For the second time this week, the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council says it has been so overloaded with complaints about a single TV segment that it’s no longer accepting new submissions.

Once again, the latest case involved the Don Cherry controversy.

Complaints flooded in this week following an episode of the CTV daytime show “The Social” during which correspondent Jessica Allen voiced her thoughts on hockey culture and the hockey icon’s comments during a “Coach’s Corner” segment Saturday night.

Cherry was fired after 37 years on Hockey Night in Canada after the he complained immigrants — whom he referred to as “you people” — weren’t wearing poppies honouring veterans.

Allen said on a show broadcast Tuesday that she doesn’t “worship at the altar of hockey” and found in her experience that those who did “all tended to be white boys who weren’t, let’s say, very nice,” adding “they were not generally thoughtful, they were often bullies.”

Many hockey parents expressed anger over the comments and the hashtag “FireJessAllen” was soon created. Allen later clarified that she was only speaking to her own experiences with specific people who were hockey players.

The broadcasting council said it has received a large volume of very similar complaints over the CTV daytime show.

“To ensure that all complaints are dealt with efficiently and in a timely manner, the CBSC limits the number of complaints it will accept in respect of the same broadcast,” the organization said in a statement Thursday.

“The CBSC process does not vary based on the number of complaints made. The same consideration is given to one single valid complaint as to multiple complaints on the same matter. The CBSC is now dealing with ‘The Social’ under its normal process. As a result, no further complaints will be accepted by the CBSC on this issue.”

On Monday, the council said it would no longer be taking complaints on Saturday night’s Coach’s Corner segment and his Cherry’s controversial comments about immigrants and Remembrance Day after its online system was flooded over the weekend.

In its statement, the CBSC said it also received a flood of complaints objecting to Sportsnet’s decision to fire Cherry. However, the council said, it has no jurisdiction over broadcasters’ employment decisions.

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With files from The Canadian Press

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