Canadian Heritage committee  Our plan is to set up structures that respect the choices of communities. For a community of 5,000 residents that brings together perhaps four or five municipalities such as the Qu'Appelle River valley in Saskatchewan, the idea is not for community media to become big MAtvs and t

Canadian Heritage committee  In Quebec, to support the core mandate of community television, the Government of Quebec provides financial support to community television stations that produce four hours of news programming a week. The amount of that support is between $25,000 and $35,000. Community television

Canadian Heritage committee  As far back as 1986, the task force on broadcasting policy prepared the Caplan-Sauvageau report, recommending that community channels, which had reached their maturity, obtain their own licence in the new broadcasting legislation that would be passed in 1991. Similarly, in 2003,