CMG wants feds to stop paying CBC

OTTAWA - "Should a Crown corporation that locks out its employees continue to get its full parliamentary appropriation?" asks the Canadian Media Guild today. In an ad appearing today in the Hill Times, Parliament Hill’s weekly newspaper, the union called on the federal government to withhold CBC's parliamentary appropriation during the lockout. However, one wonders who’s there to read it, since Parliament is on its usual long summer break and many MPs are in their home ridings or on vacation. "CBC management should not be using Canadians' money to finance the lockout," said Guild president Lise Lareau in a press...