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Blame technology. According to the Inside the CBC blog, the reason behind CBC.ca was down for much of Thursday 29 May was “a major data storage ‘fallover’ involving all redundancy systems”.

Despite the site being down, work continued behind the scenes, as Jonathan Dube of CBC News’ director of digital media explained:

What you couldn’t see was that the CBCNews.ca staff continued to write and update dozens more stories all day long behind the scenes. [They did] extra work to enter the stories into two publishing systems, because we wanted to make sure that as soon as the site came back up, it was completely up-to-date — and that’s exactly what happened.

At least the content management system was still up and running then, even if no one could see the new material.

(Cross-post from Newslab.ca)