23 Replies to “In Answer To The Perennial Canadian Question:”

  1. That’s only base pay. The real money to be made is when you your manager, who has no clue what you’ve been doing all day, agrees to you working overtime.

  2. Is it really a lot of money ?
    After all it is not cheap to live in T.O.
    Is not most of the problem the fact that they have way more staff than the private sector?

  3. Cha ching, let the good dollars roll. Tax dollars that is. Your tax dollars. In Canada. I kid you not.
    Now, given that we know about 113 of the 400+ members of the PPC are CBC, just how much money goes into the privilege of listening to these aarogant SOBs pontificate? And what about those few times{sarcasm} that parliament doesn’t sit and there is squat to report?
    Bravo to the long arm of the law that caught those poor misguided lads trying to farm in TO. I hope the truth will finally smack those fools that have had their head stuck in the sand or butt and wake them up.

  4. Breaker news from the Cabbage Town Imam’s Newsletter (translated from Arabic by natan)…
    “The resolution from the city’s Arts and Culture Roundtable calls on the City of Toronto to
    “proclaim” the building as a
    National Heritage Site and Monument to the Sacred
    Memory (blessed be he) of the Most Perfect
    Canadian Ever: Thomas (Not Dead Enough) Douglas, late of Hoose Gow,Sakat.
    Motion seconded by the late Bernard Ostry’s wifow who is donating Bernard’s Trudeau papers (slightly brown with age) to the Roundtable as a fund-raising AdScam….
    Carried. Latte/wine served courtesy Gigi.
    Gigi poured. ..
    The Chairman: Does anyone have anything else to bring up?

  5. Those salaries aren’t especially high. Sure, you can look at the top 2 bands, but the majority of jobs at the CBC aren’t Band 12/13.
    It really depends on the province. While 40-50k is a good salary in Manitoba, it’s not all that hot in southern Ontario.

  6. If you work at McDonalds this a lot of money.
    Personally I wouldn’t work for this kind of dough in Toronto…it’s really not that much when you consider parking a car there runs $200 a month and if you drive it you’ll pay the highest insurance in all of Canada. Cheap rent is $1500 a month and if you want to buy a house….$700,000 will get you a fixer-upper bungalow.
    Who wants to be accosted 20 times a day by drugged out panhandlers just to go to work at the CBC.
    Sheesh…get some perspective.

  7. Agreed it’s not huge salary, but then there is all the overtime and vacations.
    But why, I want to know, is the City of Torotno Council telling the fede5ral government what to do with a federal body?
    Don’t they have enough work to do?

  8. I think Ian is right. The salaries wouldn’t really be out of line if it didn’t take a dozen people to do the work that should be completed by one.

  9. I think of how much hard work I do in the environment I do it in and the few benefits/perks it carries… and think of how much those bloody zombieistic CBC minions make and get in benefits, etc… and I think something’s wrong.
    The CBC is paying far, far too much for negligible value. NO! WE are paying for it! Including ME, who makes a fraction of that. Makes me wonder where MY tax dollars are going, besides into communist/leftist propaganda.
    That T.O. group wants to boost CBC funding so they can work harder… to fool Canadians into believing that the Liberal Party of Canada deserves to sit in power again.
    I can predict what the fed Tories are going to tell those moonbats to go do with their demands… and I hope I’m right. Ouch! 😉

  10. Privatize the CBC and let the free market determine their wages by fairly determining the value of their service like every other business.
    It’s ridiculous that there are any taxpayer subsidized news services in existence. The state has no business being, even indirectly, in the media business. It’s not healthy in a democracy.

  11. The CBC should just be axed, totally. Get rid of it. It’s a waste of my money. It’s a Socialist rag.

  12. The money isn’t out of line. Especially for Toronto based people.
    Given the 113 in the PPG, remember this is for English and French radio and TV. So, it’s kind of like 4 CTVs. How many do they have?
    It gets screwier in Saskatchewan, for example. They have a mandate to provide French radio and TV services. It takes the same number of people to produce a half hour news program in French as it does in English. Never mind that the audience is rather small! They are still required to do it.
    Andy

  13. The wages aren’t very good, I’m pleased to see them paid that modestly.
    That being said, Canada does not require a state run broadcaster, this is not Cuba or North Korea. We are a democratic capitalist nation. Let’s sell the CBC to the highest bidder, and if anyone is worried about our national image, they can pay for advertising like everyone else.

  14. I think the big money is the expence accounts, perks, travel bonuses, the wining and dining and “gifts” given to media…they are sucked up to by every group you can think of…a power trip on the taxpayer’s tab.
    When I organized news conferences and CBC confirmed attendance we had to double the number of doughnuts and beverages. The private sector outlets would send one or two individuals; CBC would sometimes send 10 or more in both languages with several taxpayer funded vehicles and cars.
    What was usually worse is that the stories from CBC were screwed up for the most part and they all seemed to come with their own bised agenda no matter what the topic.
    If CBC was not a taxpayer funded entity we would have no reason to be concerned. If they did a good job for the country – ditto.
    Thee is nothing worse for democracy than a biased reporter with a personal narrow minded agenda. The fact that the producers and editors allow this or encourage this or even project their own biased agenda on a national public institution is severe cause for alarm- no matter what your leanings.
    For $1 billion per year we can do so much more for Canada’s culture and “national identity”. The CBC is definately NOT the medium to promote any kind of unity and in fact their based reporting and present Bush hating agenda I would think fuels the hate that breeds radicals like the current crop of young men training as terrorists.
    What can be done about CBC? The people and NOT CBC should have the say. A referendum? Where CBC is NOT allowed to broadcast ANYTHING about the topic so CBC cannot screw with public opinion like they do on everything else.??

  16. In case anyone doubts Lorraine’s point about the CBC’s bias.
    http://www.cbcwatch.ca/?q=node/view/1921
    “Radio-Canada “clearly disadvantaged Action démocratique du Québec” in its coverage during the April 2003 elections, concludes a committee in a report strongly critical of Radio-Canada coverage.”

  17. Band 7 / Research Analyst / $41,156.44 – $56,862.11
    Noting the lack of research that the CBC is famous for, is this not a complete waste of money?

  18. Liberal apologists out in full force…
    as usual making excuses for the CBC sponges
    Face the facts…
    any money we pay these clowns is too much…
    we get very little value for every single dollar dropped into that sinkhole

  19. “Research Analyst”?
    A lot of bloggers are therefore worth at least $41,156.44 – $56,862.11 per annum!
    What pay, therefore, is Kate worth? I think $80-$90,000, maybe…
    I’m hoping for $45-$50,000 myself… plus my own office with a view… and a Humvee… and a secretary who resembles Traci Lords…

  20. I for one have never figured out just how that 1 billion is used for the CBC. Besides CBC Radio, everything else has as much advertising as any independent broadcaster so where does it go? Does Mansbridge’s hairdresser cost that much.
    You know a PBS style of radio/TV would be a good fit for those wankers. Let them do fundraising drives and pledge weeks. Then the viewers can see what they get for their money.

  21. Why don’t they just forbid the CBC, as a govt. run public company, from reporting on anything to do with politics? It is a conflict of interest for them to be reporting on politics when they are being payed by the party that’s in power. They can still report on all other news in the country but must not mention politics (especialy election coverage) or their opinions of it. This would IMO fix a lot that’s wrong with the CBC.

  23. Has anyone else noticed that nobody at the CBC seems to work more than 38.75 hours a week? Besides when holidays come around, I don’t think I’ve ever worked so few hours in a week.

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