Debates over the role and future of the CBC are seemingly about as old as the CBC itself. Those debates have become increasingly fractious in recent years as some see the public broadcaster as essential to Canadian culture and to address concerns about misinformation, while other insist it is hopelessly biased, outdated, and a threat to marketplace competition. Tara Henley is a Canadian writer, journalist and podcaster who spent years at the CBC. Several years ago, she quit the CBC in very public fashion and has since developed an important presence online through her podcasts and Substack. She’s recently wrote an important piece on how to save the CBC and she joins the Law Bytes podcast this week to discuss.
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Show Notes:
Lean Out with Tara Henley, How to Save the CBC, February 8, 2025
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Ms Henley raises some interesting points in the linked show notes. In particular immediate action suggestion 2. I live about an hour outside of Ottawa (but still within what StatsCan considers to be the Ottawa CMA). One thing that I noted is that weekend news out of Ottawa on CBOT, the local CBC English station, is non-existent. In Ontario’s second largest city. The nations capital. When I moved here in the early 1990s there was some weekend news, but that has disappeared over the years. And the news that is presented is almost exclusively related to the City of Ottawa and occasionally Kingston. About the only time that anything that occurs in the rest of the over-the-air service area is mentioned is either a murder or something which directly affects those in the City of Ottawa.