Radio-Canada/CBC -Rethought

[August1991]

In English-Canada, the CBC is clueless.

1. Some young urban Canadians need help.

2. Many rural Canadians need help.

Radio-Canada:

3. In Quebec, sorta works.

4. Outside Quebec, Radio-Canada is a life-line 

  

Edited December 24, 2023 by August1991
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[eyeball]

18 minutes ago, August1991 said:

Outside Quebec, Radio-Canada is a life-line

I still remember tuning in CBC radio miles away at sea at night after a days fishing on the west coast. Oh well, they took fishing away so they might as well take CBC away too.

One day Quebec will be all that's left of Canada.

[August1991]

1 hour ago, eyeball said:

I still remember tuning in CBC radio miles away at sea at night....

 

In your view, Trudeau Snr was correct.

We are a federal state with two official languages. But we have no official cultural.

[August1991]

Dunno.

CBC will never be the BBC.

But Radio-Canada extends among French-speaking people in Canada - even among francophones around the world.

[Michael Hardner]

5 hours ago, August1991 said:

Dunno.

CBC will never be the BBC.

August, in 1918 no one could imagine world peace. In 1989, no one could imagine the Soviet Union going away.

Imagination is important.

[Army Guy]

15 hours ago, August1991 said:

In your view, Trudeau Snr was correct.

We are a federal state with two official languages. But we have no official cultural.

Thats bullshit we have culture, it may not be as loud or proud as American culture but we do have a check in the culture block...We may have stolen most of it but we made it ours....we have the beaver, moose, hockey, broomball, maple syrup, pancakes, the loonie, twonie, under ground rail road, we have stood as a nation in both great wars, and every conflict after wards...we are warriors, some of the first peace keepers, the list goes on and on...we have our own culture...but it is slowly being destroyed to make us more diverse...

[August1991]

On 12/24/2023 at 7:31 PM, Army Guy said:

Thats bullshit we have culture, it may not be as loud or proud as American culture but we do have a check in the culture block...

 

Agreed. We the people of Canada live in a federal State - with two official federal languages.

But we have no official culture.

We Canadians live in a bilingual, multi-cultural, federal State.

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"Culture" is a personal affair.

Agreed, we Canadians have created a wondrous, uh, culture.   

Edited December 26, 2023 by August1991

[August1991]

And, Merry Christmas.

[August1991]

On 12/24/2023 at 1:30 AM, eyeball said:

I still remember tuning in CBC radio miles away at sea at night after a days fishing on the west coast.

...

We can do this now with our phones, by Internet.

[August1991]

From what I can gather, about 7500 people work for the CBC/Radio-Canada.

With a budget of $1.2 billion, that's about $160,000 per person, on average. 

[August1991]

On 12/24/2023 at 9:55 AM, Michael Hardner said:

August, in 1918 no one could imagine world peace. In 1989, no one could imagine the Soviet Union going away.

Imagination is important.

Disagree. In 1912, no one in the elite could imagine what was about to happen.

[Michael Hardner]

5 hours ago, August1991 said:

Disagree. In 1912, no one in the elite could imagine what was about to happen.

How is coming up with another example disagreeing with me?

Unless you're saying imagination is not important. And that would be strange coming from someone who posts the most imaginative material on here.

 

 

Edited December 28, 2023 by Michael Hardner

[eyeball]

12 hours ago, August1991 said:

We can do this now with our phones, by Internet.

They don't have the internet and smartphones in Quebec?

And you'd have to do it with a satellite connection offshore.  Presumably Quebec doesn't allow Anglais satellites to cross over their airspace. 

[August1991]

Michael,

We have to re-think the CBC

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Heck, we have to re-think government

In the past, we had to "create jobs"  - unemployment was a problem 

[August1991]

On 12/28/2023 at 1:20 PM, eyeball said:

They don't have the internet and smartphones in Quebec?

And you'd have to do it with a satellite connection offshore.  Presumably Quebec doesn't allow Anglais satellites to cross over their airspace. 

Quebec (and Canada) is a broad geography.

Some of us are different.

[Nefarious Banana]

On 12/25/2023 at 8:52 PM, August1991 said:

And, Merry Christmas.

Wrong!   Wrong!  Wrong!!!

Happy Holidays.  

Justin says so . . . 

[August1991]

I posted this elsewhere:

-The CBC/Radio-Canada receives about $1.2 billion each year from Canadian taxpayers and has some 8,000 people working.

-Montreal's STM has about 11,000 employees. In Zone A, it costs $3.75 to take the metro.

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All things considered, we metro users get more benefit than Radio-Canada.

[August1991]

Sorry. I would give everyone at CBC English a generous cash-out - except maybe the technical people and a few in local places.

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In English, no one - no one - watches CBC on TV.. Clueless.

The CBC is not BBC.

[eyeball]

38 minutes ago, August1991 said:

In English, no one - no one - watches CBC on TV.. Clueless.

The CBC is not BBC.

No one will watch the CBC in English because it'll only be in Quebec.

The CBC should not be the QBC. 

[August1991]

22 minutes ago, eyeball said:

No one will watch the CBC in English because it'll only be in Quebec.

The CBC should not be the QBC. 

In many places, maybe, -lower North Shore, for example- the English CBC should exist.

To me, Radio-Canada and CBC should provide language service....

Around the world., we Canadians send signals....

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Maybe we just let the Quebec government decide culture... Radio-Quebec.

[August1991]

I dislike Poilievre but I agree that we have to change.