Death by a THOUSAND CUTS

T13:05 hrs.
26 June 14

      Well the jig is up.
     
      It was announced today that the CBC will undergo another round of financial and personnel cuts. The CEO has put forward a plan to reduce the CBC the supper hour news coverage. The current 90 minute news will be slashed to an hour in some places and down to thirty minutes in others. At the same time digital media, the use of WIDGETS, will be increased. Only that the CBC only brings in about 3% of its revenue by this method.

       
       The loss of personnel is what is most disconcerting. The reduction of people who generate and produce the daily diet of information that allows us to make sense of the world we live in will only hurt us in the long run. Those of us who listen to the CBC know that we will still recieve the news but the content and the quality of that news will be exponentially diminished.

        I really like the CBC, as if you couldn't tell. It's not only the news its all of the programmes that make it distinctly CANADIAN. I have a sneaking suspicion that our IMPERIOUS LEADER in Ottawa wants to have the CBC, the people's network, brought more inline with the YOUALL SHLOCK NEWS NETWORKS that he admires so much.

        Another Federal Department is under the axe again. The Department of National Defence has obligated to complete the massive trimming demanded several years ago. The current Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) is publicly questioning the rationale of these measures. If I were him I'd be careful or Sneaky Steve (SS) will demand his resignation too. Ole Steve prefers to be surrounded by YES MEN and the last CDS to stand up to him and get away with it was GENERAL HILLIER. But then again,  HILLIER was from Newfoundland and you really don't want to piss those guys off because they DO NOT back down from a scrap.

       The question remains before you: How long will the bleeding go on before our country's collective national defence strategy is reduced to the "The Mouse that Roared"?

       Another question is: What are you going to do about it? Are you willing to ask questions? Demand logical answers?
Follow through? OR, ARE YOU SHEEP?
      
       #1 SON is off to Ivan's place which will leave the OTHER at home. I plan on teaching him how to play cribbage. A good card game that has stood the test of time. In our family at least.

       Here's a picture of Tree Island (off the north end of Denman Island) at low tide.