Heritage minister pitches CBC/Radio-Canada overhaul and a major funding hike
Heritage minister pitches CBC/Radio-Canada overhaul and a major funding hike
This right here is why the right wing hates CBC
"CBC will never be controlled by Musk or Zuckerberg. It will never belong to billionaire tech oligarchs. It will always belong to the people of Canada," she said,
Doubling the CBC budget? Building high speed rail?
The Liberal's election campaign teases sound kind of shockingly pre-neoliberal. This is going to be a very interesting couple of months.
I mean, and I didn't track all his campaign promises and what he delivered on or not, but JT said he'd legalise weed, he did. If the Libs say they'll invest in modern high-speed rail and double the CBC budget, and they only partially follow through on one? Still better than PP would do. He'd cut CBC funding, send it to far right "media".
Whichever party can promise another season or two of Anne will secure the majority government.
I think a funding hike is a little tone-deaf, considering many of us are at risk of losing our jobs at the moment.
The lower the funding for the CBC, the more at risk of losing our jobs we are. There's a hidden premise that as CBC funding decreases, right wing propaganda increases to fill the voids, which leads to more unemployment and depressed wages long-term. So counterintuitively, more money to the CBC should derisk our jobs. Up to a point of course. 🥹
A funding hike for the CBC will mean that they'll be able to hire more people.
You know how the government can create jobs?
By funding things that require employees.