Nov 24, 2011 — News Article: CBC head defends broadcaster on access to info by Laura Payton
Hubert Lacroix says the CBC's record on accountability and access to information has been lost in general confusion or distorted in coverage of its court case against Canada’s information commissioner.
Nov 24, 2011 — News Article: Truce called in CBC dispute at Commons committee on Access to Information by Dean Beeby
The access-to-information and ethics committee agreed to return sealed documents to the CBC rather than press ahead with a proposal by Conservative MPs to examine the sensitive material.
Nov 22, 2011 — News Article: Ottawa weighs loosening ownership rules in telecom sector by Steven Chase and Iain Marlow
Ottawa is considering a plan to open the door to more foreign ownership of telecom companies, a move that would allow non-Canadians to own 100 per cent of firms that have 10-per-cent market share or less.
Nov 15, 2011 — News Article: Gomery veut une loi pour forcer l'adhésion au Conseil de presse
John Gomery, Chair of Quebec's Press Council calls for a law to require media to adhere to the Council's standards.
Nov 15, 2011 — News Article: Comité parlementaire sur l'accès à l'information - Radio-Canada cède, mais l'opposition obtient la suspension des travaux
CBC bows to the Commons Access to Information Committee but the opposition persuades the Speaker to suspend the Committee's work.
Nov 14, 2011 — News Article: Money can’t buy love: Why every government hates the CBC by John Doyle
Columnist says there is nothing unique about this Conservative government’s loathing for the CBC and the hatred directed at CBC by Conservative MPs and their supporters.
Nov 13, 2011 — News Article: CONSERVATIVE DEMAND FOR CBC DOCS "UNLAWF UL" // DOCUMENTS DE RADIO-CANADA: LES DEMAND ES DES CONSERVATEURS SONT «ILLÉGALES»
Press Release: The NDP states Law Clerk Rob Walsh warns that Conservative MP Del Mastro is over-stepping Parliament and interfering with the courts.
Nov 13, 2011 — News Article: Tory bid for CBC documents could end up in damaging court battle: lawyer by Stephen Thorne
Parliamentary law clerk and counsel Rob Walsh says the move by Tory members of the access-to-information committee could end up in the courts, where he says their attempt is likely to fail.
Nov 13, 2011 — News Article: Tory bid for CBC documents could violate constitution: parliamentary lawyer by Frank Appleyard
In a letter responding to legal questions from the NDP, parliamentary law clerk and counsel Rob Walsh wrote that MPs on the access-to-information committee are stepping into uncertain constitutional waters, and “could be seen as interfering with and possibly undermining the judicial process.”
Nov 11, 2011 — News Article: Majority backs public funding for CBC, poll finds by Jennifer Ditchburn
Columnist says a Harris-Decima survey conducted for The Canadian Press suggests 46 per cent of Canadians would like the CBC's funding to stay at the current level and 23 per cent would like it to be increased.
Nov 8, 2011 — News Article: Hill Dispatches: Heritage Minister joins the gang-up on CBC by Karl Nerenberg
Columnist says the CBC gives a place to Kevin O'Leary, Don Cherry and Rex Murphy, all of whom get to freely express their generally right-of-centre views with alacrity, yet a good many Conservatives think of the Corporation as a left-wing conspiracy.
Nov 7, 2011 — News Article: Bar association says Tory MPs should back off CBC access case until court rules
The Canadian Bar Association says a parliamentary committee should back off its campaign against the CBC until the Federal Court has a chance to rule on the issue.
Nov 7, 2011 — News Article: CBC in contempt of Parliament if it doesn't produce documents Access Committee requests: Del Mastro by Tim Naumetz
MP Dean Del Mastro says the CBC has no choice but to hand over the documents to an in camera meeting of the Commons Access to Information and Ethics Committee, even though the Federal Court of Appeal is at the moment deciding whether the broadcaster must release them to the Information Commissioner.
Nov 6, 2011 — News Article: Care About This by John Miller
Writer says Canadians should care about the current dispute between Quebecor Inc. and the CBC because it may have serious implications for freedom of expression.
Nov 2, 2011 — News Article: PrivilegeWatch: Ethics committee passes redacted version of the Del Mastro order to produce by Kady O'Malley
Columnist says Ethics Committe is no longer seeking the unredacted responses to Access to Information requests filed by FRIENDS.
Nov 2, 2011 — News Article: Opposition boycotts Commons probe of CBC
The NDP and the Liberals boycotted a Commons committee that has been scrutinizing the CBC's approach towards access to information, opposing a Conservative bid to have the public broadcaster turn over internal documents.
Oct 31, 2011 — News Article: Cut funding to secretive CBC: Worthington by Peter Worthington
Columnist says it's wrong for the CBC to be bidding on programs that the private sector would run but can’t match because of government funding.
Oct 27, 2011 — News Article: Make CBC president more accountable, advocacy group tells committee
FRIENDS wants CBC's board to be appointed through a non-political process and then be responsible for hiring the president.
Oct 27, 2011 — Policy Brief: Presentation to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics House of Commons
FRIENDS tells a Parliamentary committee looking into CBC's access to information policies that the root cause of the public broadcaster's disclosure avoidance is patronage appointments of its Board and President.
Oct 27, 2011 — News Article: CBC pals gang up on state broadcaster by Mark Dunn
FRIENDS tells the House of Commons Ethics Committee that CBC President Hubert Lacroix is effectively accountable to no one.
