- Cliffy ... Are you claiming that Don Cherry`s Coach`s Corner and Coronation Street`, the CBC`s two most popular programs, have snob appeal. I should have thought they have more slob appeal. Why I even watch them myself.
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- Cliffy ... Are you claiming that Don Cherry`s Coach`s Corner and Coronation Street`, the CBC`s two most popular programs, have snob appeal. I should have thought they have more slob appeal. Why I even watch them myself.
I was thinking more of their radio programming. I hope you don't take Don seriously. He is a clown.
- But the CBC still relies on the annual billion buck subsidy courtesy of the federal taxpayers, a diminishing number of whom watch anything on the CBC. The days are long done when the Conservative government of R.B. Bennett launched and financed the CBC radio network because otherwise Canadians in remote areas of the country would have no access to radio and so the argument to contune after nearly 80 years to still massively subsidize the CBC is in my opinion pretty weak.
- I thought anarchists tended to oppose big government including government control of mass communications resources yet so many of your posts seem like they are left wing big government rather than limited government oriented messages.
Don't know where you got those ideas. I feel that the highest form of government should be the community, the feds would be the lowest, making only foreign policy and inter provincial trade their mandate.
No, I just like to razz the fanatics, and it just seems that most fanatics tend to way out in right field.
- Cliffy ... I first met Don Cherry when I first moved to Toronto in 1979. I took an apartment literally right beside Maple Leaf Gardens and just up the block from the now defunct Westbury Hotel where Leaf people liked to drink and dine. One cold January evening I walked into the main lounge of The Westbury and there sitting all by himself was Don Cherry. I couldn`t resist going over to him and predicting that he was going to be a major star on Hockey Night in Canada (this was his first full season on the show) and I believe Don appreciated my comments.
- Several years ago after I moved to Mississauga not far from where Cherry lives, I bumped into him at a supermarket, recalled the above noted story for him, and we chatted amiably for probably half an hour.
- Let me tell you that any high school drop out who can go on to coach a Stanley Cup winner and become the top rated and paid personality on a national TV network and remain so into his 80s is not a clown.
- In fact, Don is a very bright and intuitive and shrewd guy who knows exactly what his brand is and how best to promote and remain true to said brand and he does it masterfully. No book smarts, no elocution lessons, no elitist airs, but he is hockey smart and quite funny and honest and direct and he also embodies a lot of old time Canadian values and attitudes which we, sometimes to our loss, are gradually discarding. So no I don`t take him seriously on à lot of things but I do very much on hockey and somewhat on Canadian values and heritage.
The Ottawa Sun is a populist rag. I won't even call it right wing since it would be an insult to principled conservatives.
And funding to the CBC ought to be cut. Sure it might have some good programmes, but so do other channels. Cut funding to all of them except possibly the CBC's educational services up North and that's it. Beyond that, we need not subsidize couch potatoes.
And funding to the CBC ought to be cut. Sure it might have some good programmes, but so do other channels. Cut funding to all of them except possibly the CBC's educational services up North and that's it. Beyond that, we need not subsidize couch potatoes.
Ironic that so many of the educated and successful elite would support improved social assistance for the uneducated and unproductive masses who tend to watch cable news and vote against their own interests. You'd think we'd have given up a long time ago. Except that multi-generational ignorance is societal burden. Everyone, including the elite class benefits from a large, productive middle class which is too busy and ambitious to commit crime or abuse drugs. Killing people's dreams and burdening them with a life of poverty is a recipe for revolution.
That why I support a government provided minimum standard of living, where no one is desperate. Basic needs including food, clothing, shelter, health care, security, education are a right... and must be supported through tax systems. If wealth is made or spent in Canada it can be taxed in Canada. The more wealth earned or spent, the more tax paid. Sure that's socialism's costs, but socialism's benefits are that it encourages sustainable economic growth. Once basic needs are met, minimum wage is no longer required. Merit based access to education provides an educated productive workforce. A government managed and regulated infrastructure provides reliable, efficient transportation and energy. Research grants lead to innovation.
A larger more productive middle class leads to a larger more productive elite class. The current direction of the wealthy getting wealthier leads to stagnation and instability.