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Apparently one of the half-dozen CBC reporters called a colleague in Calgary who then made a phone call to Calgary city hall for reaction to Calgary police being able to hire 41 more officers.

Stelmach’s government also announced it is considering changing campaign finance laws, targeting third-party advertising. The premier used as an example “the $2.2 million that the unions spent against me personally.”

Maybe the whole Stelmach government should be banned for at least a year.

Trust is like virginity, easy to lose, hard to get back.

“CBC violated such an agreement for the April 22 budget when a television reporter made phone calls to the city of Calgary before the finance minister began her speech. No sensitive information made it on air.”

I think the government reaction is a bit overboard. If CBC went on air with the info then that’s a major breach and warrants a serious response. But because a reporter called someone to get started on reaction, what, maybe an hour or two before the information became public? Yah complain to that reporter’s boss and maybe ban that reporter to make the point, but I’m not sure a ban for a whole year for the whole corp is really needed here. I wonder if the response would be the same if it had been a more government friendly CTV or Global reporter?