Davriellelouna@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator to Canada@lemmy.ca · edit-21 year agoAlberta removes requirement for officials to publicly disclose receipts for expenses over $100www.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down10
arrow-up1139arrow-down1external-linkAlberta removes requirement for officials to publicly disclose receipts for expenses over $100www.cbc.caDavriellelouna@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator to Canada@lemmy.ca · edit-21 year agomessage-square17linkfedilink
minus-squarepatatas@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down2·1 year agoTo everyone grateful to the CBC for this reporting, as well as rightly concerned about US & corporate/billionaire ownership of our media oligopoly: please send a letter to our PM and tell him not to proceed with his plan to cut funding for the CBC.
minus-squareThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoHis plan to cut funding? You mean the plan to put $150mil into CBC?
minus-squarepatatas@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoYep that was indeed the election promise! But that was then, this is now, and despite that promise, Carney is instead looking to cut the CBC’s budget by $198m. Here it is in the Toronto Star: https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/suggest-your-own-spending-cuts-carney-government-tells-cbc-via-rail-and-other-crown-corporations/article_1bb3283e-a3a1-4a5d-bc6e-3405f7b37231.html Edit: archive version https://archive.is/At2nT
To everyone grateful to the CBC for this reporting, as well as rightly concerned about US & corporate/billionaire ownership of our media oligopoly:
please send a letter to our PM and tell him not to proceed with his plan to cut funding for the CBC.
His plan to cut funding? You mean the plan to put $150mil into CBC?
Yep that was indeed the election promise!
But that was then, this is now, and despite that promise, Carney is instead looking to cut the CBC’s budget by $198m.
Here it is in the Toronto Star: https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/suggest-your-own-spending-cuts-carney-government-tells-cbc-via-rail-and-other-crown-corporations/article_1bb3283e-a3a1-4a5d-bc6e-3405f7b37231.html
Edit: archive version https://archive.is/At2nT
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