Dig Deeper
The CBC Radio 2 National Response Bibliography (PDF download)
This “bibliography” actually contains a collection of most of the articles and opinion on our site as well as other commentary in the press since the announcement of the elimination of the CBC Radio Orchestra.
Access to Information requests
Do you want to find out more information about the activities of the CBC? Have you ever wondered how much all of that advertising for the New Radio 2 has cost? Do you wonder what is said at the meetings of the Board of Directors? Dig deeper. It’s not too difficult. Visit the CBC’s own ATI request web page to start an Access to Information request, and/or read all about it at the government’s Access to Information Act web site.
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
The FCB Media Monitor search engine: Canada’s leading database for news stories on the broadcasting system, media ownership and cultural policies
Background on CBC management and Board
The government-appointed (unelected) CBC managers and Board of Directors who are transforming our culture have virtually no background in non-pop culture.
CBC Board of Directors (from CBC web site)
CBC Senior Management Team (from the CBC web site)
To explore their background, visit our Profiles Page.
Background on Government
Books to Read
Our reading list features books written by past presidents of the CBC and other famous CBC employees and critics.
April 2005 CBC internal report on which these changes are based.
Judge for yourself what the CBC is doing. Read their report, which they commissioned to be the basis upon which the changes will be implemented. Of particular interest is to read how they interpret the “data” in their Implications paragraphs. Also read Janet Danielson’s critique of the report.
SPIN 101
CBC managers have all been given the same “position paper” to coach them to give stock answers to questions and criticisms of their programming changes. We obtained a copy of this and analyzed a recent Vancouver Sun article penned by Chris Boyce to find that almost the entire “authored” piece of writing by this CBC middle manager is simple regurgitation of the position paper. Read it here.
The Hockey Theme
Several articles have been written about CBC fumbling the Hockey theme. Our page link to several of these.
Richard Bradshaw December 2005 analysis still pertinent
from Martin Knelmann article on the Canadian Arts Coalition Web Site.
“When Winston Churchill was told he might have to cut Britain’s budget for the arts during World War II, he replied, “Then what are we fighting for?’” – Richard Bradshaw
…broader picture, cuts to the arts, etc.…
ELECTION SPECIAL LINKS…web sites below. Click here for page of news articles
Subsidies to the Arts are great for the economy
StatsCan reports that, with $6.8 billion in funding from all levels of government, the arts sector contributes $26 billion to the Canadian economy and employs 740,000 workers. That is more than the agricultural, forestry, fishing, gas, utilities, oil or mining sectors (all of which also receive government subsidies). Cuts to the arts will harm the economy.
The Wrecking Ball web site: new political theatre
Open letters from Yann Martel, Wajdi Mouawad and others to Stephen Harper
Bill C-10
The Canadian government introduced a bill that passed in the house that would allow bureaucrats to withhold funding to Telefilm projects that they deemed to be “too offensive.” Interestingly, this censorship would only apply to films made in Canada with Telefilm funding. Any USA films would not be subject to the same restrictions. Read this article to get started.
Integrate This
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America proposes to “integrate” North American resources. The INTEGRATE THIS web site details how the Canadian government is acting in private and not listening to citizens. There is speculation that public funding of cultural institutions is “on the table” for discussion. From their home page:
“On the eve of the fourth annual Security and Prosperity Partnership summit in New Orleans, a groundbreaking Council of Canadians poll shows conclusively that an overwhelming majority of Canadians disagree with the main policy objectives of the secretive trilateral agreement: regulatory harmonization, energy integration, closer security links with the United States, and bulk water exports. The widespread discontent with the SPP agenda sends a powerful message to Prime Minister Harper that he has no democratic mandate for pursuing continental integration with his Mexican and American counterparts. The Council of Canadians will be taking that information to a People’s Summit in New Orleans next week, timed to coincide with the official SPP meeting April 21-22. The People’s Summit was organized by grassroots groups in New Orleans who have invited international civil society organizations to discuss the SPP, its corporate goals for North America, and its direct impact on the lives of communities.”
Other Arts News Sites
These sites report on a wide range of topics related to the arts, including the effect of public policy on the arts.
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