From Inside the CBC:
Joseph Handley is the retired Premier of the Northwest Territories, a position he occupied from 2003 to 2007. Throughout his political career in the Northwest Territories, he held many positions, including Minister of Finance; Minister of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development; and Minister of Aboriginal and Intergovernmental Affairs and Housing. Prior to […]
From Inside CBC.com:
Late last week, the federal government appointed three new members to the CBC Board of Directors. Two of the three have strong ties to the Conservative party.
Opposition MPs claimed the appointments to the CBC Board were part of a larger strategy to fill vacancies on federal Boards in advance of a possible federal […]
Seems that one of CBC’s journalists, in a fit of “journalistic zeal” [note: not partisan activity], suggested questions to an MP in the run-up to a hearing. CBC, in responding to a Conservative party complaint, does the right (and effective thing), and pulls the mea culpa, mea maxima culpa move, with added reference to internal […]
Straight to Inside CBC for the news:
Montreal media lawyer Hubert Lacroix will replace Robert Rabinovitch as president and chief executive officer of CBC/Radio-Canada.
Lacroix does have a bit of broadcast experience, having worked for Radio-Canada as a commentator for basketball during the Olympic Games in 1984, 1988 and 1996. He was also a contributor to the […]
CBC journalist runs for parliament.
France Télévisions asks for more money.
Rome court to decide tomorrow on the Petroni case.
From The Globe and Mail:
The CBC is trying to fill some of the biggest jobs it has - including the one that now belongs to president and CEO Robert Rabinovitch. He’s due to step down later this year after eight controversial years.
The apparent front-runner to succeed him is Sylvain Lafrance, the current vice-president of French […]
[Via Boing-Boing] The Canadian House of Commons asked YouTube to take down a parody video of Robert Rabinovitch’s testimony to the House. Questions:
why can’t Canadian citizens get the rights to the video of their own representatives?
what on earth did Rabinovitch say that might have been worth parodying?
[Update: the answer to the second question is: nothing.]
No sooner do I complete my June paper (a 15,000 word research design for the thesis), than I find a new data point on perceptions of political independence by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
The first poll is by Ipsos-Reid, and asks
Thinking specifically about the CBC…which of the following two statements is closer to your […]
Measures of central bank independence have sometimes used the rate of turnover of Central Bank Governors as an indicator of de facto independence (which, it turns out, is reasonably strongly correlated with de jure independence). How does it work for PSBs? The following table gives the average time in post of a number of PSB […]
