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After Mansbridge, does the CBC have the courage to build a truly great news program?
Nick Fillmore | Content, not style and not personalities, should be the focus of a re-built post-Mansbridge National.
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Peter Mansbridge, CBC photo
Money talks, CBC bans journalists from making paid appearances
Dennis Gruending | Bowing to public criticism, the CBC has prohibited its on air journalists from making paid speeches and appearances before corporations, industry associations and lobby groups.
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Linden MacIntyre is right to link Mansbridge and Gzowski to the Ghomeshi scandal
Meghan Murphy | The CBC has a history of protecting their stars who are often egotistical, womanizing men.
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Screen Grab of Danielle Smith Comment on Rex Murphy
Revelation CAPP paid Mansbridge, defender of Murphy's speaking fees, brings controversy back to boil
David J. Climenhaga | It was mildly reassuring to discover that controversy could still be stoked in Alberta by the offering to reporters by Labour Minister Thomas Lukaszuk of rings of Polish sausage.
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Rex Murphy and David Climenhaga
Future bleak for Brent Rathgeber's CBC disclosure bill; less so for Rex Murphy's commentaries
David J. Climenhaga | Perhaps it's not to late for MP Brent Rathgeber to slip a clause into his private member's bill requiring the CBC to publish its freelance commentators' speaking fees!
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Peter Mansbridge's abandoned CBC mission
Rick Salutin | This would normally be a column I'd write at the time of Peter Mansbridge's retirement as CBC-TV's national news anchor, but I don't see any point in waiting since he's pretty much retired on-air.
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Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver
Never mind Northern Gateway, Keystone XL remains the pipeline propagandists' No. 1 objective
David J. Climenhaga | Temporary emphasis on the Northern Gateway pipeline does not indicate any diminishment in the commitment of the Conservative-corporate axis to see Canadian oil pumped south to Texas.
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CBC's new news is scaaary
Rick Salutin | Being shallow and exploitative isn't as easy as it looks at the U.S. cable networks on which CBC's news makeover is modelled. If it isn't your game, you really shouldn't play it.