Not on your life would I pay $70 to hear Peter Mansbridge speak about anything, let alone something called, "Magnificent Men". Does he think he's one?? Please. But if you can find a few other chumps, you can secure a table for $560 when he comes to Calgary to deliver his bon mots.
Don't we get enough of Mansbridge every day, 10 times a day......forever and ever.......on CBC?! His head is so big I'm always surprised it fits into the screen. I'm sure he's one of the reasons Harper is starting to slash our national broadcaster.
That would be a big mistake. The CBC is one of the treasures that makes Canada "Canada". Without that we'd run the risk of being CNN. And what a disaster the latter is! How that network manages to be both vapid and hysterical at the same time is quite a feat. But CNN actually pulls it off.
A country as large and spread out as Canada needs a public broadcaster to pull it together. Graham Spry and his colleagues knew this back in the '40s, when they cobbled together a motley collection of local stations, turning them miraculously into the CBC. Granted, CBC television sucks, but radio does not. Some of the best programming you will ever hear is on CBC radio -- both One and Two.
Harper is such a control freak, His Majesty doesn't wish to abide the CBC. The irritating Peter Mansbridge notwithstanding, His Highness is wrong, wrong on that one.
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