Memorial honours exceptional faculty and staff at special ceremony
FRIENDS Steering Committee Chair, Dr. Noreen Golfman, receives honours from Memorial University for exceptional community service.
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Ars Technica: Internet metering does more to discourage Internet use than to ease network congestion
By Nate Anderson for Ars Technica Internet providers argue that they need to impose monthly data caps on their users in order to slay the “bandwidth hogs” running wild and…
Gazette: New OECD study shows Canadian Internet access rates slipping
By Jason Magder for the Montreal Gazette Canada has slipped in the world in its high-speed Internet penetration rate, a new study has found. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and…
Austin: The government needs to stop hiding behind the phone book
The following op-ed was written for The Globe And Mail by Lisa Austin, an advisor to the Stop Online Spying Coalition. The Coalition is a group of organizations that have…
Letter to Supporters: Do you realize that you made history this year?
Your participation in a reliable base of support is the crucial component we need to keep fighting for the open and affordable Internet. How often does government admit it’s wrong?…
Séries dramatiques – TVA veut réduire son contenu canadien
TVA asks the CRTC to reduce its Canadian content obligations.
Stop The Cap: Rogers’ wireless rhetoric contradicts itself
By Phillip Dampier for Stop The Cap Wireless operator (and cable company) Rogers Communications likes to spend big dollars pushing the message Canada is in the midst of a wireless…
CBC is not on a level playing field by Paul Gaffney
Former CBC employee says it’s in the best interests of taxpayers to allow the CBC a greater degree of confidentiality than we might normally extend to a “public” institution.
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting goes to the mat for CBC in awareness campaign by Chris Powell
Peter Mansbridge has been replaced by a tattooed, eye-patch wearing grappler, while flamboyantly dressed Radio 2 personalities now settle on-air disagreements with their fists in a new vision of the…
CBC actively preparing for budget cuts, says head of English Services by Marsha Lederman
Ottawa has made it known that cuts are coming in the next budget, and the CBC is preparing.
Globe: The Conservatives haven’t demonstrated a need for online spying bills
By John Ibbitson for the Globe and Mail Suppose you read an online article – not this one, hopefully – that makes you so angry you post a comment under…
CBC’s funding is inadequate by Tony Manera
Former CBC President says from 1985 to 2010, the CBC’s parliamentary appropriation went from $905 million to $1.018 million, a nominal increase of 12.5 per cent, but a real decrease…
Friends of CBC hire ‘Ass Man’ as actor by Kris Sims
Columnist says when selecting actors for their “Stop the CBC Smackdown” campaign, FRIENDS picked “Uncle D: The Canadian Ass Man.”
Moore shifts money from bureaucracy to the arts by Leslie MacKinnon
Columnist says Heritage Minister James Moore was non-commital when asked whether the CBC would continue to receive a supplementary $60 million earmarked purely for programming that has been renewed annually…
Two minutes of politics, November 30 by Brigitte Pellerin
Sun News reporter says FRIENDS’ “Stop the CBC Smackdown” campaign is remarkably uncouth and vulgar.
No decision yet on telecom spectrum rules and foreign ownership by Steven Chase and Rita Trichur
Columnist says Industry Minister Christian Paradis offered Canada’s telecom industry some guffaws but no clarity as to how Ottawa plans to loosen foreign investment rules in the sector.
Pro-CBC group goes to the mat against potential Tory cuts by Kim Mackrael
FRIENDS says that nobody can watch what’s going on on Parliament Hill without realizing there’s a threat to public broadcasting.
Release of CBC salary information Mansbridge’s prerogative: Moore
Columnist says the Broadcasting Act makes clear that there is nothing to compel the CBC to publicize the salaries of its employees.
Ottawa can’t compel CBC to disclose Mansbridge’s salary, minister says
James Moore says it’s up to CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge to tell Canadians his salary, but legislation prevents the government from doing so itself.
Heritage Minister talks CBC, Mansbridge salary by Susan Delacourt
James Moores says FRIENDS does a disservice to both the CBC and to everyday taxpayers with the way they approach the conversation of CBC funding.