“END THE MADNESS. Recall the committee. Defund the CBC.” Credit where it’s due to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives for writing for radio, as I was taught at a CBC skills course many years ago: short and sharp, three beats, implied subject-verb-object.
The Tories are mad for this gimmick: axe the tax, build the homes, bring it home, fix the budget, stop the crime. It’s addictive and direct and Trumpy, apt to “win the vote” for them, and thus presenting, among other things, a direct existential threat to the CBC. It’s a threat that, starting this month, Catherine Tait, the outgoing president, CEO, and poster-person for bloated bureaucracy, gets to pass on to her successor, Marie-Philippe Bouchard, who hasn’t ticked off anyone significant—yet.
I’m not even old and I listen to CBC radio daily.
It’s legitimately the best source of news around.
It doesn’t drone on like a 24 hour news cycle, the updates are time boxed so you get the most important facts first, and there are local stations across the country.
Everyday. Same. And it’s one of the few news sources left I trust not to scrape-n-paste their journalism.
Also CBC2 has Drive, Martin’s Room and After Dark. I’ve found so much good Canadian music I likely never would’ve heard anywhere else on the dial. Delete CBC and what little cancon we have left is toast.