We need an idependenet news agency with no Government funding to ensure unbiased reporting.

would not a class action lawsuit here for misrepresentation of govt funds and services be in order?

Thank you CBC for correcting the record. You are still the best network in North America.

Welcome to Harper's corporate welfare state.

The Canadian taxpayers are no doubt proud to be subsidizing the daily dose of Sunshine Girls and Boys.

"Waaah, waaaaaah, they won't advertise in my tabloid rags!" Great to hear that Harper's mouthpiece Sun is subsidized to the tune of half-a-billion a year. It gives me another reason to ignore them. Phoney, phoney, phoney; the biggest shill for privatization of the media has its fingers in your taxpaying pockets.

Ezra Levant, with tears streaming down his cheeks, is on the phone right now to Pierre Karl Péladeau asking him if this article is true!

"$500-million in public subsidies over the last three years without being accountable." Yes, that's a good point, but it points to a still larger dilemma: when right-wing corporatist parties gain political power, they tend to entrench these attitudes regarding lack of accountability. It's in their DNA.

Quebecor is a piece of trash media and shouldn't be receiving subsidies from anyone!! And I'll defend Canada's public broadcaster ANYtime!

Sun Media should be allowed to die. It is a garbage news outlet as every word and every commentator is a raging, hate spewing right winger (Brian Lilley and his CN}BC book, Ezra Levant and his hate speech against gypsies).

Quebecor is already feeding at the public trough it just doesn't like taxpayers to know that.

As it turns out, Quebecor boss Péladeau doesn’t have a problem with taxpayer-subsidized television after all. At least, he didn’t in a June 14 letter to James Moore:

The CEO of Quebecor, Pierre Karl Péladeau, is threatening to sue the federal government if the heritage minister doesn’t intervene to change the admissibility criteria for the Canada Media Fund to allow shows like the [Quebecor-produced] Star Académie to benefit from it.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/06/23/peladeau-was-for-taxpayer-subsidies-before-he-was-against-them/

Oh and BTW, why is Sun Media swapping spit with the Canadian Sports Shooting Association? If you go to the CSSA see Sun Media as an advertiser and you'll see CSSA promoting the anti-CBC book.