Especially frustrating to the "locked out" strikers must be the reality that frankly so few miss them. Ouch. Being hurt in the pocket book is one thing, but being ignored, even rejected well, that's plain personal.

2:30am post!

Kate... you're getting as bad as the rest of us.

At least it's not moonbat conspiracy theories that keep me awake. Just plain old work.

AdScam Martin said he will not cross "picket lines". Another promise.
Will GiGi Jean cross the "picket lines"?>>>>

CBC pickets could delay swearing in of new GG
CTV.ca - 15 hours ago
OTTAWA — The lockout at the CBC could keep governor general-designate Michaelle Jean from getting the keys to her office. A spokeswoman with the Canadian Media Guild is not ruling out setting up picket lines ...
CBC lockout could disrupt GG ceremony Globe and Mail
Pickets may bar PM from GG's swearing-in Montreal Gazett

The major political leaders of this country have said they would not cross the CBC picket lines, even to open parliament or sware in the GG.

SO now it's official :

The CBC runs the country.

CBC is on strike ??

How do we know ??

The CBC's on strike ????

I work right next door to CBC's Sparks Street offices and studios in Ottawa. All of their "locked out" picket signs have the words "locked out" glued or taped over the originally printed signs that said, "on strike".

I've been reading the self-pitying claptrap on the locked-out CBCers blogs as part of my daily CBC Lockout watch posts, and can't believe that there isn't at least one employee who's willing to break ranks in cyberspace.

Reading CBC On The Line will make you laugh, groan, and cry all at once.

We are getting more good American movies. What more could one want? Chuckles Newman and his mirthful mediocrities?

Mark
Ottawa

Why the CBC mentality should stay gone: a post from
http://www.cbcontheline.ca/

"The 5 stages of lockout grief".

Keep weeping.

Mark
Ottawa

Anyone know how Hockey Night in Canada will work?
I really like the football games now with no Don Williams and chatter, just the stadium sounds.

Also, my favourite station, CBC2 is better too. Just music.

I'm a welder and a union member but I would have no problem crossing this line.

The server for SDA is in Florida, and I'm a few time zones west of that, so no, I wasn't up posting at 2:30 am.

The Canutopian Broadcorping Castration would never tell this news to the Canadian pubic: Kyoto RIP>>>

Tony Blair Pulls the Plug on Kyoto at Clinton Summit
Posted by EarthStomper
On 09/16/2005 7:17:20 AM PDT · 22 replies · 1,043+ views

TechCentralStation.com ^ | 09-16-05 | James Pinkerton
NEW YORK - Kyoto Treaty RIP. That's not the headline in any newspaper this morning emerging from the first day of the Clinton Global Initiative, but it could have been -- and should have been. Onstage with former president Bill Clinton at a midtown Manhattan hotel ballroom, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was going to speak with "brutal honesty" about Kyoto and global warming, and he did. And Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had some blunt talk, too. Blair, a longtime supporter of the Kyoto treaty, further prefaced his remarks by noting, "My thinking has changed in the...>>> more
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1485722/posts

CBC News: News from Germany: Today marks the end of Socialism in Deutschland. Today our future as a Canadian welfare statist country is in peril ... blah blah blah>>

The SeeBeeSea would pervert the following news into the previous dirge for Socialism's death in Germany: Never would CBC say "Margaret Thatcher". Where is Canadian politics?>>>>

Thatcher Again?
German politics are at a crucial crossroads.

By Patrick Basham and Marian L. Tupy

The only certainty about Sunday's German election is that it will likely bring to power the country's first female leader. Angela Merkel, a physicist-turned-politician, will replace Gerhard Schroeder as chancellor. Dubbed the "German Thatcher" as much for her scientific background and no-nonsense personality as for her reformist economic policies, Merkel's expected electoral achievement is unprecedented. >>>
National Review Online http://www.rapp.org/url/?3OQ7VKE5

Anybody know if a survey has ever been done about how many people listen or watch CBC? If it's less than one third of the population, given their billions in funding, it would be fiscally prudent to abolish it rather than continue to appease a minority, wouldn't it? Why should we pay for the crap they show? How many repeats of Anne of Green Gables can you watch? Rogers would probaly pick up the hockey.

Let's all hope they never return.

Iron Lady:

I think that CBC viewership it is somewhat less that 10% (I think that I have seen figures as low as 6%).

When this issue was first announced, I sent a letter to my MP stating that if CBC management was doing this thing as a cost-cutting measure then I supported them fully.

I went on to say that I couldn't remember the last time I watched anything on the CBC. At one point I thought that it had been the 7th game of the Calgary/Tampa SC final. Since then I remembered that I watched some CFL football (playoffs and Grey Cup), and maybe the Brier and Scott's curling finals. The underlying message, here is that if it weren't for sports coverage, I wouldn't watch CBC at all (and don't).

The sporting events will be covered...we don't need the CBC to do it, so let them go.

After seeing CBC news circle their wagons around the LPC during both the Murphy Tape incident and the minority vote situation, it is clear that CBC must completely get out of news coverage. They are propaganda agents for an an entirely regional and utterly corrupt government which has no mandate in the west, only contempt for it.

If you read the locked-out employee websites, you can see that they are all leftists. Not eighty percent of them -- all of them. Unbiased news coverage will always be impossible with this group in place. It's time to gently pry their mouths off the perma-teat, and give them the proverbial apple-and-a-roadmap.

If the schmalzy, mediocrity of the "Bare naked Ladies" is being held up as a scion of CBC Can-com for which I must pay billions a year to keep this bloated public funded media corpse running, then my suspicions are confirmed.

This is less a bulwark against neo-cons as it is a cozy make-work shelter for mediocre "arts" folk, marginally employable media industry types, radical axe grinders and utopian revisionist evangelists....you know.. the type that aren't talented enough, or too ideologically extreme or too politically "preachy" or too openly biased or "bitchy" to be employed in the private sector media/arts industry in the US or Canada.

The CBC has become unemployment insurance for the substandard entertainment industry and "art" freeloders. All they do is put a lib-left spin on their efforts and they can sell CBC brass unmarketable boring swill for bug bucks. If CBC was a vessel for the wonderful comedies and dramic series we see from PBS or BBC ( like Rome or upstair downstairs) I may have formed a different opinion but as it is now I feel ripped off when the money we pump into this CBC albatross produces nothing but an endless monotony of anti- conservative, anti- American bigotry disguised as substandard biased journalism and preachy boring entertainment.

CBC has become a welfare vessel for maudlin mediocrity and the endless loop tape that reminds us that the prime Canadian "Value" is we must detest all things American....it functions on the retarded sense of judgement that believes we will think Rick Mercer rambling on like this is actually funny.

There was an ad in the Toronto Globe and Mail yesterday which had a picture of Jian Ghomeshi, with the word "silenced" across his forehead. Readers were asked to call 1-613-992-4211, or email pm@pm.gc.ca to tell PMPM to "support the people who make your CBC work".

(Ahem) Got your dialing and typing fingers warmed up?

Oh, and right underneath Ghomeshi's picture, it says "They shut me up but they can't shut you up".

Exactly.

And Jian Ghomeshi is just sooo hip and sooo cute! Maybe if the lock-out (sadly) ends the Corpse could run him a a silent star. That would keep him shut up.

Mark
Ottawa

The existence of the CBC is a bellweather for what is wrong with Canada. Until we mature as a nation enough to free us from this toilet flush vortex of left-lib-green slanted noise, there is little hope.

As I've said elsewhere, sell it off as hardware and land only to discourage a potential media outlet incidently inheriting political contamination from CBC staff.

I worked at a fishing lodge in Nootka Sound (west coast of Vancouver Island) in August. One of our groups was the the general manager and news director of CHEK TV from Victoria. It was great - I had their ear for 3 days.

I talked with them about the CBC - they agreed with me about the political bias of the CBC "news". They were also p*$$ed at having to compete with an endless supply of public money to buy the rights to things like Olympic coverage.

By not having the blanket rights, they could only show something like 30 seconds of Olymic "news" at any one time, and could not repeat it for a number of hours. If a local athlete had won a gold medal, they could not cover it as news, they would have to use file footage from their own archives, not the CBC Olympic coverage that day. Not only that, but they could NEVER use that coverage in the future, say on the 10th aniversary of the event.

Also, when it fogged in so bad that we could not see the Nootka lighthouse, I asked him to remember this experience next time he does a story about how the Liberal government has taken away our fog horns from this coast.

Nice goig Jim. 73's TG

How would SeeBeeSee spin this report?
Please do not tell Willy Grahamm, MinDefCan, nor Pee Pettishegrewsomehair, nor Bruno, nor AdScam, the Candyman Martin. The Librano$$$$$ will hand out more free taxes to pay for this. Canadian soldiers killing Muslim terrorists...go, get 'em.The C. Parrish pump is as dry as a ...desert. >>>

JTF2 in combat in Afghanistan
Posted by SIRTRIS
On 09/16/2005 4:23:26 PM PDT · 2 replies · 22+ views

The Toronto Star ^ | Sep. 16, 2005. 04:18 PM | CANADIAN PRESS
JTF2 in combat in Afghanistan Secretive commando unit in high gear conducting counter-insurgency operations, officials confirm CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian special forces soldiers in southern Afghanistan have killed Taliban and Al Qaeda rebels over dozens of operations in recent months as they work secretly in small units, military sources say. The modest contingent of troops from Joint Task Force 2 is an integral part of coalition efforts to stem the tide of insurgency that has risen since campaigning began for Sunday's parliamentary elections. JTF2 commandos have joined counterparts from the United States and some British Commonwealth countries, such as...
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Relaxa, everybody: AdScam & Gigi are OK'd for the "Show" by SeeBeeSEa. No crossing pickety lines for them; saved by their pals in the SeeBeeSee:>>>

CBC won't cover Jean's swearing-in

By OLIVER MOORE

Friday, September 16, 2005 Updated at 7:54 PM EDT

Globe and Mail Update

Michäelle Jean will be sworn in as governor general without any news coverage from her former colleagues at the CBC.

Friday's decision by management at the broadcaster eliminates the chance a simmering labour dispute would escalate into confrontation.>>>>
nealenews

Dear (former?)CBC employee:
Like most employees in the world, whether the sun does or does not come up, is not affected by you.

Like most other employees, you have no impact on most Canadians lives. Sorry to break that to you.

Just like us taxpayers are ignored, you too must accept the leaders/management decisions, and put up with the flavour-of-the-day (spin) that those in charge dictate. We are used to that in Kanada.

What YOU may feel is relevant, doesn't matter; the master/servant relationship is there as long as YOU ARE!
Follow direction or your are OUT! I personnally don't wish you ill, because my beef IS NOT WITH YOU, THE GUY ON THE LINE! A worker doing as he/she is told. Only, my wishes, are not those of your handlers. Even though I pay.

Funny I have the same opinion of Parliament. Their issues are NOT my issues.

So forgive me if I don't care as much as you would like me too. Just like our MP's, when your product gets closer to what I would like to receive, I'll care. Really! Untill then, well you know...I can't see really careing much less.

Have a nice Canadian day.

How sad. I was hoping the Gigi, the new, GG wouldn't get sworn in, and poor "OLD Dithers" wouldn't have made it to Parliament. "Dithers" would have made it to cast the deciding vote to save the "Libranos". Bet On It!!

The National Post
Cherry learns he is in union

MONTREAL - Don Cherry, the outspoken commentator on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada, said he was unaware he was in the Canadian Media Guild until recently, when informed by a journalist. "I haven't heard from [the union] in 23 years," he said. "And you know how many times I've been on the brink of getting fired. Well, I've never once heard them say, 'You're the guy, we're gonna support you,' " said Mr. Cherry, who will not return to work if the CBC lockout of CMG employees continues past the scheduled Oct. 8 debut of Hockey Night. "I guess I just give them my money. I'm sure if I get fired, 5,000 of them will walk off the job for me." Mr. Cherry will not cross a picket line. His loyalties lie with his late father, who was a strong union man. "It just bugs me, that's all," he said. "I hear from them 23 years later, now that they're in trouble."

http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=9dc8d50f-cd22-416d-a33c-5eacc85b9936

WL Mackenzie Redux wrote:

"[The CBC] is less a bulwark against neo-cons as it is a cozy make-work shelter for mediocre "arts" folk, marginally employable media industry types, radical axe grinders and utopian revisionist evangelists...."

Related is the fact that so many of those hired by the CBC have obtained their positions through their personal connections with the people already employed at the Corporation. If one could only track and summarize the network of classmates, boy-friends, relatives, and people met at parties appearing on air at CBC across the country, one could appreciate the incestuous nature of the institution and understand more fully why, as Rene Levesque always said, it was like the Tower of Pisa, leaning only one way.

AdScam Martin Captain CSL, see the reference to CSL: Pinocchio Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Liar. Lapdog Reid (Pooper Scooper trained? Yes.) licks up the spilled beans for AdScam Martin.>>>>

2001 interview contradicts PM's picket-line claim
'It was an oversight'; Martin, Mansbridge discussed budget

ALLAN WOODS
CanWest News Service

September 17, 2005

CREDIT: JOE GIBBONS, CP
Locked-out CBC radio and television employees in St. John's, Nfld., block a TV truck from going atop Signal Hill.

Prime Minister Paul Martin conducted a 2001 telephone interview with CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge while 1,600 of the broadcaster's technicians were on strike, contradicting his claim Thursday that "I don't cross picket lines."

Martin spoke to Mansbridge when he was finance minister after the release of his Dec. 10, 2001 budget, even though the issue of politicians broaching picket lines set up to protest against the country's public broadcaster was clearly a sore spot. [...]
The prime minister's definitive statement Thursday in New York, he does not cross picket lines, has raised concerns the lockout of 5,500 CBC employees could leave several events in the nation's capital, particularly the installation of Michaelle Jean as governor-general on Sept. 27, in limbo.

The Canadian Media Guild said Thursday it has not ruled out setting up picket lines outside the Senate for the event. A newspaper report this week has suggested that Jean, a former CBC personality, would refuse to cross the picket line, raising the prospect Jean may not attend her own investiture.

The CBC said yesterday it would not be covering Jean's swearing-in ceremony because of the ongoing lockout.

The return of Parliament on Sept. 26 could also be interrupted because CBC employees are considering a demonstration near Parliament Hill that NDP leader Jack Layton and Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe have suggested they will not cross.

Yesterday PMO spokesperson Scott Reid repeated Martin's commitment to remain neutral in the CBC labour dispute.

"The example you cite was an oversight - one that will not be repeated."

Laurin concurred with the PMO assessment: "I think someone messed up."

However, the unearthing of Martin's 2001 breach brought back bad memories in union quarters that have had dealings with Martin's former shipping company, Canada Steamship Lines.

CSL has been accused of operating under foreign flags to take advantage of slack foreign labour regulations and to cut costs.>>> more
http://www.rapp.org/url/?RTQZBOMZ
Montreal Gazette

Surely nobody watches CBC anyway. Shut the whole show down and save us taxpayers some money.