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Monday, 29 August 2005
Shelagh Rogers to launch podcast road-trip < 10:32:33 PM>.
Shelagh
Rogers, locked-out host of Sounds Like Canada, will launch her own podcast this week as she embarks on
a cross-Canada tour -- talking to Canadians about their daily lives and
dropping in on picket lines along her journey. She and two producers will leave Wednesday from Victoria B.C. You'll be able to follow the broadcasts by checking in at cbcunplugged.com
[Via CBC Unplugged .com]
Far out! Way to go Shelagh. I'll bet that Natasha is one of those producers. Can't wait till they get to TO.
The Globe and Mail: A lockout? How about a rethink? < 12:52:34 AM>.
The CBC, which has too many managers and is too prone to second-guessing itself, needs more of these successful efforts and more leadership articulating a clearer vision: President Robert Rabinovitch has been invisible during the lockout. Management knows what the problems are, it just hasn't always figured out how to get its staff to help solve them. Locking them out probably isn't the best way.
Kate Taylor nails it in the final sentence. The feeling on the line is "they've asked us to be flexible and for years we've been turning ourselves inside out to accommodate them. Now they want more, so badly that they've thrown us out on the street. How much co-operation do they expect when we get back in there?
The Globe and Mail: Minister seeks review of satellite-radio ruling < 12:44:41 AM>.
"It looks like cultural dumping," Montreal MP Denis Coderre said in an interview yesterday. "We're not asking just to revisit it. We truly need to have it stopped and redo the homework."
But some MPs, including many in the so-called "auto caucus" -- ridings with car plants and their workers -- want the CRTC decision to stand. Car buyers are a key market for satellite radio systems.
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