From Kate Taylor of The Globe and Mail:

Five years ago, Canadians were paying $34 each for the CBC’s services; today the combination of budget cuts and a growing population have whittled that number to about $29, and yet Canadians keep asking why the CBC doesn’t do a better job. Standing around in the CBC el-cheapo noodle shop waving the $20 bill that will pay for dinner as though they some kind of big spenders, Canadians demand to know why Susur Lee isn’t working behind the counter cooking up gourmet fusion. Continue reading.

From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail:

So farewell then, Sun News. Gone on Friday the 13th with a wee whimper.

How to classify the closing? It is tempting to mock. Shortly after Sun News went dark came a release from Fox announcing that 10 more episodes of World’s Funniest Fails had been ordered. Tempting to throw Sun News into World’s Funniest Fails. Tempting, but wrong. Continue reading.

From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail:

Five TV reasons to be cheerful in mid-February
Songs of Freedom, (Vision TV, Fridays, 10 p.m.) is glorious. The Canadian opera singer Measha Brueggergosman performs an immensely powerful selection of spirituals – “music that emerged from Africa out of the slave trade to America.” Brueggergosman is one of our great cultural assets and here, in a program made by Rhombus Media and directed by Barbara Willis Sweete, she unleashes sublime interpretations of such material as Amazing Grace, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Go Tell it on the Mountain and Go Down Moses. Continue reading.