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Totally support that, and it's a great time for it as Canada's under threat and many Canadians are boycotting US media products.
Personally, since cutting off US media and switching to CBC, I've really enjoyed a lot of Canadian content and I've found myself more appreciative and interested in Canadian cultural products overall.
Canada needs a strong public broadcaster. Conservatives hate the CBC because it isn't owned by a foreign billionaire and doesn't spew extremist right wing propaganda.
The past few years the CBC has been leaning harder right but I think that they may have been trying to butter up the conservatives because of the, then, impending conservative win. There has been a lot of anti-electric car and anti-heat pump pieces in the past 2 years.
I don't think they are anti electric calls... I think they just honestly report the facts, they will state the electric cars really do struggle in our winters. Battery's runout and the charging grid isn't there yet, they definately don't say anything that's "anti ev" but they will state the truth: if you're buying a new car TODAY, depending on your driving habits, an EV in Canada, just isn't really viable ATM, give it 5 years
Now more than ever I see the value on the CBC.
My local media just publish verbatim releases from police and corporations.
Check and see if it's owned by Postmedia. Even if not, a lot of news media are guilty of being lazy and just pushing PR without giving it a critical look.... sometimes without even really reading over it....
Nobody had to tell me to stop reading a conservative wank sheet.
K, all I'm saying is that a large number of small local media outlets are being bought out by American owned conglomerates. No need to live up your name. :(
Not sure how I hurt your feelings. Have a hug.
Tbh. Wasn't you. Been delicate the last few days.
Have another hug.
Thanks Fam! Could definitely use it....
Sweet! Tax cuts benefiting the wealthy and new spending!
Joking aside: juicing CBC's mandate to cover local news is great. There are strong arguments that it should stop selling ads for some services (like podcasts and local news) so small producers have a shot at getting started. Hopefully that'll be included in the mandate change.
Meanwhile Pollivere wants to get rid of CBC
The "free market" should determine what the news is! /s
Looking at the all the outlets owned by billionaires. They also don't report on wealth inequality. Isn't that a weird coincidence?
Yep. Just look at the globe and mail. Today they published a hit piece fomenting Alberta separatism. They are owned by the Thomson family. The richest family in Canada. Surprise surprise.
“Why do we need to tell people what they need to hear? Why can’t we just tell them what they want to hear?”
-Ron Burgundy
I'm not sure if everyone knows this, but commercial weather forecasters get their weather information from Environment Canada, the American NOAA, and so on. Very few have their own weather satellites etc. The Environment Canada weather forecasts are pretty barebones, but they're the kind that are useful for pilots, shipping, etc. The Weather Network, Weather Channel, AccuWeather, all take that information and build on it for fancier and more user-friendly weather reports.
I think it would be great if the CBC could have a basic news wire service that commercial news services could build on. The local bureaus that Carney is recommending don't have to be full setups with reporters doing live to-camera pieces. They could be more like Thomson Reuters dispatches (a Canadian company btw). That would make the money go farther, and would provide a barebones framework for the more detailed reporting that say City or CTV wanted to do.
Anyhow, it's great that the current PM (and likely future PM) is a guy who lived and worked in London for a while, and understands how great the BBC is.
The Environment Canada weather forecasts are pretty barebones
I'm going to have to disagree with you on that. I actually really like how Environment Canada presents their forecasts. They have a text description for each day, which I like because it shows how much data they actually have about the forecast for that day. Also, no ads and no bullshit on their website.
I have decided to do my part and pay the $6 a month rather than just creating new email addresses when there is news I want to see or using my pihole to avoid ads.
Same here! Can’t say I watch a ton on gen (other than local news which was free anyway) but access to CBC news network is nice. And have been getting back into 22 minutes!
I have been watching several CBC shows, without ads via my pi-hole, I would watch CBC news via youtube whenever I wanted to and could because CBCNN is not always streaming but now that I am not paying for youtube and trying to get off of youtube, first by watching less US stuff. Seeing as how I got a refund for my year worth of youtube, and several other US service providers, I can afford the $6 a month to watch CBCNN ad free on the CBC app.