Rest easy, socialist authoritarian state comrades. This is Canada. Liberal-leftists still rule.
Left-wing state-run media propaganda is to continue to be forced on cable operators by official decree handed down by the Canadian state censor and its new rules.
According to the state-censor, the CRTC, the state-run CBC radio must, by law, continue to be carried by the private cable TV operators like Rogers and Shaw. They are not free to act as they please when it comes to deciding what they will and will not carry and offer to Canadian citizens. The citizens will receive the state-run media whether there is a demand for it by them or not.
No word on effort by some liberal-leftists at the CBC on innovative new ways to force the broadcast into the ears and eyes of citizens, but loudspeakers and hayuge TV screens on busy street corners (with 
logo!) is a possible way to go, which would go well with gigantic posters and statues of Pierre Trudeau and Paul Martin and sundry Liberal and NDP national heroes like Tommy Douglas and Fidel Castro.
Many people don’t know that by Canadian law, the state-run CBC TV must also be carried by cable and satellite operators. Also, the state-run news channel CBC Newsworld must be offered to subscribers. By law. You cannot choose to not receive CBC TV in your home. You must by law receive it. Notwithstanding that whole “God keep our land glorious and free” gambit.
Vote liberal.
Commercial radio being cut from cable
As few were listening, CRTC allows freeing up of bandwidth for digital and HDTV
GRANT ROBERTSON
MEDIA REPORTERCable providers have been cleared by Ottawa to drop dozens of radio stations from their services in order make room for digital and high-definition television channels.
The federal broadcast regulator said yesterday it will no longer require distributors to carry commercial radio stations on their analog wires—a throwback to the 1970s when FM was added to cable in order to boost the industry’s reach.
The advent of streaming audio over the Internet has made cable less important for radio stations, while distributors have been clamouring to free up broadband capacity for new TV channels.
However, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will still require distributors to carry public radio on cable, including French and English CBC, aboriginal and campus stations.
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