• an increase CBC’s annual parliamentary allocation by $7 per Canadian by the end of this year
• development of a 7-year contract between Parliament and the CBC that sets expectations and guarantees funding indexed to inflation.

Click here to use your postal code to find your MP and contact information.

Find out what Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is saying.

At a noon-hour rally in Yellowknife on May 28, 100 people signed a petition in support of CBC in just one hour. MP Dennis Bevington is presenting the petition in the House of Commons.

Good news ... On May 15, CBC president Hubert Lacroix announced that the stations in Thompson, Manitoba, and La Ronge, Saskatchewan, would not be closed after all:
"After months of strict spending controls and cost-cutting measures, it looks like our year-end results will be slightly better (by a few million dollars) than anticipated. ... We have thus created a bit of flexibility. Our year-end results mean we have immediately decided to keep our CBC Radio presence in Thompson and La Ronge.  We are still looking at what else we can do to improve our picture."

Congratulations to everyone, especially those in Northern Manitoba and Northern Saskatchewan, who worked so hard to deliver the message that their local programming is important.

Let's keep up the pressure in other areas affected by the CBC cuts.

Supporters of CBC North Country rally in Thompson to keep their station open on May 1, 2009 - the station's 30th anniversary.

Background
As a result of a $171 million budget shortfall this year, CBC/Radio-Canada has decided to cut 800 jobs. Rallies, petitions and other events are taking place across the country to protest the cuts and to call for more public money for our public broadcaster.

Hundreds rally in Sudbury on April 5 at Tom Davies Square. Local MP Glenn Thibeault, Nickel Belt MP Claude Gravelle and Timmins James Bay MP Charlie Angus raised their voices in both protest and song

250 people rally against the cuts outside the CBC station in Sydney, NS, on April 8.

   CBC and Radio-Canada provide vital local, national and international information, as well as decent jobs, that Canadians need -- especially at a time like this. Private media outlets are shrinking and Canadians need to know what’s going on.
    The CBC has long been under-funded. A year ago, the parliamentary Heritage Committee recommended increasing CBC’s annual allocation by $7 per Canadian. That would add $230 million to CBC’s budget and allow it to continue to provide radio, TV and internet programming in both official languages, a Northern radio service in eight Aboriginal languages and an international service. CBC would also be able to begin to expand to communities where it doesn’t yet have a local presence.
    Public funding for CBC is among the lowest of any industrialized country in the world. CBC is getting only $34 per Canadian per year. The average for all the countries is $80.

• Details of the cuts to CBC (English) services
• Details of the cuts to Radio-Canada (French) Services

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The $7 solution
For the cost of three coffee + muffin deals, we could put our CBC on the road to health.

Links
I am, we are for quality...

Gander/Grand Falls-Windsor: www.supportcbc.ca

Thunder Bay:                   www.saveyourcbc.com

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Northern Ontario
Save CBC Saint John!                       Save CBC Thunder Bay!!!

A rally organized by SOS CBEF on May 9 in Windsor to save the Radio-Canada station that serves Southwestern Ontario.

Rally on April 17 in Yellowknife against the CBC cuts.

A Rally on March 30 in Winnipeg against the closure of the CBC station in Thompson, Manitoba.