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What is CBC/Radio-Canada’s role in the future of Quebec media?
Ample research has painted a bleak picture: the crisis facing the media world is exacerbating the decline of democracy.
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The truth about the CBC in Northern Canada
Around dinner time on the evening of May 10, 2024, communication services in the Yukon—internet, cell phone, and landline—wavered, guttered like a struck match, and …
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The Liberals have a mandate to improve CBC funding—here’s the case for it
One of the key issues the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Poilievre, went into Canada’s spring federal election campaign cut to the heart of Canadiana:…
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Quality, not just quantity, of news outlets matter—especially in rural Canada
Communities in Canada—particularly smaller communities—are starving for local news coverage.
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The promise of social planning: revisiting the CBC’s Citizens Forum
During the spring federal election, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre doubled down on claims that the CBC is out of touch—elitist, irrelevant, bloated. Whether or not…
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The case for a reimagined Radio Canada International
Imagine a service that anyone in the world can access for free. That not only provides accurate news about Canada but also world events and…
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Hennessy’s Index
“From its inception the CBC was intended to convey Canadian culture and to be an instrument of national unity. These objectives have been difficult to…
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Is the sun setting—or rising—on the CBC?
I was only a few years into my journalism career when the future began to visit the present. Newspapers were going through a hard time,…
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CCPA annual report 2024
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is Canada’s foremost progressive think tank. As an independent, non-profit research institute, we focus on issues of social,…
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