'rabinovitch' Category

  • Aug
    12
    2007

    Search to replace Rabinovitch at CBC

    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 [...]

  • May
    30
    2007

    CBC President parody video taken down by House of Commons

    [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.]

 
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