Majority Of Canadians Wants Funding Kept Intact
Friday, November 11th, 2011SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/11/10/cbc-funding-cuts-budget-poll-canadian-support_n_1087210.html?ref=email_share EXCERPT: OTTAWA – The Conservative government’s long-standing promise to keep the CBC’s federal funding stable appears to be in tune with public opinion. A Harris-Decima survey conducted for The Canadian Press suggests 46 per cent of Canadians would like the CBC’s funding to stay at the current level and 23 per cent would [...]
Cuts ahead for CBC, arts, Moore says
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011CBC/Radio-Canada is expected to face a cut of at least five per cent in its parliamentary allocation in the next budget, Heritage Minister James Moore says In his first major interview since the Conservative majority government was elected, Moore ruled out privatizing the public broadcaster, but said all government spending, except for health care and [...]
CBC funding secure, heritage minister says
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011Conservative Heritage Minister James Moore says his government believes in the CBC as a key cultural institution and has no plans to cut its funding following his party’s recent electoral victory. “We believe in the national public broadcaster. We have said that we will maintain or increase support for the CBC. That is our platform [...]
Government of Canada renews investment in CBC/Radio-Canada
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011OTTAWA, March 22 OTTAWA, March 22 /CNW/ – CBC/Radio-Canada is pleased to see that in the 2011-2012 Federal Budget tabled today, the Government of Canada announced that the investment of $60 million in funding that CBC/Radio-Canada been receiving since 2001 for Canadian programming initiatives has been renewed for another year. “This is great news for Canadians [...]
CBC Righting the Ship? The last 5 years and the next 5
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011By Justin Beach, February 2, 2011 Way back in 2005 I was fortunate enough to get a short gig at the CBC just in time to be part of the CBC lockout. Although it was a dark time for the Ceeb and everyone’s focus was on getting back to work I can still say “fortunate [...]
Secret plan for CBC revealed – Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Dear Friend, Something very alarming has just come to my attention which I want to share with you on an urgent basis. Stephen Harper’s secret plan for the CBC was revealed on November 23rd when the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage mused publicly about killing our public broadcaster! Dean Del Mastro floated [...]
Media watchdog: Conservatives plan to cut CBC funding by $200 million
Friday, December 5th, 2008By Jessica Werb, The Georgis Straight Publish Date: December 5, 2008 The Conservative party wants to cut $200 million from the CBC’s parliamentary grant, claims an independent watchdog of Canadian programming. In an e-mail sent out yesterday (December 4) by Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, spokesperson Ian Morrison claimed that a confidential source had alerted the [...]