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Current TV Granted License for Operation in Canada by CTRC

Current TV, the user generated media outlet founded by Al Gore, has been granted a license for operation in Canada by the CRTC, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. The CRTC announced the license with a few stipulations including a minimum of 35%...

created by Blaine Metzgar | 25 wks ago | updated 25 wks ago
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rakerman

CBC to Cut 800 Jobs, Facing $171 Million Shortfall (Updated)

UPDATE | March 26, 2009: Richard Stursberg, the Executive Vice-President of CBC English Services, announced further details of the cuts to CBC television, radio, and online staff and programming on Thursday....

created by Jarrett Martineau | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago
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Government in Canada should buy out & not bail out U.S. carmakers

Branch plants of U.S. automakers are seeking Canadian taxpayers to bail them out. However, why should Canadians prop up U.S. automobile companies like GM, that destroyed their own zero-emission EV1 Electric Car, in order to appease Oil Industry interests? But, the Canadians...

opinion by agora | 50 wks ago
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How Canadians could buy out rather than bail out U.S. automakers

The book entitled The Proposed Canadian Automobile Transport and Arctic Climatic Protection Act: Toward an environmentally-sensitized and truly made-in-Canada car inspired by the Avro Arrow, was written with the recognition that Climate Change associated with Global...

opinion by agora | 50 wks ago
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dose.daily

CBC Investigates Tasers: Are They Really Safer than Tylenol?

Last year a man traveling from Poland was tasered in the Vancouver International airport and killed. The following week a man in a Nova Scotia Prison was killed from a taser hit. And just this last fall a teen...

created by josiemitchell | 1 year ago | updated 51 wks ago
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A.J.K.

CBC cutting Canadian icons

First the hockey song and now two iconic journalists. I’m taking suggestions on who or what you think is next. Of late, CBC is no stranger to taking the axe to longstanding traditions and things...

opinion by chowdawg | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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CBC's Facebook experiment puts abortion on top

CBC - the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - launched a Facebook campaign to "Help our country celebrate its 140th birthday by making a wish for its future."Then the public broadcaster will "compile the most popular for Canada Day on July 1st. (Canada's birthday).What would...

created by Actual News Geezer | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Mark Klotz

CBC duped about Downtown Eastside homeless

Don't believe the CBC when they tell you that a performance at the Carnegie Centre had a cast of homeless people. See story at: Downtown Eastside Enquirer