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Feb 4	Fire half the managers, reduce top salaries: Everyone I've talked to who has worked at the CBC says there's twice as many managers as there needs to be so most of them do pretty much nothing all day. The top managers are way over paid. Fire half of them, that should free up money for new shows and more journalists.
Feb 4	makeing the CBC better: De-fund the CBC. Do it now!
Feb 4	De-fund the cbc.: We could go to the government and ask them to de-fund the cbc. Then it could be sold to a private company. The new private owners of the cbc could have huge expense accounts for George Stromboulopous if they choose. This may upset the shareholders though. The cbc could be so much better without ...

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Stand On Guard For CBC

Jan 31	Reimagine CBC web site launched: http://www.reimaginecbc.ca/ The CBC is under intense pressure. Good public media is good for our democracy and culture, and we all have a say in its future. So today, we are launching a new campaign to “Reimagine the CBC,” and make Canadian media better for all of us.
Nov 12	Majority Of Canadians Wants Funding Kept Intact: SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/11/10/cbc-funding-cuts-budget-poll-canadian-support_n_1087210.html?ref=email_share EXCERPT: OTTAWA – The Conservative government’s long-standing promise to keep the CBC’s federal funding stable appears to be in tune with public opinion. A Harris-Decima su...

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Planet CBC

Feb 3	The man inside the boy: Self portrait, autumn 1990 I got a scanner recently. It’s amazing it took this long. As a former photographer, you’d think I’d have had one ages ago. I like to think I was letting my thousands of analog images – slides and negatives – age, like wine or whiskey. Or cheese. Speaking of cheese – for...
Feb 3	Lemon Drop: An old chestnut from Gene Krupa to start the morning.

The Tea Makers

2010 Dec	Head out your ass?: What happened? Able to finally get your head out of your ass?
2010 Dec	Radio Music Producer, assigned to ‘Tonic’ – CAL00236: If you are interested in public broadcasting and strive to take pride in what you do, look no further. This is the place for you. The national public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada will give you the opportunity to work on projects you wouldn’t find anywhere else.The Canadian Broadcasting Cor...

Petroglyphs

Jan 16	Playwriting workshop exercise: I participated in a playwriting workshop lead by Gil Garratt on Sunday morning. It’s the first “workshop” event I’ve been to where the participants have actually had to work—hard! But it was worth it just for the creativity exercises, feedback and discussion; there’s good reason Garratt was cho...
Nov 29	#JianInLdnOnt: Come on Jian! Come on Jian! Poor Jianny G Sounds sad upon the radio 'Cause he isn't in Londontario Let your Frü flag fly Come along, who'd blame ya? Q's own, homegrown Now I must say more than ever (come on Jian!) A-E-O-L-I-A-N oh yeah This is it, just what you're after Come on Jian, oh I swe...

Inside the CBC

2011 Jan	Kirstine Stewart Formally Appointed as Boss of CBC English: Kirstine Stewart was formally appointed as the new executive vice-president for CBC English Services today. Stewart had been filling the role on an interim basis since the former vice-president, Richard Stursberg, was dismissed in August. A few minutes after the announcement Stewart sent this not...
2011 Jan	The Age of Persuasion – Now Available as a Podcast: The Age of Persuasion, a fascinating radio program about the black art of marketing, is finally available as a podcast. The show, which uses tons of TV and Radio clips from ad campaigns has been struggling to get the legal rights sorted out to podcast for, well, it seems like forever. The host...

The Tea Makers archive (Joe Clark)

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Worth the Fee to Read It

2009 Mar

A New CBC: In the interests of full disclosure, I am an ex-CBC employee (1992-1994). Victor Wong, over at The Phantom Observer, has, over the past few weeks, run a series of posts polling and asking for comment on the CBC and its future. For die-hard Friends of the CBC, of course, the answer is always and ...

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