So as I munched m morning cereal today I flicked on the TV and had a look at what was going on in the world. This being the weekend the US networks are even more political than usual, so I turned on the CTV and CBC 24 hr channels.
The best I can say about them is that if they were set in New Hampshire or Idaho they'd be decent second rate newscasts. And I don't actually know that they aren't set in New Hampshire or Idaho. There was virtually no Canadian news on either channel. Both channels featured US students protesting against guns, stories on Facebook and Trump's new military transgender ban, protests against a police shooting in California, and that the French cop who was shot by a terrorist in an attack the other day died.
CTV at least did, ten minutes into the broadcast, carry a 20 second story about Elizabeth May being arrested before going back to US news. The CBC didn't even do that. They were all US news until the 15 minute mark when hey broke for commercial with a teaser of the next upcoming story - about the NRA. We're paying for this
****!? Why does the CBC even exist? On any given show 80% of the news is American anyway. Even the human interest stories are almost always American.
By the way, in addition to May being arrested at a pipeline protest, the Tories held a marathon filibuster session of the House of Commons to protest not being able to interview that public servant who told the news media India was responsible for conspiring against Trudeau. And apparently a Canadian woman won the womens world figure skating championship for the first time in 45 years. I'm sure there were other Canadian stories that might be of interest to Canadians, too.
CTV is bad enough but we're paying taxes for CBC because it 'draws Canadians together' and informs us about each other. Only not so much.