Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Anja Karadeglija
Publication Date: January 12, 2025 - 09:36
With Conservatives promising to ‘defund,’ could the next election kill the CBC?
January 12, 2025
In late 2023, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said it was time for the federal government to redefine what the CBC does and how it does it.A year later – and with a federal election expected some time this spring – her office is promising the minister will unveil the planned changes to the public broadcaster’s mandate in “due course.” But with Parliamentary business on hold until late March due to prorogation, and opposition parties champing at the bit to trigger an election, getting any legislative changes to the CBC’s mandate passed may be a long shot.
Unpublished Newswire
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January 12, 2025 - 18:00 | Aedan Helmer | Ottawa Citizen
During John Hunkin’s six years as chief executive officer of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, he had many wins, such as buying the retail operations of Merrill Lynch, and one big loss: Enron Corp. The massive accounting fraud, the largest in U.S. history at the time, fooled many banks in Canada and the United States, but it ended up costing CIBC billions of dollars, and was probably the reason Mr. Hunkin retired in 2005 at age 60.As CEO of one of the Big Five Canadian banks, Mr. Hunkin was one of the most powerful people in the world of Canadian business and finance. Adding to his...
January 12, 2025 - 18:00 | Fred Langan | The Globe and Mail
An ostrich farm in B.C.'s West Kootenay has been ordered to cull its entire herd of 400 birds after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed the presence of avian flu there.
January 12, 2025 - 17:48 | | CBC News - Canada
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