CBC welfare cheque must end.

It's time to cut off the $1.1 billion annual welfare cheque to the biased state broadcaster CBC.


Acclaimed author Bruce Bawer has just written about "This Hour Could Have 10,000 Minutes: The Biases of the CBC" for FrontPage Magazine.

The only thing worse than having the biases of the mainstream media inflicted upon you on a daily basis is having to subsidize it. For Americans, to be sure, the rip-off isn't so terrible: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR, gets $430 million a year from the federal government, which comes to only a couple of bucks per household. In Britain, by contrast, the BBC license fee is now £145.50 ($226) annually per TV-owning family. And in Canada, the CBC receives more than $1.5 billion a year from the Canadian government, which amounts to upwards of $100 per household.



And what, exactly, are Canadian taxpayers paying for? That's the question asked - and very illuminatingly answered - by a new documentary, This Hour Could Have 10,000 Minutes: The Biases of the CBC, producedby James Cohen and Fred Litwin. (The title is a reference to "This Hour Has 22 Minutes," a long-running CBC series specializing in political satire.) Focusing on two main topics - anti-Israel bias and anti-conservative bias - the documentary consists almost entirely of CBC clips (most but not all of them from news programs) in which we can see these biases in action. To judge by this compilation, the CBC is perhaps even more slanted than the infamously partial BBC - and, perhaps, even more brazen about it.



Take the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the documentary we see excerpts from a CBC report on the second Gaza "Freedom Flotilla" that consists entirely of interviews with flotilla participants - all of whom represent it as a virtuous and innocuous aid mission and condemn Israel's actions against the previous flotilla as absolutely unjustified. At no point does the CBC provide even a brief reminder that there is, in fact, another side to the story. (As the documentary asks: "Is this reporting? Or stenography?")



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See how fast CBC gobbles tax dollars:
http://www.proudtobecanadian.ca/index/cbc/waste-o-meter/

We don't need CBC bias anymore.

Here are some reasons to sell the CBC:

1- The $1.1 Billion+ per year could better be spent on Health care or other programs. It could also be used to pay down our debt. We've seen what debt can do in Greece. People are losing their jobs and other important services. That's what debt does. The CBC is adding to our debt problems. Besides, CBC pays huge amounts of money to its executives and wines and dines them around the world at our expense. Other Canadian TV stations don't have that kind of cash flow to waste away.

2- The CBC doesn't just show Canadian content anymore. They have many American programs like Jeopardy. So what's the point?

3- All Canadians now have access to Satellite TV. So Every Canadian can now get any other Canadian TV station they so choose. Therefore CBC has outlived its original mandate. A private owner of CBC would have to run the business like any other Canadian TV station. The only difference is that they may not be able to have the big parties, big salaries and too many employees at our expense anymore. So what's so unfair about that?

4- CBC is clearly biased content favoring the liberal-minded viewpoint.

If you agree go to this website and vote to sell the CBC.


http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/sell-the-cbc.html

Think small, save BIG

Almost every country is in debt up to their eyeballs because their liberal-minded leaders all poured taxpayers money into big union jobs and benefits. When's the last time you heard of a serious public sector strike?
You won't here of one because the greedy masters keep feeding the other pigs at the trough.
Mark Steyn said it best, "Small, local and accountable government."
We need to bring the power base back to our local communities where we can keep a handle on the spending.

Giving Us The Gas

I bought 30 ltr. of gas at $1.31 per ltr. the other day. The $40. 00 receipt showed the following:

Excise tax---- $3.06
Road tax------- $4.49
HST ------------- $4.60

Total tax-------- $12.15 which includes a tax on tax.

If they can't pay off the national debt and buy everyone a new car, in one year, with these kind of profits, they don't deserve to govern the next year. Even a stupid woman like Oprah manages to pay her debts and buy her voters a new car.

The End of Catholic Education.

Fr. Alphonse de Valk, editor of Catholic Insight magazine, says that an April 15th memo from the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario (ACBO) is effectively a “green light” to start gay clubs in the Catholic schools.

And he's right.

Catholic education has been heading downhill for years thanks to the ICE and Canadian Conference of Bishop's decision to bow to the province and start a sex education program that would please liberal minded provincial governments, school boards and unions but destroy a parents right to educate their own children about sex at the appropriate time.

Thanks to that bad decision we now have radical gays and lesbians demanding 'equality' in sex education and, once again, our school boards and Catholic Bishops have opened the door for bullying of our Catholic faith.

The bottom line is that it finally spells the end of Catholic education without even a fight from those we entrust to safeguard our children.

What good are school boards anymore?

You can always tell when an institution or government ministry is making too much money. Actually, you don't have to guess because they all have their hands deep in the taxpayer's pockets.
You can also tell because you will rarely find any individuals willing to disagree with ' the program'. Programs like sex 'education' in the public and Catholic school system that has now expanded to include homosexuality indoctrination. You would think at least one person would care more about our next generation instead of their next fat paycheque.
But they're not alone. Included are parents who let them get away with it by ignoring their kids and what they're learning in school. Parents who trust our governments and institutions trust a fool.
The liberal-minded have been running our school boards for too long. It's long overdue to scrub school boards that only serve their provincial masters and give control of our schools back to the municipalities.

Smart Meters not too bright

Something interesting has happened.

Although not well publicised, a Supreme Court decision has exposed a weakness in McGuinty's Smart Meters.
Recently the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Calgary police had the right to collect details of any customers electricity use to determine if they were growing marijuana. They don't need a search warrant any more.
However, as one of the dissenting judges said, "it is an incremental but ominous step toward the erosion of the right to privacy." They continued to say that a reasonable person wouldn't expect details of electronic use which can detect when a person goes to bed, does chores, etc. to be handed over to another party.
The police had used a 'digital recording ammeter' (DRA) to get a detailed printout of power consumption in a home.
As it turns out a DRA is a smart meter, which has been installed on millions of homes in McGuinty's Ontario.
The Ontario privacy commissioner warned that 'privacy is the smart grid's sleeper issue' because they can reveal a lot about a person's lifestyle, from the time they turn their lights on in the morning until they turn them off at night.

As much as we want to get rid of the handful of marijuana growers, is it worth this invasion of our privacy? More importantly, what was the real motivation of the liberal government by installing these expensive 'smart meters'?
We surely didn't need them and they are clearly another invasion of our privacy.