@ottaross I heard the story on #CBCRadio, watched a #CBC video on YouTube about it, and now there's an article in #LaPresse. I find nothing in the #JournalDeMontréal so far, but maybe in the next week...
This Grauniad story forgets Kim Campbell, Canadian prime minister for 132 days in 1993, between when Brian Mulroney resigned because the entire country hated him and the election where the party was reduced from 156 seats to two.
@wdenton I heard on #CBCRadio that Ms. Sheinbaum is the first woman elected to lead a North American country — PM Campbell was chosen by her party but didn't win a mandate from the public. Possibly The Guardian heard such a claim, the muddled it.
"Menzies said the fundamental problem with the CBC is that it’s not so much a public broadcaster as it is a publicly funded commercial broadcaster that is competing with private news organizations for eyeballs and advertising dollars."
Here's my plan for the #CBC in the age of streaming. Keep #RadioCanada as is. Keep the news. #Telefilm becomes the home for funding new video; the #NFB produces videos in house and CBC TV becomes the distributer.
#CBCRadio as is; #RadioCanada as is; CBC News as is [0]; #CBC TV as a repertory broadcaster, more like #PBS; CBC Internet as a repository of Canadian taxpayer-subsidised videos.
No more direct competition with private networks for viewers and advertising; no more US game shows; no more CBC Sports; no quest to create a new hit show that also vaunts the Canadian identity.
[0] Maybe a few minutes on the hour every hour on CBC TV, similar to CBC Radio?
Informative interview on #CBCRadio about the Ottawa Bagelshop. They've made a good Montreal-style bagel for the past 40yrs, but I didn't know it was started and is still run by the family who ran Montreal's St. Viateur bagel at the time as well. Good pedigree!
Even six months after the ban, a large number of Canadians (approximately 33%) still say they use Meta’s flagship social media platforms Facebook or Instagram for access to Canadian political and current affairs information.
The Facebook Pages of national news outlets lost approximately 64% of their Facebook engagement following the end of news availability for Canadian users. Local news outlets lost approximately 85%. Almost half of all local news outlets stopped posting on Facebook entirely in the four months following the ban.
Engagement with politically relevant pages and groups has remained unchanged since the ban, suggesting politically-oriented users have not reduced their Facebook usage.
Members of politically-oriented Facebook Groups have circumvented the ban by posting screenshots of Canadian news articles. Although there are fewer screenshots of news post-ban than there were links to news articles pre-ban, the total engagement with news content in these Groups has remained consistent.
@remixtures Interesting. I get my main news from #CBCRadio, going to newspaper websites, and a paper copy of the Saturday @mtlgazette — but also Mastodon and Twitter to some degree. Using Facebook for news is foreign to me, but if I understand correctly it's the principal source of news for many Canadians.
The always-engaging science journalist #BobMcDonald on #CBC did a great job of describing the excitement and spectacle of experiencing an eclipse on #CBCRadio this morning. Suspect he may have convinced more than a few listeners to make an event of it tomorrow.
Something weird going on with #CBCradio this morning? Their over-the-air feed is dead air, and our favoured Montreal internet feed is playing Toronto's morning program.
I mean, they're normally obsessed with Toronto-centric content, but it's even more so this morning.
Seems like CBC in Alberta is having some difficulties this morning. Getting CBC Calgary in streaming on Radio One in Edmonton and while they’re on the air it sounds like they’re having a bunch of technical difficulties there too.
Edit: Sounds like it’s a country wide issue with CBC.
@StaceyCornelius Here in #Montréal, we've lost English-language #CBCradio broadcasts; over the Internet, we're receiving Toronto's Metro Morning — but they just commented about traffic in Montréal.
"[W]here is the value in CBC? It’s not in English television, but in CBC Radio and Radio-Canada. In an interview with writer-podcaster Paul Wells on Substack, Tait noted that CBC radio is ranked number one in 16 out of 22 markets. As for Radio Canada, it “very often is holding a 25-28 per cent market share. The CBC has a four or five per cent share. Global maybe five per cent, CTV maybe eight per cent, nine per cent.”"
I oppose abolishing #CBC English television per se. But I do think the CBC needs to be rethought: few people watch it, and it wasn't designed for the age of steaming video. #CBCRadio succeeds because it's distinct from commercial radio and we should find a way for their English television to be distinct as well.
One of my favourite CBC Radio hosts, and IMO one of CBC's best, Gill Deacon is suffering from long COVID. I knew that she'd been absent from her show but I didn't know that long COVID was the reason. After cheering for her recent recovery and returning to the airwaves after a fight with cancer, this was terrible news for me today. I hope Gill recovers fully but I also thank her for making her struggle public and raising awareness.
Kudos to #CBCRadio reporters who followed up on the #Ottawa city/airport announcement that they have to clear-cut the airport red pine forest after consultants told them it's dangerous to the public.
Turns out the consultants said no such thing. One said, clean it up and thin it. The other said they never even evaluated that forest.
Sad to hear about the imminent demise of the NRC time sIgnal on #CBCradio.
Rather than end it, they should solicit diverse Canadians, celebrities, authors etc to perform it, saying the preamble and voicing the 'beep' in a manner of their choosing.
Listening to #CBCRadio on the way home this evening, of course they led off with the situation in #Israel. The stories of the attack by Hamas were so horrible, I turned it off so that my (small) children wouldn't hear too many details. That was the radio; it's easy to find even worse videos and images.
The Palestinians as a group deserve plenty of sympathy. Hamas does not.
May peace and justice come to that troubled corner of the world.
Catching up on Hardeep Singh Nijar's murder by India. Apparently he had received cryptic warnings from CSIS days before the murder that he was in danger. If true, this tells me that the evidence that a foreig actor must be solid enough. CSIS don't just show up in people's life for no reason. The other side of the coin is that CSIS must have been following this guy to see if he truly was a terrorist in India as accused by India. Alas, we won't know any details from this.
@jfmezei I read an article in which Mr. Nijjar's son claims that CSIS had been talking with him weekly, and on #CBCRadio someone said he had talked with the RCMP about whether he should wear a bullet-proof vest. Clearly there's been a longstanding risk to the man.
As for PM Trudeau, I think he wanted to take advantage of the G20 meeting to discuss the case with PM Modi before making any public statement, which seems reasonable to me.
FFS STOP DOING UNNECESSARY STUFF THAT DAMAGES THE ENVIRONMENT. people!
Listening to #CBCRadio this afternoon, and the news at 6 preview states that there will be a #CBC Anchor reporting live from Hawaii. So...dude flew in a fossil fuel spewing airplane to Hawaii so he could personally report on the climate change disaster that is unfolding there. You couldn't feature a report from someone who is already on the ground there? Why? #WeAreFreakingDoomed#climatecrisis #Maui