Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Mar 14	Rebel without a Cause: Remember George and his two cause bracelets, one white, one red ? Along with his skull rings, and the black, weren’t those his trademark ? Is his work here done ? Is everyone already fed and safe with a roof over their head so he can lay those bracelets to sle...
Mar 12	Web Wars: The Unfair Advantage of the CBC: The CBC is very pleased with itself. It airs commercials declaring that CBC.CA is the number one web site in the country. But like the Gemini Awards, there’s not much of a contest going on. When CTV or Global/CanWest/Shaw sets up a web site, they have to compete with other sites for adverti...
Mar 12	More of The Hour’s self-indulgent tripe: Thinking J.D. Roberts is sniffing around for a job at the CBC, retirement villa for ex-Much Music staffers. He’s gone as far as he can in the U.S., and Mansbridge won’t last forever. (come back later for video of two adults talking down to a child, exactly the way they do to their aud...

Dec 6	CBC over night, and Radio 2: [EDITOR’S NOTE: My friend, Shirley Bradley, sent this letter to CBC Radio 1’s Early Edition re: the visit of Hubert Lacroix and the phone in on Thursday morning, December 3. Published here with her permission.] The callers to your program on Thursday morning (Dec 3) and eloquent visit...
Nov 16	globeandmail.com: Dear Canada: Your opinion on the CBC is ‘pathetic’: globeandmail.com: Dear Canada: Your opinion on the CBC is ‘pathetic’ EXCERPT: And there’s the rub - weeks after the new-format National was launched, the emphasis on the superficial is all too clear. I know that. You know that. But what do we know, really? We’re “p...
Oct 27	Gustavo Dudamel and his friends are in complete harmony - The Globe and Mail: Gustavo Dudamel and his friends are in complete harmony - The Globe and Mail In Canada, we give the Glenn Gould Prize to a man who embraces classical music for the good of society and the poor, while we support governments at all levels that are closing down orchestras, closing down music progra...

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...
2009 Mar	Post-Party Depression: Who amongst the political cognoscenti does not deplore the following: Falling rates of voter participation The economics of fund raising The rising number of potential candidates declining to run The falling quality of elected members, and The lack of “democracy” in our leader-c...

Nov 21	Not just a city in Ireland: O. Henry could write with finesse The Gift of the Magi’s his best; A poor couple trades gifts Irony in their thrifts: Sells his watch, then finds that she’s distressed.
2009 Aug	Kool-Aid, drinking the: At work, I’ve finally had a chance to apply some of the practices I’ve been reading about (and advocating) for months. Foremost among them are the related concepts of test-driven development, (proper) unit testing, dependency injection and the principle of least knowledge (aka the La...

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Type of community: Other Headquarters: Ottawa Ontario Canada Regional scope: Canada

Description: CBC is a crown corporation, so its voter community is all citizens of Canada.

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