe that, after his departure, he would become the superior anchor. “The Plaintiff has always admired and respected Mulroney as a distinguished colleague,” the statement said.
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In 2020, Mulroney announced that he was resigning from the position of presenter to pave the way for more different voices. At the time, Mulroney said: “I hope the new anchor is a Black, Indigenous or colored person who can use this important platform to inspire, lead and make change.” Graham, who is white, claims in her lawsuit that Edwards, who is black and young as an anchor, “entered instead and provided the privileged treatment he previously provided to Mr Mulroney,” despite her claims that he was less experienced, unfulfilled, he was not a superstar or a favorite audience. “Bell even acknowledged his incompetence when he was first offered the position and the plaintiff had objected to this very basis for the sake of her show,” the statement said.
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“The plaintiff was never a prima donna and unprotestingly made most of the anchor,” her lawsuit states. “If Edwards had superior skills than that, he would have accepted his privileged treatment, but it was just the opposite. “He was known internally as manifestly incompetent and was given a higher position than her because of his gender, without any other plausible logic,” she said in a lawsuit filed by the Toronto Bar Association in court. Her claim lists many of Edwards’s alleged weaknesses. CTV, however, promotes Edwards as a talented host. “With his extensive knowledge of pop culture and his innate ability to facilitate his guests in an intimate and honest conversation, Tyrone Edwards brings his expertise to Canada’s most popular entertainment program as ETALK Anchor,” states the CT promotion website .
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When Graham revealed she was leaving eTalk in March, she told social media that she was moving on with “nothing but love.” “It’s time to say goodbye. 15 years beyond my wildest dreams. “I gave everything I had on the show and in return he gave me my whole world,” he wrote on Twitter at the time. Her costume paints a clearly different picture. She said she was “dramatically underpaid” and that she never offered the privileges given to Mulroney and Edwards and that she experienced gender discrimination. The youngest Edwards, when he was a reporter, was offered additional shows, a chauffeur and a more generous compensation, she claims, while three women in the staff had to do an extra show for free. When she told a manager she was pregnant, she allegedly replied, “Oh, again?”
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“While she was 7 months pregnant and found it difficult to stand in high-heeled shoes for long periods, the accommodation needs she sought as a pregnant woman were ignored and she was not allowed to return to the first part of the show to avoid the physical anguish she experienced.” She was asked to do unpaid work while on maternity leave. “Her acquittal, without cause or reason, after many allegations of discrimination on the grounds of sex, was reprehensible and should lead to significant punishment to show the wrath that this treatment deserves, in violation of Community standards and acceptable behavior ». says her claim. After her dismissal, she was offered only three months’ pay despite her 17 years of service, which she claims is a quarter of what was offered to her husband, Randall Graham, when she left Bell Media, where she worked as a creative director of the brand. collaborations. That offer, he said, prompted her to take legal action, “which she would rather avoid,” he says. Graham is seeking $ 1 million in illegal dismissal and $ 1,550,000 in various other alleged damages. None of the allegations have been proven in court. • Email: [email protected] | Twitter: AD_Humphreys
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