CBC actually rents most of its office space now, including the new building in Montreal, it doesn’t own the building. Which complicates things about leasing the space to other businesses or modifying the lease agreement depending on their financial situation in a short timeframe.
At 1.3B$/year that would be an average of $34.21/year per Canadian if we round it out to 38M, but more realistically if we go with how many tax returns there were in 2023 (around 31.8M), that would be an average of $40.88/year per taxpayer.
At the current rate of inflation, that’s like one meal for a family of four at McDonalds.
Does the CBC need to absolutely return a profit? Should hospitals be held to the same target of becoming profitable no matter what? It’s a public service, it’s our culture, we have great reporters who are keeping the government accountable by constantly digging. I’m not saying it should be careless financially and it needs to balance its budget so that it doesn’t waste the taxpayers money, but to me that is the price of a healthy democracy.
Inflation (increasing production cost, hardware, licensing, salaries) and dwindling ad revenue was a double-whammy on their finance projection, and now they sadly have to adjust where layoffs are necessary… :(
Imagine if we doubled that to 90$/year. Hopefully they could free themselves up from having to serve ads to make ends meet, and make the news network free for all.
Are these bots from alien.top posting outside of their instance?
And maybe an improvement to the instance blocking feature could be to add a toggle to also block users from that instance as well, not just the communities (per-instance setting).
The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large...
Not OP, but I’m using a Pixel 7 Pro with this phone charger in my car. My wife doesn’t have wireless charging through her phone, so she just added a magnetic ring to hold the phone and charge it over USB-C. The magnetic field is quite strong, I don’t have the feeling it will fall by accident.
Seems pointless and inconvenient for me as they usually seem to be poor quality, and can you really listen to music in the shower, and are you showering long enough to benefit from it?...
Anything new with beehaw and the lemmyverse? Are we still changing platforms? Things seem a lot more quiet now. Is that really a bad thing though? How are you?
Meh, /u/spez can ligma balls, I’ve logged out of my 16yo Reddit account. Lemmy is cozy, the users are mostly chill and there’s no ads except for the occasional spammers that are swiftly dealt with.
I find myself needing to read things that don’t have emotional weight for me. I have noticed that most of the articles and sites I frequent when I’m bored, even the previously neutral-feeling ones, are bringing up Tough Feelings for me lately. I need less triggering stuff to waste time looking at, when I’m too tired for...
Not sure why someone always downvotes the french links, it’s tagged as French for a reason. If you don’t like it, unselect French from your Lemmy account then you won’t see it?
The Conservatives have a 16-point lead. Three-quarters of the country think it's time for a change. But Justin Trudeau is vowing to fight Pierre Poilievre in the next election.
Two instances I have accounts with have switched to Lemmy 0.19. This is a breaking change for many apps, including Connect. Is there any news re supporting this in the near future or is it time to look for another app?...
Bring back standardised headlight, and a maximum height allowance on vehicle’s headlights so that they’re not right in a sedan’s driver’s rearview mirror when a pickup is tailgating.
One reason why I enjoy my electric toothbrush, as it vibrates every 30 seconds to tell you to switch to the next quadrant, up to 2 minutes. No guesswork, and it brushes better than I ever could using a regular toothbrush.
When so much shit gets thrown at you that you have to rehome a pet, it’s so nice to be reminded on Black Friday that you still don’t have that pet, but here are some deals you can’t fucking use.
Now how to technically do this I’m not sure, but from what I can read is that the cookies should be blocked until the user takes an action to let them through.
CBC/Radio-Canada supprimera 600 emplois et abolira 200 postes vacants (ici.radio-canada.ca) French
CBC/Radio-Canada to cut 10 per cent of workforce, end some programming as it faces $125M budget shortfall (www.cbc.ca)
How do you justify continually using take out delivery services?
For those that continually use services like Uber Eats, Grubhub, DoorDash, etc., how does justify using the cost?...
Can we defederate from Alien.top? It's just bots.
Alien.top’s raison-d’etre is to create bots and repost things from Reddit....
Nothing's iMessage app wasn't its only security lapse - Android Authority (www.androidauthority.com)
Who's winning the war in Ukraine?
The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large...
As a MagSafe fan, I can't wait for Qi2 to come to Android (www.androidauthority.com)
Does anyone actually use bathroom bluetooth speakers?
Seems pointless and inconvenient for me as they usually seem to be poor quality, and can you really listen to music in the shower, and are you showering long enough to benefit from it?...
Espace : il y a 50 ans, les lunes de Jupiter dévoilées par la sonde Pioneer 10 (www.francetvinfo.fr) French
Incus has joined LinuxContainers (LXC) (linuxcontainers.org)
I stumbled upon this interesting platform and thought I’d share....
Why Bethesda Responding to Starfield's Steam Reviews Is Part of a Rising Games Industry Trend (me.ign.com)
First time here in a good minute. Hows it going?
Anything new with beehaw and the lemmyverse? Are we still changing platforms? Things seem a lot more quiet now. Is that really a bad thing though? How are you?
Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO (arstechnica.com)
You've been instantly teleported two feet to the left. How does this affect you?
Light, interesting reading? Link me your favorite articles.
I find myself needing to read things that don’t have emotional weight for me. I have noticed that most of the articles and sites I frequent when I’m bored, even the previously neutral-feeling ones, are bringing up Tough Feelings for me lately. I need less triggering stuff to waste time looking at, when I’m too tired for...
FREE WEEKEND IS LIVE! - Experience massive 254 player battles today! (store.steampowered.com)
Play free until December 4th
Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It! (www.techdirt.com)
… Finally, this isn’t exactly a “problem” with the lawsuit, but I’ll just note the conflict in two separate statements:...
Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data
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Prévention du suicide : lancement de la ligne 988 partout au Canada (ici.radio-canada.ca) French
The SBU blew up a strategic railway in Russia. It leads to China, - sources (www.rbc.ua)
Poll says three in four want Trudeau to go, but Trudeau insists he’ll stay (globalnews.ca)
The Conservatives have a 16-point lead. Three-quarters of the country think it's time for a change. But Justin Trudeau is vowing to fight Pierre Poilievre in the next election.
Federal government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act (www.cbc.ca)
Ottawa s’entend avec Google sur les redevances versées aux médias canadiens (ici.radio-canada.ca) French
18+ Russian tries to fight an FPV drone with sticks. (streamable.com)
Mirror:...
Logiciels espions : un usage répandu au fédéral, selon des documents internes (ici.radio-canada.ca) French
Lemmy 0.19 compatibility?
Two instances I have accounts with have switched to Lemmy 0.19. This is a breaking change for many apps, including Connect. Is there any news re supporting this in the near future or is it time to look for another app?...
Notepad++ v8.6: 20th-Year Anniversary (notepad-plus-plus.org)
Ahhh my eyes (lemmy.ml)
Why do dentists always recommend to brush 2 times for 2-3 minutes?
I almost always read in the news/press that dentists recommend to brush teeth two times a day for 2-3 minutes....
We just wanted to remind you that you used to have a cat
When so much shit gets thrown at you that you have to rehome a pet, it’s so nice to be reminded on Black Friday that you still don’t have that pet, but here are some deals you can’t fucking use.
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