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   From: "@nyet.ca   
      
   > On 9/13/2014 10:59 PM, Alan Baker wrote:   
   >> So they're cutting their funding by a little more than 10%.   
   >>   
   >> This is hardly a death knell.,   
      
   On 9/14/2014 12:46 AM, David Johnston wrote:   
   > Combined with the loss of hockey, it means that (including the cuts to staff   
   > this year) by the year 2020 they will have gone from over 8,000 employees to   
   > under 6,000.  So yeah.  It's a death knell.  They're well on the way to being   
   > scrapped and sold for parts.  Particularly since there's no reason to think   
   > there won't be more cuts not yet accounted for in their plants in the next   
   > couple of years.   
      
   Both the Liberals and the NDP have vowed to protect and reinstate funding for   
   the CBC.   
   Get it in writing from both parties before you vote in October 2015.   
      
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