From a Angus Reid:

Culture, the CBC & the CRTC: both institutions get good marks, but future relevance seen as a challenge
From Dallas to Downton Abbey, our national sense of culture and identity has long and repeatedly been exposed to outside exposure and influence. In spite of this, most consider Canadian culture to be unique, worthy of, and, critically in need of protection to survive.

Those views go some way to explaining why Canadians also hold generally favourable views towards two major Canadian cultural institutions: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Continue reading.

From Jim Bawden:

Many Canadian Cable Channels Could Disappear
For years I’ve been trying to find someone else who watched the lowly Cable channel Outdoor Life. I’m still trying.

I rather like the oddball service which has Ghost Hunters as well as various editions of Storage Hunters as its main fare. But I fear it will be one of the first Canadian cable channels to go as the CRTC orders the “unbundling” of current consumer choices. Continue reading.

From TVO’s The Agenda, with guests Kelly Lynne Ashton and John Doyle:

From CBC’s The National, with guest Kelly Lynne Ashton: