Who can forget the “Big Society”? Just about everyone, it turns out. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Photo: Justin Trudeau/Flickr). “The Big Society,” cooked up by a senior aide to former British Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, was the ridiculous idea neoliberal governments could shuffle off their key responsibility for assuring
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Politics and its Discontents: Jesse Brown Was right: The CBC Did Cave
A week ago I wrote a post based on a report by Canadaland’s Jesse Brown asserting that pressure had been exerted by the Keilburger organization over a documentary from the CBC’s Doc Zone exploring the dark side of ‘voluntourism.’ Originally scheduled to air in March, it was pulled from the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: CBC: The Appeasement Continues*
Those who read my blog on a regular basis will know that I have felt disaffected from the CBC for some time. While I am a supporter of public broadcasting and believe in its adequate funding, the CBC’s futile policy of appeasing its Conservative overlords has eroded my respect for
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