Rally in Cape Breton to Protest CBC Cuts
A rally is planned for noon today to protest cuts at the CBC’s Sydney, Nova Scotia bureau.
About 15 staff work at the bureau, as many as eight of them are facing layoffs.
The rally is being organized by a group called ‘Friends of CBC Cape Breton.’ It follows a similar rally held in Sudbury over the weekend (pictured above). The Sudbury rally was attended by more than 100 people, including local MP’s, musicians, and CMG President Lise Lareau.
There’s more information on the Cape Breton rally here.
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Actually, the Sudbury rally had more than 600 people at it which is amazing given it was organized in five days. We’re still waiting for CBC management to explain how this massacre of northern Ontario programming is justified when many larger regional centers haven’t lost any jobs at all.