The Senate wants CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate rewritten around local communities, with public station-level reports showing whether the money follows the promise.
I would like to see a more local content on CBC Radio. I have no experience with CBC TV.
Do not interpret my comment above to mean "more reporters". Like the mayor of Gaspé, I want to hear more serious topics and good journalism. It needs to replace the reporting/opinion hybrid which is the staple because of the head office's philosophical focus.
Also, it seems the majority of witnesses to speak at this committee addressed francophone services. Is that really the case?
I pulled Appendix B of the Senate Transport and Communications report Local News Matters. The committee lists over 60 witnesses by name. Francophone official-language minority groups form a large bloc on several sitting days, but not a majority of that list. The same appendix includes Canadian Heritage, the CRTC, private broadcasters, English-language minority groups in Quebec, Northern media, individual journalists, and CBC executives.
As a youth living in Northern Ontario, we received 2 television signals, the first, Canal Quatre from Rouyn-Noranda, and CFCL from Timmins, which was a CBC station. On that channel we got Forest Rangers, Razzle Dazzle, Chez Helene, Hockey Night in Canada and other entertainment and of course news, which was CBC national news and CFCL's local news
Excellent article. I support the comments of Scott and Russell in that the CBC and Radio Canada needs to do more. It is truly the vehicle that binds the country as information needs to be vetted and remain free of bias. I also believe that much more local and community engagement and relevance needs to be part of the formula within a modern streaming context. We want to avoid what is happening to the BBC while keeping our national broadcaster fully funded. I too hope that the CBC reads your article. Let’s make certain by mailing them copy. Or at least have a national journalist get a hold of it. Many thanks.
I think there are major changes needed to CBC. I agree that it received more public money than similar private broadcasters, but that doesn't in my mind make it a public interest media organization.
I'll throw in an idea from 2016 when the CBC was asking for money to go advertisement-free.
A very good article, Mike. I laud CBC as the sole media in providing national coverage and I enjoy listening or reading about the myriad regions in Canada. But yes, CBC must up their game seriously in providing ample local coverage and network with local and local private media entities. This would have the benefit of showing important local news as opposed to any concentration of “central” Canadian news.
At some point in the far distant past, the CBC might have helped to bring cohesion to Canada. From the point when Lester Pearson decided Canada was to become a "progressive" nation (and I mean politics, not technology), the CBC has been working toward the destruction of western culture in general and Canada in particular, as slow as a Fabian tortoise.
I don't think Canadians who disagree with neoMarxist ideology should be forced to pay for the CBC's propaganda. I don't know if defunding the CBC would force them to return to more balanced content or not but it's a good start.
I would like to see a more local content on CBC Radio. I have no experience with CBC TV.
Do not interpret my comment above to mean "more reporters". Like the mayor of Gaspé, I want to hear more serious topics and good journalism. It needs to replace the reporting/opinion hybrid which is the staple because of the head office's philosophical focus.
Also, it seems the majority of witnesses to speak at this committee addressed francophone services. Is that really the case?
I pulled Appendix B of the Senate Transport and Communications report Local News Matters. The committee lists over 60 witnesses by name. Francophone official-language minority groups form a large bloc on several sitting days, but not a majority of that list. The same appendix includes Canadian Heritage, the CRTC, private broadcasters, English-language minority groups in Quebec, Northern media, individual journalists, and CBC executives.
As a youth living in Northern Ontario, we received 2 television signals, the first, Canal Quatre from Rouyn-Noranda, and CFCL from Timmins, which was a CBC station. On that channel we got Forest Rangers, Razzle Dazzle, Chez Helene, Hockey Night in Canada and other entertainment and of course news, which was CBC national news and CFCL's local news
Excellent article. I support the comments of Scott and Russell in that the CBC and Radio Canada needs to do more. It is truly the vehicle that binds the country as information needs to be vetted and remain free of bias. I also believe that much more local and community engagement and relevance needs to be part of the formula within a modern streaming context. We want to avoid what is happening to the BBC while keeping our national broadcaster fully funded. I too hope that the CBC reads your article. Let’s make certain by mailing them copy. Or at least have a national journalist get a hold of it. Many thanks.
Hopefully the CBC or a national journalist does get a hold of it. Thanks Franco.
Well. Both Althea Raj and Andrew Coyne seem to be on Substack so maybe 🤔
When CBC reports on itself is a problem.
Or a built-in auto correct.
I think there are major changes needed to CBC. I agree that it received more public money than similar private broadcasters, but that doesn't in my mind make it a public interest media organization.
I'll throw in an idea from 2016 when the CBC was asking for money to go advertisement-free.
https://r.flora.ca/p/ad-free-cbc-why-not-shift-money-to
I wish Canadian governments would fund local media directly, rather than policy always being focused on a few mega-corporations.
A very good article, Mike. I laud CBC as the sole media in providing national coverage and I enjoy listening or reading about the myriad regions in Canada. But yes, CBC must up their game seriously in providing ample local coverage and network with local and local private media entities. This would have the benefit of showing important local news as opposed to any concentration of “central” Canadian news.
I hope CBC reads your article.
At some point in the far distant past, the CBC might have helped to bring cohesion to Canada. From the point when Lester Pearson decided Canada was to become a "progressive" nation (and I mean politics, not technology), the CBC has been working toward the destruction of western culture in general and Canada in particular, as slow as a Fabian tortoise.
I don't think Canadians who disagree with neoMarxist ideology should be forced to pay for the CBC's propaganda. I don't know if defunding the CBC would force them to return to more balanced content or not but it's a good start.