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Strongly rumoured as of Wednesday of this past week, and confirmed this morning with the early dropping of the federal election writ(s) for October 19th.
CBC and CTV were live and both had extended coverage of the formal proceedings and in studio analysis... but where was Global? Strangely absent... its not like they had no advance notice of this...
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CBC Radio 1 covered it live. And I couldn't help but think how much the purists will be dreading the next few months. If I'm not mistaken, under the rules, the CBC must accept and air all political advertising from at least the Big Three. That means - yikes! - ads will soon be appearing daily on CBC Radio 1, normally a bragged about bastion of commercial free programming.
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Now that I think of it, perhaps the real irony is that CBC Radio will have to accept ads praising Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, the very entity network brass accuse of trying to cut most of its major funding. At the same time, the Conservatives will potentially be advertising on an outlet the party sees as being completely left wing in its news coverage on all things political, and totally anti-Tories. I have to wonder if they'll even spend the money trying to convince that audience they're worth another term.
Talk about your strange bedfellows...
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Elections Canada announced Monday a reallocation of paid time for the 2015 federal election, created by the official deregistering of the Western Block Party earlier this year.
Built by controversial B.C. lawyer Doug Christie over three decades before his death in March 2013, the Western Block Party was deregistered as of Jan. 31 after failing to achieve the necessary 250 member signatures.
That led to a deduction of seven minutes and 30 seconds from the total broadcasting time allocation. Broadcasting arbitrator Peter S. Grant proposed to reallocate that time by adding 30 seconds to the time allocated to the 15 parties receiving the smallest amount of time.
Section 335 of the Canada Elections Act states that every broadcaster in Canada is required to make 390 minutes (six-and-a-half hours) of airtime available to registered political parties during a federal general election.
Under the reallocation announced Monday, that includes eight minutes and 30 seconds for the Pirate Party of Canada, eight minutes for the Marijuana Party and eight minutes for Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada. The Online Party of Canada receives the least amount of airtime—seven minutes.
Under the reallocation of airtime, the Conservative Party of Canada has 114 minutes of airtime, followed by the official opposition the NDP (84 minutes) and the Liberal Party of Canada (49 minutes). The Green Party of Canada will receive 22 minutes, followed by the Bloc Québécois (18 minutes).
James Wilson, leader of the Pirate Party of Canada, said his party plans to use its allotted time in the 2015 election, and is currently developing its election platform. The party did use its allotted time in the 2011 election, its first general election.
Wilson said the Pirate Party’s current ads have focused on current events, which he said is good practice for its campaign team in determining what makes a viable election ad.
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Now that I think of it, perhaps the real irony is that CBC Radio will have to accept ads praising Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, the very entity network brass accuse of trying to cut most of its major funding. At the same time, the Conservatives will potentially be advertising on an outlet the party sees as being completely left wing in its news coverage on all things political, and totally anti-Tories.
One thing that bothered me popped up in a Toronto Star story yesterday:
>> Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, notorious for how rare he is available to media, took five questions from reporters outside Rideau Hall Sunday morning.
Those questions had conditions, though: the questions were restricted to those media outlets that have agreed to go on tour with the Conservatives, at a cost of $12,500 a week. <<
Since the CBC was among those asking questions Sunday morning, we have to assume it was paying for the priviledge.
Is that the same thing as PAYING for news?
Tell Steve to jam it. Get off the bus. Now.
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