What we ended up with is streaming services dominated either by US brands, or Canadian incumbents that exist only because of government granted exclusivity and not because they provide an actual public service.
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I even see the CBC as not representing Canadians, but representing the Dominion of Canada institutions in ways that are unhelpful for maintaining the union. Their style of propaganda regularly generates alienation, and not only from the subordinate peripheries that was created by Canada's Northward and Westward expansion post-1867. This far too regularly gets confused with a partisan bias, given many of the current partisan brands grew out of that alienation (Reform from the west that took over the Conservative party, CCF/NDP from the west, and the Bloc Quebecois trying to recreate Lower Canada -- regularly mistaking northward expansion of the Canadian empire as part of an expansion of their French empire loyalists https://ecwpress.com/products/never-without-consent ).
A great post to start my day. Your historical piece reminded me of my early journey of discovering the World Wide Web in the early nineties. Thanks Glen. Well written, timely, and an enjoyable read. M.
That was then, this is now.
I look at https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/37-2/c-11 , https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/44-1/c-11 and parts of https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/41-1/C-11 I see a government that wanted to protect incumbent corporations (primarily US based, but that didn't seem to matter) over Canadian innovation for communicating with Canadians.
What we ended up with is streaming services dominated either by US brands, or Canadian incumbents that exist only because of government granted exclusivity and not because they provide an actual public service.
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I even see the CBC as not representing Canadians, but representing the Dominion of Canada institutions in ways that are unhelpful for maintaining the union. Their style of propaganda regularly generates alienation, and not only from the subordinate peripheries that was created by Canada's Northward and Westward expansion post-1867. This far too regularly gets confused with a partisan bias, given many of the current partisan brands grew out of that alienation (Reform from the west that took over the Conservative party, CCF/NDP from the west, and the Bloc Quebecois trying to recreate Lower Canada -- regularly mistaking northward expansion of the Canadian empire as part of an expansion of their French empire loyalists https://ecwpress.com/products/never-without-consent ).
A great post to start my day. Your historical piece reminded me of my early journey of discovering the World Wide Web in the early nineties. Thanks Glen. Well written, timely, and an enjoyable read. M.
We're still within reach of that aim, but only with sweeping changes focusing on restoring independent, high quality journalism