Billions spent on the CBC, hundreds of millions redirected by the CRTC. Is more federal funding for local news justified? The smartest thing the federal government could have done to answer pleas for subsidy from the nation’s newspaper publishers is nothing. The next smartest thing it could have done is what I suggested it do
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Finding Salvation In The Ashes of The Daily Newspaper Business
on August 24th, 2017
The CBC can be the link to broader success, if it goes ad-free and makes its news content freely available to other news platforms Sometime in the not-too-distant future, the nation’s largest media chain is expected to fail, taking many of the nation’s once proud but now emaciated major daily newspapers to the grave with
CRTC at A Crossroads
on June 11th, 2016
The CRTC will either have to start regulating streaming services or desist from regulating the broadcasting sector The regulation of Canada’s broadcasting sector by the CRTC is at a crossroads. Technological change, especially the proliferation of streaming video over the Internet, or so-called over-the-top (OTT) broadcasting, is seriously challenging the viability of the regulatory model
A Digital Infrastructure for the 21st Century
By Marc Garneau, MP for Westmount–Ville-Marie During and after World War II, Canadian politician CD Howe formulated a vision to transform Canada into a leading industrial power in the second half of the 20th century. He saw the future and began building Canada’s nuclear and aerospace industries, as well as the critical infrastructure needed to