A poll with the dream question of all polling dream questions….
Which reminds me – Dan Cook’s cartoon appears incomplete to me.
There, that’s better.
A poll with the dream question of all polling dream questions….
Which reminds me – Dan Cook’s cartoon appears incomplete to me.
There, that’s better.
WOW! Three responses that would equate to killing the CBC or reducing funding, and only one response advocating more funds. Something is fishy here…the regular lefty poll writer must be off sick.
Thank you for posting it!
No, that’s now lefty poll writers design things – split the “kill” vote, direct all the “save” votes in one bowl.
Really it should be a two option poll… (a) Cut all funding now or (b) cut all funding after coffee break.
Really it should be a two option poll… (a) Cut all funding now or (b) cut all funding after coffee break.
One less channel to flip through when the CBC goes – 2 if you count Newsworld. Me likey!
The poll results should be entered into Hansard.
Yet another poll gone horribly wrong.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If we scrap the CBC, where will we find our next Governor General?
That is what favourite lists are for on PVRs Matt. That way you don’t even wind up on CBC, CTV or Global accidentally.
And the CNEWS poll writer is only semi-literate at the best of times. Wrote one a few months back that there was no possible answer to amoung the possible responses.
Woohoo! 45% for scrap entirely.
I like the numbers so far. But I’ll bet dollars to donuts we’ll see the numbers start to even out when the CBC cubicle dwellers and union travelers get wind of this. They’ll wind up their anthills into a voting frenzy.
You should go over to the CBC website and look at the comments regarding the layoffs. You would think that the world is coming to an end and Canada will certainly disintegrate as a result of these layoffs. Boy these people are delusional in their self-importance. What clowns. They are like rats in a sinking ship.
You have to ask yourself how this outfit can employ +9000 people. I would be curious to know how many staff PBS in the USA employ. I detest the CBC for their left wing bias and would vote in a heart beat to do away with it. Never watch it like 93% of other Canadians.
And another poll going horribly wrong, this one at the Glib and Pale:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
74% in favour of getting rid of the current two-for-one pre-served jail time deal.
lol Black Mamba – very good question! They might have to trawl the HRC’s
70 people are too stupid to have an opinion either way and want everyone to know about it…..
I honked, Whoo Hoo’d and waved goodbye to the smokers outside CBC HQ yesterday, as I rolled by on my way to work.
I’m happy to report the terrorist scarf wearing socialist lovin smokers and slackers outside seemed glum overall.
Is this poll scientifically valid? Would the elimination of the CBC be vote-positive or vote-neutral in English Canada? If so I hope our esteemed PMSH will tell Canadians that if they want the CBC as an ongoing subsidized semi-pro media, entertainment and propaganda outlet, those who want it will have to pay for it by subscription. Nah nah nah nah,nah nah nah nah, hey hey good bye!
PBS appears to do just fine….
http://www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/aboutpbs_corp.html
If we scrap the CBC, where will we find our next Governor General?
Going to an online phone directory and typing in a name, any name, would get just as qualified candidates.
Agent Smith: Yes – Jennifer Lynch for GG! (What, you don’t like?)
This poll will swing the other way by the end of the day once the CBC employees find out about it. It’s easy for them to vote as a group because they all have cbc.ca email addresses. With half an hour all 9000 employees will know about the pole. And if they send email to their pals at CUPE,OPSEU, NDP, and the Liberal party they will flood the poll.
Remember “There is no truth in Pravda”.
Actually Kate, last time I remember a “poll” that had lots of options, i.e. would give good feed back on how people really felt, it was the CWB referendum.
If a lefty had wrote this, it would have been:
Q: Should the CBC have funding cut?
a) No, leave funding as is
b) The CBC needs more money
c) Stephen Harper needs to quit trying to ruin the country
d) Climate crisis
e) All of the above
Black Mamba – my vote would have been for Barbara Hall – she has much more, ahem ‘presence’…?
The CBC serves one purpose… to protect Canadian content. God save us from the USA! LOL 😉
Okay, re. the Gov. G. thing, so this is a little out there, but… our buddy Warren “sCatman” Kinsella, a Liberal suck, not overly employed, craves attention…
Could we start a petition?
RE: Cutbacks. It’s payback time. I believe their constant criticism of the Harper gov’t, was their number one “bad move.”
You bite the hand that feeds you–you go hungry.
Example: I recall the first few weeks that the Sposnorship Scandal broke out. CBC’s reporters were within a stone’s throw, just down the hallway or across the street from where the crimes were planned or took place. Yet the CBC was ingnoring facts to protect Chretien, Martin and the Liberals.
Imagine the story they could have produced had they put as much energy in Sponsorgate as they did in trying to blackball Brian Mulroney in the Karlheinz Schreiber fiasco. The CBC’s “Fifth Estate” went as far as sending a crew to Switzerland and Germany to try and nail Mulroney. Yet they wouldn’t send the same crew across the street to tell us what breally happened in “Sponsorgate.” (AKA: Liberalgate.)
No synmpathy from this cowboy!!
RE: Cutbacks. It’s payback time. I believe their constant criticism of the Harper gov’t, was their number one “bad move.”
You bite the hand that feeds you–you go hungry.
Example: I recall the first few weeks that the Sposnorship Scandal broke out. CBC’s reporters were within a stone’s throw, just down the hallway or across the street from where the crimes were planned or took place. Yet the CBC was ingnoring facts to protect Chretien, Martin and the Liberals.
Imagine the story they could have produced had they put as much energy in Sponsorgate as they did in trying to blackball Brian Mulroney in the Karlheinz Schreiber fiasco. The CBC’s “Fifth Estate” went as far as sending a crew to Switzerland and Germany to try and nail Mulroney. Yet they wouldn’t send the same crew across the street to tell us what breally happened in “Sponsorgate.” (AKA: Liberalgate.)
No sympathy from this cowboy!!
RE: Cutbacks. It’s payback time. I believe their constant criticism of the Harper gov’t, was their number one “bad move.”
You bite the hand that feeds you–you go hungry.
Example: I recall the first few weeks that the Sposnorship Scandal broke out. CBC’s reporters were within a stone’s throw, just down the hallway or across the street from where the crimes were planned or took place. Yet the CBC was ingnoring facts to protect Chretien, Martin and the Liberals.
Imagine the story they could have produced had they put as much energy in Sponsorgate as they did in trying to blackball Brian Mulroney in the Karlheinz Schreiber fiasco. The CBC’s “Fifth Estate” went as far as sending a crew to Switzerland and Germany to try and nail Mulroney. Yet they wouldn’t send the same crew across the street to tell us what breally happened in “Sponsorgate.” (AKA: Liberalgate.)
No sympathy from this cowboy!!
“Are cuts at the CBC needed?”
Are the Kennedys gun-shy?
10,000 employees!! Ekk! What do they all do for heavens sake!
Cuts are essential.
Use the new Access to Information rules to ask the CBC the costs of Fifth Estate. Easy to make a request. Do it NOW!
“If we scrap the CBC, where will we find our next Governor General?”
I’ll do it. I wonder what kind of reaction we would get from the liberanos with a trucker as the GG?
I was most disappointed there was no “Oh HELL yes!” choice for cutting the CBC.
I haven’t had as much fun at an on-line pole since Ryerson.
btw, Isn’t Newsworld American owned? I seem to recall that they farmed off the losing channel for G*d knows what.
Two-for one — I was surprised to see that this existed. Presumably the argument is that in temporary custody they don’t have proper access to things like rehabilitation programs. Wouldn’t you think that would be a good reason to keep them in a regular facility longer . . . so they could be rehabilitated? Guess that did not occur to whatever policy maker dreamed up “two for one”.
Fred Langan for GG
YAWN………CBC isn’t going anywhere. Deal with it. CBC has the best national news coverage in the country. The CBC’s international coverage is also better than anyone else. That includes Amercian stations and the BBC.
If I we’re you I would stop complaining (yes i know you’re all conservatives from Saskatchewan, if you didn’t complain you would never speak) and enjoy the hours of great programming on CBC televison, CBC Radio and CBC.ca.
“technoviking” is correct. The cartoonist for that G-M cartoon is Brian Gable from Saskatoon.
But, techno is being sarcastic. techno hails from the Jaw.
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The rats are fleeing the sinking ship, Kafiya’s and all..but they still manage to take shots at the Conservatives.As seen in last night’s National, the reporter basically stated that while there are many issues involved with the recession and lack of advertising dollars from sponsors etc, it was still the Conservative’s fault in the first place.
Boo Hoo.
All of you reading this post from the CBC, just remember that your terrorist scarf will come in handy as an apron in your next career as dish washer.
51% say the CBC should be scrapped with a further 24% that say the cuts are necessary.
Only 8% (about as many people who watch or listen to the CBC) think the CBC should get more money.
Hey Techno..i was born in Lefty central, Toronto Ontario Canada..i loathe the CBC.I must have fallen through the cracks.
The CBC is a taxpayer funded network in Canada, that speaks to only one side of the equation.Their world view is left of center with a palpable disdain for conservative thought.
Only Pravdacorp could take a rather uplifting and supportive story of Stephen Harper on the world stage and turn it into an attack on the Conservatives.
I refuse to pay into a scheme that does not allow my voice to be heard.CBC telling our stories? More like them telling US what their version of our story should be.Besides, do we need to spend a billion plus dollars every year to hear what someone in Rainy River is doing, or Moosejaw, or Cornerbrook? If all these stories disappeared tomorrow, i could care less.
Auntie Paisley holding a quilting bee in Oro Ontario? Who the f*ck cares at a billion plus a year? Really?
My Question: Where was the outcry a few years ago when Jean Chretien’s Liberals cut CBC’s budget by 425 million and they laid off 4,000 employees.?
Because it was Liberals did the CBC just roll over and say yes sir, when do I get my senate seat sir?
And now that the Conservatives have increased funding to the CBC to historic levels of 1.1 billion and CBC is still living beyond it’s means there is an outcry?
Is this country truly backwards?
Never waste a good crisis. Scuttle them.
“If I we’re you I would stop complaining and enjoy the hours of great programming on CBC televison, CBC Radio and CBC.ca.”
For as long as I can remember, CBC has never offered me anything remotely interesting or entertaining. I deliberately go out of my way to avoid all of their news coverage. So why should I be forced to pay for it?
Let them survive on advertising revenues and private donations. If that many people really valued their products and what they have to offer, the CBC should have no problem surviving.
Why did our far-left wing Heritage minister just say on CBC that he would allow the far-left, bias CBC keep funds resulting from asset sales, while in the same sentence saying that his responsibility was to the taxpayers.
These two statements are completely contradictory. If the left-plunging Harper government was concerned about the tax payers they would immediately announce the complete closure of this extremely left promoting institute, and return the funds to taxpayers in the name of tax cuts.
Rather than annually increasing funding for the far-left bias CBC a legitimate small-c fiscal, social, and/or judicial conservative Canadian Prime Minister would immediate eradicate this left bias, bimbo-driven English and French embarrassment called the Comrade Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). If not abolished, this far-left bias corporation should join the pay-for-view society thereby allowing the extreme left to continue watching/listening to the CBC’s fanatical, radical left-bias debris.
Canadians voted for what we thought was the above mention conservative PM however, surprise, surprise, we currently have a left-plunging fiscal liberal who is inflicting us with a structural, long term, deficit which is generational thief.
In an age of numerous Canadian television and radio networks, satellite networks, and of course the internet, there is no longer any requisite for a government-owned, and tax payers paid for, TV and/or radio network; especially one ran by left-wing affirmative action bimbos and watched/ listened to mostly by the far-left, but paid for my people who actually work for a living and pay taxes.
Selling, or re-structuring the CBC into pay for view channels plus other crown corporations, abolishing lower priority programs, laying off bureaucrats, freezing government employees’ wages, decreasing by one-third the total immigration and refugee intakes, and selling other assets would create a substantial fund that could then be used to permanently cut the payroll tax. Since this tax cut would immediately show up in your salary, it would efficiently stimulate the economy more rapidly than any non-ready infrastructure projects or many of the other long-term deficit creating programs. Many of the suggested programs in the current budget include a lot of non-stimulating, long-term, structural deficit spending which is generational theft.
Just voted – results to date 51% for scrapped, 6% no money, and 25% cuts. Where are the Friends of CBC? CBC should have fought hard in the 90’s against specialty channels. We now get the smorgasbord of options that fit a person’s tv choices. I remember when people scoffed at the Food Channel and Animal Planet. Well guess what, people like what they like and there is no going back. The appetite for CBC has declined. Deal with it. Make the cuts and rethink the menu.
I knew the CBC was long past its best before date when they started airing THe Kids in the Hall. That alone should have earned them the axe.
“Our objective throughout this very difficult exercise has been to protect … our most valuable resource, the CBC employees who provide [the CEEB’s services],” a CBC hack said.
“That being said, we recognize that the reality is that we will provide less to Canadians.”
‘Difficult to provide less when you don’t provide much that Canadians want in the first place.
The Canadian Bloviating Corporation is cutting back the number of episodes of “Little House on the Prairie.” GIVE ME A BREAK. That appallingly, stupefyingly dreadful show should be cut off altogether.
The clue as to why there are over 9,000 employees at the CBC?
The CEEB’s workers are its “most valuable resource.” Who would have known? It exists, by the sounds of it, to give almost 10,000 friends, family members, and leftard hangers-on employment not, as the CBC mandate alleges, to give balanced coverage of issues of importance to all Canadians.
IT’S. GOTTA. GO.
technoviking…explores the world thru his ‘puter.
Get out of mom’s basement much buddy?
There is more to Canada than Trawnna, everything out side the city is not Saskatchewan.
But you wouldn’t know that from your small world.
And especially if CBC is your news source.
Moore had a chance in HoC today to remind the panicky overemotional members of the Opposition about those cuts by the Libs a few years back.
Hmmm…I actually heard that on CBC radio on my drive to work.
Are they pulling up their sox finally?
Too bad all CBC journos are not like like Marcus Shwabi in Sudbury. His CBC Morning North show is worth listening to, and during any election he shows no bias.