CBC's Future

Many of you will remember my interest in seeing the CBC not only survive, but thrive in the Canadian media landscape. To that end, I'm posting a link that justinbeach alerted me to last weekend:

http://www.cbc-consultation.ca/welcome/

It's a site organized by the CRTC, the federal organization that regulates our radio, TV and certain other media activities to whatever extent possible, and seeing that the CBC is a Crown corporation, they've got to keep an eye on some of what's going on there too.

They're looking for commentary on any number of CBC-related questions, and so far it looks as if certain elements of the (New) Conservative Party commentary machine are well underway trying to get CBC privatized or ended. And as I said, I want CBC to keep on keeping on for a long, long time...

Waiting on the Weather as Summer 2011 Kicks Off

I've got friends in Wisconsin digging out from under bad weather that's got my friends in Chicago headed for basement shelters tonight as I type this.

And we're gonna get the same weather trouble that's hitting Chicago tonight...but we get to have to wait a day. From Toronto to Ottawa to Montreal.