Canadian Heritage committee  That's from the technological side.

Canadian Heritage committee  Then there's the human side. You need the boots on the ground. It continues to amaze me that the first thing you do when economic times are tough is to take those people who are producing the product you're trying to sell and hustling them out the door.

Canadian Heritage committee  All I can tell you, Mr. Chairman, is that when I was running the news desk in the 1980s, I could put 10 to 11 reporters on the street on any given day to cover this community. That was when it was smaller and the issues were a lot simpler. Trying to do that today with three, fo

Canadian Heritage committee  I want to draw the committee's attention to the Statistics Canada report that was released on January 15. It tracks the use of media for following news stories, and some of the statistics are quite dramatic. The proportion of Canadians who said they follow news and current affa

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it's figuring out how to do business in this particular world. As an old television journalist, one of the things I see is that they're still doing newscasts today the way they did when I first got into the business back in the seventies. There are a lot more bells and wh

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I'm good.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think if you don't have the information that you think you need to be able to find out whether the objectives of the Broadcasting Act are being met, then you should ask the regulator to put in place whatever steps you think are necessary to give you the information you need to

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Chairman, as your committee has already heard, local news is under severe pressure. Strong local media serve many purposes. They foster citizen engagement and enable our democracy to exist. A vibrant local station is at the heart of its community, which relies on it for info

Canadian Heritage committee  What ought to be done about local broadcast news? The proposal now on the table is for another fund for local television news. The first was the small market local programming fund approved by the commission in 2003. Since 2013, the five largest broadcasters have received 16.8%