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Rue, I was simply responding to the question posed in the OP. I am not a Trump supporter.
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Perhaps because we give the CBC too much money and as such our producers don't feel the need to actually work hard to produce hit shows.
Or maybe you're just cherry-picking a few examples of success, ignoring the fact that while there may be a few "hits" in the BBC schedule, a lot of stuff is still sub-standard.
Has any Canadian show produced by the private sector ever been as successful as Top Gear was?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv4opsn88iA
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31832534
I am sure there are people who can come up with massive lists right back to Pete and Dud. Two that were adapted in the US spring to mind - The Office and House of Cards. And then there is David Attenborough to consider...
The only Canadian show that I can recall from long ago in the British Isles was Beachcombers.
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And on minority viewpoints...the PBS documentary series Frontline has been highlighting the issue of false accusations in cases of child abuse for two decades now.
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Wolf Hall, Top Gear - public television succeeds in producing hit shows in other countries. Why not here?
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I guess it's all about national priorities in the end. Look what BBC Radio produces:
What a range.
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Well, here's an example from thousands of somebody JT could mention to the Chi-Coms. Canadian connection, too:
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The Turks are always more enthusiastic in their attacks on the Kurds than on ISIS. It's depressing to see the West betraying the Kurds yet again. I won't be moving to Kurdistan any time soon but I would trust these guys far more than Erdogan and his friends.
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You're right! And multiple on-line sources, some of which are uniquely Canadian, others which are offshoots of International media groups but still have Canadian reporters/sources (like Huffington Post.ca). So yeah, if you ignore all those Canadian sources, you have nobody to cover Canada.
How much original investigative reporting does HuffPo do across Canada?
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I must say I miss the old CBC Radio 2 of Jurgen Gothe and Co. It was my introduction to Canada and classical music. Whatever the presumably tiny ratings, its transformation was a loss to Canadian culture. So much for elitist nostalgia. These days, on the comedy and drama front, CBC really does need to move on. The BBC is streets ahead and I can't recall a TV series as good here as the Irish show Love/Hate, produced by their national broadcaster RTE.
On the issue of choosing what we want to see, there are costs to that too. I dip into NRO and Taki magazine to see very different perspectives to my own and am often pleasantly surprised by what I find.
Given global trends, the CBC is probably doomed. I, for one, will not be cheering.
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You're right! Nobody will ever cover Canadian issues without the CBC.
First of all, there is no guarantee that such viewpoints are actually worth being heard.
Secondly, as I pointed out, we have a wide range of sources, many which give different viewpoints along the political spectrum. There is little risk that less popular viewpoints won't have at least some outlet. (unless of course they're totally insane.)
Lastly, you may have heard of this thing called "the internet".
Aren't we on that Internet machine right now?
As journalists and reporters are culled, the news outlets will increasingly concentrate on the happenings of a few urban centres plus human interest shots from around the world. News stories from smaller Canadian towns will not be investigated and covered in the same way. In any news story I have been involved in, the only people who have interviewed me were CBC reporters.
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But they don't get taxpayer money, above and beyond what's available to all broadcasters.
I also don't really think it does contribute all that greatly.
Certainly a comedy problem doesn't ad greatly to the nation's fabric, not to mention "new reporting and analysis".
The nation lives online now. If we don't cover ourselves, who will? The US networks?
Commercial TV has its own agenda which is getting viewers for advertisers. Without a state broadcaster, less popular viewpoints will have a much harder time being heard.
I don't watch regular CBC that much myself beyond the news.
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I have been a news junky all my life. I don't notice the CBC being any more Canadian or of any higher quality than anyone else. In terms of local news, the local CTV outlet at least HAS a dedicated local news show, where the CBC does not.
I disagree. It may boil down to personal taste. I like all the regional stories covered by The National.
the fact that you might like what appears on CBC Radio or Newsworld does not mean that it is necessarily any better than what appears on other broadcasts, nor does it mean it "contributes considerably to Canada".
The detail, the content is what I am referring to e.g. Power And Politics. I just don't get the same level on CTV shows although maybe I'll take a look at Evan Solomon's show.
In my part of rural Canada, NL, there is no rival to CBC Radio or TV. The other stations have very little in-depth news coverage esp. on radio and their journalists don't ask interesting questions in interviews.
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Oh nonsense. Like we can't get the same stuff from Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan and Malaysia! Not to mention South Korea and India. There is plenty of cheaply made stuff out there if we want to import it.
South Korea cannot compete on price. India cannot compete on quality or range of goods.
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CBC Radio and CBC Newsworld contribute considerably to Canada. Look at what passes for news reporting and analysis on the other Canadian channnels - pitiful stuff. Anglophone Canada is in danger of being obliterated completely by US TV.
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Yeah because Justin Trudeau would have gone out and taken Bibeau down with his bare hands. NO! He would have talked to him and made him surrender with his advanced intellect.Security has to protect the PM, I'm sure he didn't have a say in where he went to go for safety during the attack.Is there a faction of people that would find this attempt at humour even remotely funny?
The criteria used here to define what constitutes an adequately argued OP will be forever beyond my understanding.
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Why not? What's the downside? How many Canadian jobs depend on China?
So we should ignore China's gross violations of human rights, its abuse of trade rights, its interminable spying on us and hacking of our computers and let it treat us like crap so they continue to allow their criminals to stash their illegal money in Vancouver condos?
I think we could fairly easily replace the crappy consumer goods we get from China, whereas they'd have a hard time replacing a customer who buys tens of billions of dollars from them every year.
I don't want to sound like a booster for China here. It IS a bit mystifying that we can't be tougher.
China's record on human rights is terrible but it won't listen to us, and no two countries have the same approach to human rights.
The consumer goods from China are not 'crappy' - they are amazingly inexpensive and of impressive quality for the price. No other country can compete with them. If we cut them out, we would see a significant increase in prices for consumer goods and serious disruption of our retail sector.
A full-on trade war, with generalised Chinese divestment from Canada, would have serious implications across our economy and potentially public order issues in BC. I don't see the BC govt or the oil sector welcoming that.
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There could be negative consequences for both parties. As to how they can hurt us, do we want a trade war? Are we ready for such unpleasantness? Ask the govts and realtors of BC and Ontario. How keen would we be to burst the property bubble now? It might be good in the long-term but there would be pain. They are a major economy and we are a minor one. Whatever happens with us is peripheral to their concerns. Any inconvenience we could cause them would be temporary while all the stuff we buy in Walmart could take a sudden hike in price. We have had a Faustian bargain going with the Chinese for decades - they've kept inflation low and we've sent them our jobs.It would? How? We have a $45 billion trade deficit with China. They buy a few billion in canola oil, agricultural and mining materials, and sell us manufactured goods which are responsible for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of jobs in China. How exactly can they hurt us compared what we can do to them?
This being Canada, I suspect we also have a fairly sketchy idea of how deeply they have compromised our govt computer systems and who works for them. A lot of mistakes have already been made.
We can get tougher with China - but quietly. The success of Trump suggests that we'll be fighting more of our own battles from now on with less backing from Uncle Sam.
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We are in a tough spot with the Chinese government. Any sudden deterioration of relations would hurt us a lot more than them. I would advise passive aggression - friendly public statements from the PM, steering clear of human rights as much as possible, but a cautious approach to any changes that would further increase their influence in our country. How many operatives do they already have here?
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I wish the TV channels would keep one just for Olympic track and field. I missed both 10k finals which would never have happened on Brit TV. By mistake, I ended up recording hours of Olympic golf, the penultimate abomination, despite Bell promising lots of other sports (although I would not count anything even I can do well, like golf, as a sport). The ultimate horror figured later - baseball (ugh) which figured in one TSN 'Olympic' spot I recorded. I hope I never have to see A-Rod crying again in the years left to me.
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I think the title should be 'In Memoriam'. Can it be corrected?
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Raitt and O'Toole are calming figures. Rempel is more strident. On her 'Power and Politics' appearances she was overly fond of starting sentences with 'I find it curious' accompanied by a sarcastic smirk. She may be the sort of woman who might rile some female voters. On the plus side, she's a good debater.
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India did until 2010. Apparently they both decided it wasn't such a good idea.
This was one of the cases that encouraged the change in Ireland:
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Aside from us and the Americans, who else grants citizenship to anyone born in the country, even to foreigners?
Ireland did until 2004:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland
Was/is Obama's policies re. Israel anti semitic
in The Rest of the World
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On a personal basis, you can see the relationship with David Axelrod is still strong. Obama has been very lucky or shrewd or both in his choice of political allies.