With over 121,000 people petitioning the government people rallying in Sudbury, Cape Breton and other Canadian cities in support of the CBC it is almost unthinkable that the government would bail out the private broadcasters and not help the CBC. The CBC is Canada’s national public broadcaster. It is owned by and paid for by…
It Is Time to Bring Down This Government
I understood when Michael Ignatieff passed the Conservative budget. It was important to get money flowing. Brining down the government one the budget would have delayed for months improvements to unemployment insurance (as slight as they were) and infrastructure dollars. But the budget is done. Todays announcement of layoffs at the CBC was entirely preventable.…
Exposing The Bias at the CBC
Ok so the CBC’s conservative detractors continually say that the CBC has a left wing bias. It’s the same stuff that conservatives in the states say bout the media in general and PBS in particular. These same people claim that the majority of the public doesn’t support the CBC – never mind that the polls…
An Overview of the CBC and its Current Situation
Trying to defend the CBC is largely a thankless task. Since the financial crisis at the CBC became known I have encouraged people to write their MPs and sign petitions and to write the CBC and sign petitions in defense of Radio 3. Obviously there are huge obstacles. First there is the Government itself which…
Recession Doesn’t Really Describe It
There are two schools on the press coverage of the recession so far. The first school says that the media are being overly negative. The media, they claim, is scaring people away from spending money causing the economic downturn to be worse than it is. Personally I can’t agree with this assessment. The economy is…
There’s No Good Timing Anymore: But We Still Need Funny
Denis McGrath has an excellent and readworthy post today about Geri Hall‘s ambush of Dalton McGuinty at a press conference yesterday. Apparently Hall tried to ambush agoraphobic Premiere Dalton McGuinty at a press conference about his new rule that reporters have to stay at least five feet away from him. It turns out though that…
Canadian Film Festival on Hiatus
The Canadian Film Festival, which exists to exhibit the best in Canadian Film and only Canadian film is, for the time being, shut down due to the economic downturn according to the National Post: “Bern Euler, founder and festival director, said he just couldn’t find enough sponsorship dollars to go ahead. “I have movies, I…
Some rambling on space exploration
Something else to thank Doug Drexler’s blogging in recent weeks for here. By way of introduction: Drexler’s been an award-winning makeup artist, scenic artist and now CGI designer/animator – please forgive me for not getting the titles precisely, Doug? – on shows from Star Trek: All the Modern TV Series from Next Generation to Enterprise…
New Petition for the CBC
I don’t know how effective online petitions are, but people seem to like them. When the CBC funding issue first came up I created an event for it on Facebook. This has caused some confusion but I created an event rather than a group because there is a finite timeline. The current funding crisis will…
More Reasons Why Radio 3 Can’t Axe Radio 3
In the last post on CBC funding and Radio 3 I said that it would be foolish for the CBC to axe Radio 3. Radio 3 appeals to a segment of the population where the CBC has little other appeal. Radio 3 is the CBC’s primary presence for those who place the internet at the…