Please note: Deadline for Senators to decide about amendments (including our amendment) to the Broadcasting Act has been extended by the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications (TRCM) so there’s still time to share your views with the members of the Senate Committee.
The future of Radio Canada International (RCI) will be [...]
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Veuillez noter : La date limite pour que les sénateurs décident des amendements (y compris notre amendement) à la Loi sur la radiodiffusion a été prolongée par le Comité sénatorial des transports et des communications (TRCM), il est donc encore temps de partager votre point de vue avec les membres du Comité sénatorial.
L’avenir de Radio [...]
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El futuro de Radio Canadá Internacional (RCI) se decidirá a mediados de noviembre. Para entonces, una comisión del Senado canadiense decidirá si se modifica o no la redacción del apartado 2 del artículo 46 de la Ley de Radiodifusión de Canadá. Este artículo es la única legislación federal que se [...]
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The new “modernized” Radio Canada International (RCI) website produced by CBC/Radio-Canada was supposed to give our world service greater visibility and more content “to ensure that the service remains a strong and relevant voice in the 21st-century media landscape.” (CBC/Radio-Canada announcement Dec 3, 2020.)
Based on these goals, since its launch on May 19, the site has [...]
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Le nouveau site Web « modernisé » de Radio Canada International (RCI) produit par CBC/Radio-Canada était censé donner à notre service mondial plus de visibilité et plus de contenu « pour réaffirmer son rôle et sa pertinence dans l’environnement médiatique du XXIe siècle ». (Annonce de CBC/Radio-Canada le 3 décembre 2020.)
Sur la base de ces [...]
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reprinted with permission The Hill Times
By NEIL MOSS May 5, 2021
‘Radio Canada International has just one mandate and that is to explain Canada to the world,’ says former host Wojtek Gwiazda.
A former host at Radio Canada International, Wojtek Gwiazda is behind a push to reverse changes that he fears will hamper the international [...]
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The Canadian government has proposed a change to Canada’s Broadcasting Act that threatens the existence of Radio Canada International (RCI). Buried in a reform of the Act that focuses on international streaming services, one sentence, Article 46 (2) has been altered to remove the existence of an international service as a condition of the licence [...]
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Le gouvernement canadien a proposé une modification de la Loi canadienne sur la radiodiffusion qui menace l’existence de Radio Canada International (RCI). Enfoui dans une réforme de la Loi qui met l’accent sur les services de diffusion en continu internationaux, une phrase, l’article 46 (2) a été modifié pour supprimer l’existence d’un service international comme [...]
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Staff at Radio Canada International (RCI) has been told that CBC/Radio-Canada needs more time to implement its new RCI policy, which was scheduled to begin April 1.
At a video conference call on March 30, host-producers and webmasters, most of whom were to lose their jobs on April 1, were told the CBC/Radio-Canada [...]
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reprinted with permission The Hill Times
By WOJTEK GWIAZDA MARCH 29, 2021
The CBC never understood that the uniqueness of RCI is that we explain Canada to the rest of the world. And at a time when Canada needs to be understood, Radio Canada International should be expanded and be ready for the challenges [...]
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