Petition: Stop the CBC Budget Cuts

[Liberalman]

Petition: Stop the CBC Budget Cuts

Stop the Harper Conservative CBC Budget Cuts! - Liberal.ca

As our Conservative government prepares to leave office they are starting to get rid of important departments and agencies.

One crown corporation they want to get rid of is The CBC our public broadcaster. CBC is the only broadcaster that protects our Canadian identity. The rest of the private Canadian broadcasters are American clones.

Our government spent an embarrassingly small amount of money on the 50th anniversary of our flag and had no special ceremony on Parliament Hill.

If you want to show your Canadian patriotism then consider deeply and sign the petition to save the CBC.

 

[Cannuck]

The government should not be cutting the CBCs budget. They should be selling it or shutting it down.

 

[Liberalman]

The government should not be cutting the CBCs budget. They should be selling it or shutting it down.

CBC is worth the investment

 

[Colpy]

Petition: Stop the CBC

There, fixed that for you.
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[Cannuck]

CBC is worth the investment

Then invest in it. Here in Alberta we have CKUA which was a public broadcaster. The government quit funding it and it continued with donations. It's a great station that enough people want. There's no reason the CBC can't do the same

CKUA Radio Network - Original RadioCKUA Radio Network

 

[Liberalman]

Then invest in it. Here in Alberta we have CKUA which was a public broadcaster. The government quit funding it and it continued with donations. It's a great station that enough people want. There's no reason the CBC can't do the same

CKUA Radio Network - Original RadioCKUA Radio Network

CKUA started as a high school station back in the 70s and it's a radio station I think all the university radio stations in Canada run like that. CBC is a big TV and has a lot of radio stations and it's national and it has local programs as well worth the taxpayer investments

 

[DaSleeper]

The government should not be cutting the CBCs budget. They should be selling it or shutting it down.

Gawd help me....I agree with Cannuck.
But I would add..... They get the same deal as Sun with cable and dish TV...which is no deal at all

 

[Cannuck]

CKUA started as a high school station back in the 70s ..

ohhhhh..so close!

History - CKUA Radio NetworkCKUA Radio Network

What's your worry? You afraid there aren't enough people willing to pay for CBC programming? I suspect you're right.

 

[Nuggler]

Not a CBC fan...........

But not a fan of regurgitated US pulp either.

Just don't take away the CFL or Hockey night in Canada.

Kill Don Cherry if you like.

 

[Liberalman]

ohhhhh..so close!

History - CKUA Radio NetworkCKUA Radio Network

What's your worry? You afraid there aren't enough people willing to pay for CBC programming? I suspect you're right.

Taxpayer support is worth it for Canadian identity on the CBC as opposed to American clones

 

[Walter]

Taxpayer support is worth it for Canadian identity on the CBC as opposed to American clones

How pathetic is it that you need someone from the gubmint to tell you what your "identity" is.

 

[Locutus]

cannuck is right.

our moral and intellectual superiors, master debaters, art hounds and root-cause vigilantes should not be funded by the public purse.

 

[Liberalman]

How pathetic is it that you need someone from the gubmint to tell you what your "identity" is.

Walter embrace the Canadian flag and then you will know the importance of taxpayer money supporting the Canadian identity

cannuck is right.

our moral and intellectual superiors, master debaters, art hounds and root-cause vigilantes should not be funded by the public purse.

Prodecting the Canadian way of life with taxpayer money is worth it

 

[Walter]

Nothing the CBC does supports my identity. I haven't watched the CBC for decades.

 

[captain morgan]

Taxpayer support is worth it for Canadian identity on the CBC as opposed to American clones

Ironic, you identify with PET, the man that destroyed the Canadian identity.

 

[Liberalman]

Ironic, you identify with PET, the man that destroyed the Canadian identity.

Captain more like modernized the Canadian Identity like 1982 Constitution Constitution Act, 1982 - The Canadian Encyclopedia and 50% Canadian content on the radio stations and a lot more Taxpayer money for the CBC is worth it

Nothing the CBC does supports my identity. I haven't listen to or watched the CBC for decades.

That's you loss

 

[Walter]

The shows I religiously listened to on CBC radio were Eclectic Circus with Allan McFee (last show 1985), Gilmour's Albums (last show 1997) and Choral Concert with Howard Dyck (last show 2008). Nothing worth listening to now on CBC radio.

 

[MHz]

Do they even have a 'comments' section? If I could capture a 10sec spot of one of their articles then I could do a pointed reply that should get a reply from the reporter or followed up by the reported in a follow up. I could handle that better than the 'read and weep or whatever because nobody is listening.'
Something like the Front Page Challenge of the 21st Century. If the first 4 have sodes have lots of comments and and the next 4 have none then I expect there was a hidden agenda with 'phase I'.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

CBC is worth the investment

Then it should be private investment not taxpayer. If you enjoy it, you fund it.

 

[MHz]

The shows I religiously listened to on CBC radio were Eclectic Circus with Allan McFee (last show 1985), Gilmour's Albums (last show 1997) and Choral Concert with Howard Dyck (last show 2008). Nothing worth listening to now on CBC radio.

You ever listen to CBC North, the messages were 'varied' and 'interesting'. I can't remember how good the news was.
Perhaps you need your own radio station (UHF) so you can chat directly to people around the globe. (or listen in to emergency services in any country you dial up) 30' heavy copper wire is the antenna you must have.

Then it should be private investment not taxpayer. If you enjoy it, you fund it.

The public service part wasn't all that expensive, as a public utility it justified spending $1M so 100 people could hear the station. If you were in that last 10% you would see it as a good investment, as it is as long as you got what is was good for then that is as far as the public funding should have gone. (as you were a donator)