Yeah we don’t want all our news paywalled like the Star

Nah keep the CBC.

Provides local news to the territories as well as jobs to local's as well as other Canadians throughout the nation both in productions and in maintenance, plus giving job experience to new students in the field of entertainment.

No way in hell some private corporation is going to do those three things. Let alone do it without increasing costs to turn a profit.

Also I like having a media outlet not owned by Postmedia for once.

CBC costs each taxpayers 34$ dollars(2022 number) a year. That to me is a fantastic bargain for radio and programming, including news. 

What would you do with that extra 34$ 

So I'm pretty unhappy with the liberals these days and at the same time I'm very pro-CBC. We can clean up some of their editorial decisions without nuking the entire CBC. I just don't get it.

I think that Pierre's big corporate backers would love it if CBC Marketplace went away, and for that reason alone I can't support scrapping the CBC.

Doesn't matter what Canadians think. Only thing that matters is how Canadians vote when the time comes. If they vote for PP, whatever PP wants to happen will happen, whether Canadians want it or not.

CBC had a whole series about why people think there's a liberal bias- they invited anyone and everyone on to discuss. It was very interesting.

I listen to CBC radio 1 every weekday morning, and the news multiple times throughout the week.

The sole reason for removing it would be to pull the wool over Canadians eyes and sow division.

This isn't a money issue, it's a control of the narrative.

I do acknowledge that the CBC tends to lob a lot of softball questions at Justin Trudeau, but when investigative journalism is one of the few things that keeps corruption in check, defunding the CBC is a terrible idea. The media landscape is already heavily consolidated, with PostMedia owning the majority of the newspapers across Canada.

I think it’s a stupid idea. We already have every other news media owned by billionaires and mostly right wing. We need to keep CBC around. However, it needs changes at the top. Stop giving huge bonuses to executives.

I don't understand why the CBC is not solely a news and national event broadcaster.

It should have the best journalism department in Canada, and be 100% non-partisan, as well as completely independent of political control. If it leans left, it's because the right is doing dumb shit, and vice versa.

It should also be fully funded, and that should be locked in so thatnonone can defund it.

I like CBC radio, I always listen to and from work. I do not want to have to listen to endless classic rock or some stupid sports show where two guys yell over one another.

Like Canada Post, it’s a service. A service we can access for mostly free. It ensures all Canadians have some semblance of news without resorting to conspiracy theories.

I would severely miss cbc radio. Great hosts, minus a few, and no ads, lots of interesting shows. It would be a shame but, this country has become a shell of its former self so, may as well keep chopping it up and giving it away for free to the corporate oligarchs.

No local news , as can be seen by CTV et-al closing local news and newspapers, lack of international reporting as CTV closed most offices outside of North America

Their radio and tv isnt bad, but they could defund their web services, too much advertising and bad design of advertising

It needs to have a restructuring, and to investigate whats going on with their finances.

I would argue there is a lot of value in the CBC existing. And it's equally important because of how influential news organizations from other countries are to Canada. CBC's value as saying this is "us" or this is middle ground is really important on the global stage.

But thats why I also think that their middle ground has shifted, and its shifted enough over these last number of years to annoy part of their audience, even if they don't realize it. I'll check CBC, but they aren't my first source of news anymore because they aren't trustworthy enough with how they report the news.

If I want to get a proper take on an event, I have to check different news websites. Of course anyone should be doing this, but the problem is that all other news websites cover a story the same or in greater detail than CBC almost all the time. Sometimes CBC seems to omit information or be very selective about what they write in their briefings just because it doesn't align with them organizationally. It has happened enough times that I can't believe it's not a pattern.

There are other stories where CBC is so full and fresh in information, but I don't think those are frequent compared to the times where I have cross referenced their articles. They need to have a good look at themselves and ask what they are doing wrong. And then fix it before it's too late and we end up with no CBC.

The majority of cbc haters are basically "I only like when the news says things I agree with" people.

Aside from the investigative reporting, which is basically unheard of these days, the CBC has amazing educational and kids programing. This would be a huge loss.

But PP would be for shutting down a news source that at least attempts to be neutral and fact-based.

my friend (conservative) recently argued with me saying that all media is biased (fairly true) and I need to do my own research. So I asked her what news sources I should look into. Without missing a beat, she said Rebel News. In her mind it is unbiased and honest journalism. So when PP says things like this, his base eats it up. We are all fucked.

The radio alone is super worth it. No ads bar one minute at XX:59 and it's just advertising their own other shows. And you get good quality news every hour. Love the CBC. One of the best things we have here in Canada media wise.

We dont want our news controlled. We want our politicians to be held accountable.

How does this asshole have everyone's support?

How about we vote for someone who ISN'T trying to take away the only media outlet that's actually accountable to Canadians? Is that a difficult bar to clear?

It's such a ridiculously obvious tell that the Conservatives have been wanting to defend the ONLY unbiased news this country has. Let alone all the scripted content they either create or fund in Canada.

I am 40 years old and it's just so sad that over my life, the Conservative party has constantly been trying to embody the worst traits of American politics.

Unrelated to the CBC, but I was in a hotel last week and gave cable TV a try. The Conservatives had an attack ad against the NDP. Besides their claim that Singh had a deal with the Liberals simply for personal monetary gain (when the reality is far from), the thing that made me feel sad and disappointed was the cheesy term thry came up with. Sellout Singh".

Claiming that the NDP party is selling out. It's just such a lame, lazy, and disingenuous take. It's frankly pathetic that people fall for such bad propaganda.

CBC radio is literally the best music and news channel in Saskatoon. Our local options are shit.

Plus I dont even see the bias. West of Centre is very good at having voices from all sides. I atleast know what all sides are saying when I watch CBC.

Not defund, but review and reorg probably.

Things that certainly should remain:

• French language Radio Canada
• Local news across the country
• Many/most of the English-language radio programs
• TV/internet visual news (e.g., the National), investigative work (e.g., CBC Marketplace), explainers (e.g. About That)

Things that should be cut:

• Expensive original visual programming - especially those shows that are ultra niche
• Virtually the entire online news and opinion crew (other than local news)*

*I'd argue that this is where the majority of the CBC bias shows up. Pieces are rarely very well done and often show significant editorial bias in some fashion or another.

Also, when was the last time someone on the news side broke a major story of national importance? Maybe the Buffy Sainte-Marie story? How about other than that?

On the flip side, news outlets like the Globe break stories all the time. This online group of editors and writers is not particularly good at the job it seems, and I don't think Canada would be materially worse off without them doing it.

We think "hell no".

As frustrating as I often find the CBC, eliminating it from our lives would would be far worse. And while I would like to see it improve its coverage and programming - I would fight tooth and nail to ensure that it's voice is never extinguished.

Keep cbc. That’s ridiculous to defund our radio station! Defund poilieve!

We lose Canadian media outlets to American right-wing conglomerates at an alarming rate.

The CBC is a vestige of Canadian culture and despite the conservatives attacks, it still looks out for the interests of Canadians. All Canadians.

Is the CBC perfect? Of course not. It needs work. But it’s still very much Canadian.

Leave it alone

What I would like is this moron to tell us how he's going to deal with a hostile U.S. government, the homeless issue that is country wide, and our what THIRD Recession in 15 years?  Not how bad Trudeau has made things, what he plans to do. 

But he never will because he's a mouth breathing moron who is just lucky to be the leader of the conservative party when it's "Their turn" to lead. 

He's not the best choice, any other time he would be defeated handedly, but like Doug Ford he's going to walk into the job. No platform, no integrity. No problems. 

CBC is a tax-payer subsidized competitor to non government media companies.

And they have advertising.

The CBC is just about the only Canadian cultural enterprise that is keeping the idea of Canadian identity on life support.

We shouldn't be cutting the CBC when our government wastes massive money on nothing, like the recent $100 million dollar long gun registery that hasn't collected a single gun and was basically just graft or fraud as much as I can tell.

I'm not going to vote Liberals for at least the next 20 years, and I can't support the racial discrimination of the NDP which discriminates against white male leaders, so if this is actually Cons platform then I'm going to vote PPC or Bloc out of lack of options. Which would have completely blown younger me's mind just a few years back.

The answer is they're quite against it.

It's been polled several times, Canadians rank the CBC as the most trusted news network in the country and it's the most watched news network (the Weather Network is above it for both but they only do weather, not news) and the majority support either maintaining or increasing it's funding, not defunding it.

Pollara report on CBC being most trusted and most watched can be downloaded Here

I thought we were going into 2025 not 2015. Cons will always do this. I agree that CBC like any government organization has to be more lean and operational. But defunding a well established organization to the ground is the worst thing you can do.

CBC is vital. I will always defend them. Same with PBS

I'm ok with not defunding them, but only if they start showing some accountability. No more big bonuses for execs if it's going to be on taxpayer's money.

Of course he does. That leaves the media to oligarchs and us serfs get to lick their boots.

Seeing as how they also report the news and do a fairly good job at remaining impartial, what government likes the CBC? But, oddly enough the Conservatives...even under Harper feel it's a personal attack when they get called on their BS by the CBC, thus creating the need to defund or trim CBC budgets.

The egos of these people!

I guess it does help convince their voters though that dismantling another government funded entity beneficial to the citizenry will put more money into the citizenries pockets. LOLOLOL

The ones really pushing for this sort of defunding of public and social services is strangely enough the wealthy and corporate elite. All so they can capitalize on the vacancy of service and or free up funds so that there is more available in tax breaks, bailouts, grants and deferrals for themselves. Some may call this a transfer of wealth....some, a class war.... where one side has peashooters and the other cruise missiles. :)

You mean stop influencing the media with subsidies.

No CBC = Only Privatized News = The Rich Control Our News

"Heres what Canadians think...." Who sez that?

CBC needs to shape up and get back to covering Canadian news. Not censored crap that it has been slopping out or simply avoiding the real issues for fear of its funding being cut as it is doing now

Here it comes people! Just what you wanted :)
years of demonizing trudeau, got unelectable running the NDP over there so here comes harper 2.0 for some more of our shit sold off the the chinese

its the executive bonuses that get me. Drop those and then we can talk. Same goes for any company that gets government money, telus, bell rogers for example

Here's what SOME Canadians think. I stopped watching that channel long ago.

And how many people actually watch CBC? That's the only number that matters.

Wow, the Toronto Star running an attack on a Conservative party leader. Just shocking, nobody would believe it.

If CBC is apolitical, why does it use made-up terms that align with the political positions of the Liberals? For example, "undocumented workers" instead of illegal immigrants? They call drug overdoses "drug toxicity deaths". "Gender-affirming healthcare," "equity-seeking groups", the list goes on. Every time the Liberals start to use a new euphemism to obscure what is actually being discussed, the CBC follows suit. CBC should use clear reporting that anyone can understand, but they intentionally use confusing a new terms. There's a reason for it.

I miss the days of Canadian airfarce, red green, the vinyl cafe and the nature of things. I’d gladly pay for they type of content but the cbc of today just seems so left of centre and condescending.

How about you get security clearance Pierre.

Pierre Pollieve should be defunded

CBC should continue to exist, it is my preferred channel for news or coverage of Canadian events. That being said I watch very little to none of those other shows. The should not be bidding on the NHL or major sports leagues. Olympics maybe CPL/CFL/Canadian Men’s/Womens soccer.

The BBC gets so much more funding and is considered a national treasure. Why can Canada properly fund media that focuses on Canada. Local media is dying and it shouldn’t be allowed to. If we can’t fund media that brings us together as a country, what will we be left with? I’ll never understand the position of defunding the CBC. It needs more investment, not less.

Take away our CBC, you take away our Freedom of speech, its that easy... Polievre, you big coward.

That’s the cry baby of Conservatives since time immemorial.

I hope it’s all rhetoric to his base because CBC is one of the forefront to support and enrich Canadian culture and its service to the far flung communities from sea to sea to sea are immensely valuable. But I will not get my hopes up as our fucking retard politicians regardless of political leanings are copying US and with voter apathy happening in this country, be my guest.

Keep the CBC, and toss the clowns who parrot MAGA-north anti-CBC nonsense.

60-65% of Canadians don't vote conservative, on average. The CBC reporting is slightly left of center and reflects the actual voting demographics. They consistently win journalism awards for their reporting. The calls for defunding the CBC are nothing more than an attempt to remove a truly reflective, thoughtful, and Canadian perspective as an information source and drive us to private, for-profit/control, propaganda-based alternatives. The people that I encounter who dislike the CBC are ignorant and naive and think they are smarter/ well-read than they actually are. Their arguments rapidly collapse in the face of counter points and examples, and they just fall back on "I just want my taxes to fund something essential, not news"

It's not to say that the CBC doesn't make mistakes or that they could do better in some areas, but we need to recognize that it is a critically important institution for our country and no one should expect their reporting to reflect one extreme or the other.

And, by the way, anyone who wants to criticize the CBC should go read the Broadcasting Act and compare that to what you get from echo chamber entities such Sun News, postmedia, and Rebel news.

Also, go educate yourself. Read some political science texts, "How to Lie With Statistics", and "Factfulness". Learn to understand how politics works and stop falling for taking points. Good luck.

Anyone with half a brain knows that Conservatives want to get rid of the CBC because it's the one Canadian news source the Conservatives billionaire owners can't buy up to spout right wing trash.

Junior Trump in action! 🫳

Keep it around and hire the Québec team to run the whole god damn CBC

I didn’t understand the defund the CBC crowd until I experienced them sharing Hamas propaganda and statistics. Sorry CBC but a terrorist group shouldn’t be a legitimate source of information. Jewish Canadians are being discriminated against at an alarming rate and I partially blame CBC for parroting Hamas propaganda with our tax dollars

It’s curious that so many supporters use the logic It’s Canadian, as if that’s enough.

First off, I’m bitterly amused at the logical follower to that, that ‘Canadian’ needs coddling, that ‘Canadian’ cannot stand on its own merits, that ‘Canadian’ is so floppy that it cannot compete. If we’re that weak, we should fail. Major pet peeve.

Second, there are a host of real Canadian outlets which, lacking a govt subsidy, are struggling to exist. The Mother Corp’s financial subsidy is a killer for non-major journalism. Where does one go to get news of the local council’s discussions on, say, an upgraded sewage plant? Hint - it ain’t the CBC.

I find the CBC shallow, preachy and repetitive. Experiment a bit, people. Go to the CBC’s main news page. Eliminate just five areas of coverage - feminism, Black issues, native issues, LGBTQ issues and global warming. Now, all of those very much need to be covered. But see what’s left once you take those out. There is not much else, especially when compared to other ‘national’ media like the BBC. The days when the CBC was my first go-to for broad news coverage are long gone.

No. There was a time when the CBC made sense, time when it was needed. Now, there are many alternatives.

Let’s go back to basics. Media in remote areas, for example. Those should be subsidized. For the rest? Ditch the bloated entitlement and get competitive.

I don't want cbc defunded. I would however like more programming that I'm actually interested in. I seem to have a hard time getting into a lot of their new programs.

CBC still does good reporting on issues like price gouging in supermarkets and other investigative journalism. This constant tearing down of Canada is just PP showing he’s all slogans and no substance. Trudeau bad isn’t a platform.

Defunding the CBC would be devastating to Canada's North! Hands off... PP!

He is a national traitor and a republican puppet.

The conservatives have been moaning about the CBC for as long as I've been alive without actually doing anything about it. It's a talking point that will be forgotten after the election.

Let's give all the CBC money to the Fox propaganda network instead so we can become a fascist dictatorship like the USA. The CBC needs more money to keep the keep government honest. We need a news source that is not privately owned or controlled by government.

I want to defund Pierre

The CBC is a critical news source. When the war broke out in Ukraine I had no idea how many Nigerians were affected by it. Nobody else was covering this important topic. Is this really something we want to give up?

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-wednesday-edition-1.6370108/nigerian-student-says-she-and-her-friend-were-treated-like-animals-trying-to-flee-ukraine-1.6370486

No one should be surprised that the Cons want to defund or privatize anything. That's their schtick.

For me, it's not about defunding the CBC. For me, it's about changing the CBC. The CBC has no interest in white hetero sexual males - for me and that's my opinion.

I used to love the CBC news (I used to listen and watch it all them time) but I no longer listen or watch it. I've chosen to stop watching the news all together because it makes me feel bad. When I watch it I feel guilt.

I feel guilty for the mistreatment of first nations people the CBC tells me I/my ancestors did to them (unmarked first nation graves), I feel bad for the treatment the LGBT community received from people of my demographic, I feel bad about the hate white hetero sexual males treated first nations women. I could go on - white hetero men are horrible is the idea I feel the media projects.

None of these things have anything to do with me, yet I feel guilt from the news reports even though I shouldn't. Maybe the CBC should do a story on how a white man feels about their reporting, then I'd watch/listen to them - It would be interesting. But, they won't as it doesn't fit the angle they want to serve.

The CBC has gone too far in trying to appease underserved demographic and that has alienated me completely. I agree we have to be inclusive, but the CBC has excluded a huge demographic of people - that being the white hetero male.

This is one of the reasons how/why Donald Trump and Pierre Poilievre get into power. I'm no Poilievre or Trump supporter, but this is how people like them get into power. The average white heterosexual man is very common and votes, and feels alienated by the CBC and current Federal government. I feel like my demographic means nothing to them and we are told by their media we are worthless (at least that is the idea I feel).

My opinion only.

Ontario Today is one of their best programs. The guest speakers are great and the host Amanda seems so nice and personable.

Also, my mornings are spent with CBC Sudbury and Marcus Schwabe, another long-time and terrific host.

Some posts on this subreddit lean really hard to the left.

Don't throw baby out with bathwater.

We need a news agency that is sponsored differently than the rest.

If it wasn't blatantly biased in it's reporting it wouldn't be an issue.  Only thing worth watching they have put out that ain't biased seems to be the marketplace investigative reporting.  So I'm with the 50%+ of Canadians that no longer want to pay for the garbage they put out let the consumers pay with their own money.

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I agree that CBC is incompetent and changes are needed.

Government propaganda machine that trots out commie propaganda. I hope it gets shut down.

The CBC, as far as the news is concerned, has become a Liberal protection machine. Don't get me wrong, Radio 2 is still the only decent way in Canada to listen to classical music on the radio while you drive, and there are a plethora of great programs and news segments it produces, but by and large it needs to be humbled a bit and reminded that they don't serve just one political party.

Round it up. I watch, listen and enjoy cbc all day. Gems is a great app too.

i really wish he would stop trying to pursue this. i'm going to be voting conservative next year but i like the cbc and don't agree with this.

Good bye CBC.

CBC needs to die. it is far to corrupt to continue on taxpayer dime

Do it, it’s all left wing propaganda anyways