A first-of-its-kind independent economic forecast shows regulatory changes espoused by the Harper government and adopted in last year’s CRTC Let’s Talk TV announcements will likely lead to the loss of more than 15,000 Canadian jobs and take $1.4 billion from the Canadian economy annually by 2020. Co-authored by the economic and media consulting firm Nordicity … Read more
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting issued a statement saying that the CBC is refusing to air TV ads intended to hold the Harper government accountable for the damage it has done to the national public broadcaster. Instead, the ads, sponsored by the watchdog group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, will air on Bell, Rogers and Shaw channels … Read more
The Senate Transport and Communication Committee’s report on the challenges facing the CBC released would fundamentally change the national public broadcaster for the worse, according to the watchdog group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. “This report faithfully reflects the Prime Minister’s well-known hostility towards Canada’s national public broadcaster,” said Friends’ Spokesperson Ian Morrison. The committee’s proposals to … Read more
The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting issued a release regarding the CBC cuts. The group has launched a new social media advertising campaign. The centrepiece of the ‘Free the CBC’ campaign is a satirical video Friends released online at www.FreetheCBC.ca.
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting issued a statement about the unbundling of cable TV packages. They said consumers will likely face higher prices if unbundling is announced in the throne speech. Spokesperson for the group Ian Morrison said “[c]able monopolies have become expert at fleecing consumers and, left to their own devices are almost certain to take … Read more
The CBC has refused to air television ads that challenge the government's takeover of the national public broadcaster. The ads, commissioned by the watchdog group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, promote Free The CBC, a campaign to oppose the government's 'gambit' to undermine the CBC's independence by taking direct control of the wages and working conditions … Read more
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting said that the CBC's new licences, announced on May 28 by Canada’s broadcast regulator, are the culmination of years of neglect by successive governments and the product of the current governments’ hostility toward public broadcasting in Canada. More information is available online. Call 613-447-9592.
Many of Canada’s leading authorities and practitioners of journalism are calling for changes to Bill C-60 Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1, so that the government’s budget legislation does not do irreparable harm to the editorial independence of the CBC. A letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) signed by fourteen eminent Canadians … Read more
No public broadcaster in any free and democratic country anywhere in the world faces political interference with its editorial independence as proposed for the CBC in Bill C-60, Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1, said The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting in a public statement. A down payment of more than 120,000 signatures on petitions … Read more
The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting said that in the wake of the announcement of new measures that will further undermine the CBC’s independence from government, newly assembled data from Elections Canada show that more than half of the CBC’s directors are or have been financial supporters of the Conservative Party. More information is available online. … Read more
