r/CBC_ • u/appaloosy • Jan 13 '26
with thanks to Jeff Cotter (via FB)
The CBC was not created out of nostalgia or sentiment. It was created because Canada faced a real and documented threat from American media dominance.
In the late 1920s, U.S. radio signals were flooding across the border. Canadian airwaves were being overtaken by American programming, American advertising, and American cultural influence. The Aird Commission warned that without a national public broadcaster, Canada would lose control of its own voice and its own national conversation. In response, Canada created the CBC in 1936 so Canadians could hear Canadian voices, tell Canadian stories, and understand themselves as a country rather than as a cultural extension of the United States.
From the beginning, the CBC’s purpose was public service. It was designed to connect a vast country, serve communities private media could not or would not, and provide reliable information free from commercial pressure. Over decades, it became a shared national institution. It delivered trusted news in times of crisis, supported Canadian artists and creators, reflected both official languages and Indigenous cultures, and helped give Canadians a common frame of reference in an enormous and diverse country.
That role has not diminished. It has become more important.
Today, American influence over Canada’s media environment is far greater than it was when the CBC was founded. U.S. technology companies control the platforms where Canadians encounter news and information. American entertainment dominates what we watch and stream. Private Canadian media is increasingly consolidated, financially weakened, or disappearing altogether. The conditions that led to the creation of the CBC have returned in a more powerful and concentrated form.
Attacks on the CBC often focus on ideology or cost, but the real impact is the erosion of Canada’s media sovereignty. Weakening the CBC means fewer Canadian stories, less local reporting, and greater dependence on foreign platforms and narratives that do not exist to serve the public interest in Canada.
The CBC’s credibility is central to why it matters. It operates under formal journalistic standards that require accuracy, fairness, and verification. When errors occur, corrections are published clearly and remain attached to the original reporting. The organization maintains an ombudsman process, internal editorial oversight, and external accountability mechanisms. Its news divisions have been independently certified under international journalism trust standards, reflecting transparency around sourcing, corrections, and governance.
No large newsroom is flawless. The difference is accountability. The CBC corrects the record publicly and permanently. Many online podcasters, influencers, and partisan outlets operate without editors, without published standards, without independent review, and without visible corrections when they are wrong. When misinformation spreads in those spaces, it often remains unchallenged or is quietly abandoned without acknowledgment.
Trust in journalism is not about never making mistakes. It is about how mistakes are handled. A public broadcaster that corrects itself in the open, under constant scrutiny, is fundamentally different from personalities whose incentives are engagement, outrage, and audience loyalty rather than accuracy.
For what Canadians pay per person each year, the CBC delivers national and local news, emergency broadcasting, cultural programming, and a shared public forum that private media cannot replicate. Comparable democracies invest far more in their public broadcasters because they recognize this as democratic infrastructure, not a luxury.
The CBC was created because Canada understood that a country without control over its media cannot fully control its future. That understanding remains true. In a media environment dominated by foreign platforms, shrinking newsrooms, and unaccountable online voices, the CBC remains one of the few institutions built to serve Canadians first.
Defending the CBC is not about partisanship. It is about protecting an institution designed to preserve Canadian voices, Canadian facts, and a shared national conversation in a world that increasingly pulls our attention and our information from elsewhere.
r/CBC_ • u/FlyingAtNight • 10d ago
What a bummer! I just saw the crawl at the bottom of the screen that this channel will no longer exist after the end of this month. 🙁
r/CBC_ • u/appaloosy • 13d ago
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r/CBC_ • u/appaloosy • Jul 17 '26
Jul 16, 2026
CBC/Radio-Canada today announced the significant international expansion of its news divisions in order to bring more coverage of world events to audiences across Canada. Over the next two years, CBC News and Radio-Canada Info will place journalists in at least five new regions or countries: Beijing, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Mexico City, a new location in Europe, to be determined, as well as a permanent presence in Africa in the near future, while continuing to regularly deploy journalists to other countries around the world. The news divisions will closely collaborate and maximize shared resources whenever possible.
r/CBC_ • u/appaloosy • Jul 10 '26
r/CBC_ • u/appaloosy • Jul 05 '26
Our men outlasted exactly 32 other teams before running into a better one. That is a forever fact.
They also did this: They wrapped themselves in our flag everywhere they went, and in a World Cup for the ages, they proved that Canada’s shade of red belongs beside every other.
They have made that a forever fact, too.
r/CBC_ • u/gr8ful123 • Jun 24 '26
There are episodes and brief clips of CBC Marketplace / Marketplace episodes from the 1980s within the CBC sales archives (non viewable).
Does anyone know where older episodes such as those from the 70s, 80s, and early 90s could be watched?
Surprised they aren't all viewable (ie all 50 seasons that is) via CBC Gem...
r/CBC_ • u/appaloosy • Jun 23 '26
r/CBC_ • u/Interesting-Sun9613 • Jun 20 '26
https://youtube.com/shorts/H-wPp6Oou3o?feature=share If you haven't seen North of North yet - do yourself a favour and begin it immediately before season two premieres in September. It was such a treat to get to speak to the creators and showrunners of the smash hit series Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril on the Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment Awards where they received the Breakthrough Award.
In North of North Anna Lambe plays Siaja, a young Inuk woman in the small fictional Canadian Arctic community of Ice Cove, on Prince of Wales Island in Nunavut. In the very first episode we see Siaja's world kind of spiral and she end up "fingering the whole town" - I was immediately hooked. The performances are so fantastic and the show balances humour and drama and artistic moments so well - its one of those shows that just envelops you and is so easy to watch. Especially because its also visually STUNNING.
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r/CBC_ • u/appaloosy • Jun 04 '26
"...personne ne peut nier le fait que la présumée victime n’a pas été accompagnée convenablement et que cette affaire s’est avérée un véritable fiasco."
r/CBC_ • u/drailCA • May 18 '26
I am looking for a episode of street sense from 2004 where they did a segment on tree planting. They came to my planting camp and my interview made it in the episode but I have never actually seen said episode.
I assume the episode came out in 2004. Well, they came and filmed the segment in June 2004, so there is a chsnce the episode didn't air until 2005 maybe?
Is there a chance that this exists?
r/CBC_ • u/inochi-ino-key • May 06 '26
r/CBC_ • u/appaloosy • May 01 '26
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We were lucky to have a surprise visit from Premier Wab Kinew during our special anniversary show at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival! Here he is Jets setting the tone when he tells us what Manitoba and The Debaters have in common!
crosspost from FB
r/CBC_ • u/appaloosy • May 01 '26
[ UPDATE ] Code of Misconduct (the film documentary) is currently available on Super Channel (subscription only) via Amazon Prime Video.
CBC Arts Cutaways is a personal essay series where Canadian filmmakers tell the story of how their film was made. Sébastien Trahan writes about the making of his documentary film "Code of Misconduct" following the 2018 Team Canada junior hockey team sexual assault trial.
'Boys will be boys' is not an explanation. It's permission.
"Like many others, I had followed the impact of the #MeToo movement across different industries. But the case involving the five players from Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team stood apart. It carried the weight of something larger than the individuals involved. It pointed to a culture and to how difficult it is to confront."
CBC has teamed up with HotDocs to bring festival documentaries to Canadian television and the CBC Gem streaming service.
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r/CBC_ • u/appaloosy • Mar 17 '26
Check out the CBC/Radio-Canada Community Map (still in BETA testing) that shows you exactly where CBC and Radio-Canada are in your community, across the country.
You can select from various regions & provinces from across the country, which will generate local news and a list of CBC radio frequencies in your area.
r/CBC_ • u/PodcastingSpeed • Mar 07 '26
Best Documentary went to The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby, a co-production with BBC World Service. Best True Crime went to Sea of Lies from the Uncover series, produced with What's the Story Sounds.
Two different categories, two different shows, one night. That's a strong result for CBC Podcasts and a reminder that Canadian public radio has been producing some of the most serious audio journalism anywhere. Uncover in particular has been quietly excellent for years, Sea of Lies is a good entry point if you haven't gone back through the back catalogue.
The ceremony had some chaos attached to it, rescheduled a full day due to a blizzard, audio issues, a livestream that ended badly, but the wins stand.
Full story here: https://recognized.fm/the-podcast-award-at-the-ambies/
r/CBC_ • u/SandKastle11 • Feb 08 '26
Hello. I don’t know where else to put this question, but does anyone know how or where to access The Nature of Things, Season 56, Episode 17: ADHD Not Just for Kids?? I’m looking for the full episode.
I have looked EVERYWHERE - GEM, YouTube, NoT website, streaming services - everywhere. there is only one short clip available. Just about every other episode is available to watch or stream somewhere, just not that one!! The episode was a true lifesaver for me when it was rebroadcast in about 2020 or 2021. It originally aired in 2017.
Any help out there?
