CBC’s five-year plan includes grooming kids & foreigners to build audience

OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada says it wants to expand its audience by pitching itself to Canadians who “under-value” its services — or don’t watch, listen to or read its offerings at all.

In its new five-year strategic plan, released Tuesday evening, the public broadcaster says it can’t “afford to rely solely on existing users and fans as confirmation of its value to the public.”

The strategy calls on CBC/Radio-Canada to build up its audience by reaching out to children and youth, newcomers and “non-users or dissatisfied users.”

What value?

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You can’t park there! Boeing 737 Max dramatically collides with two other jets as hapless airport ground staff misjudge space on the tarmac

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Canada’s plan to donate refurbished armour to Ukraine appears to be on the scrap heap

Ukraine has yet to receive the more than two dozen refurbished light armoured vehicles Canada promised to the war-torn country in September 2023, CBC News has learned.

The vehicles remain stuck in bureaucratic and corporate limbo — even though the Department of National Defence delivered the decommissioned vehicles to an Ontario-based company for reconstruction almost two years ago.

The fate of the restoration contract, publicly acknowledged around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s high-profile visit to Ottawa and believed to be worth between $150 million and $250 million, yet is now shrouded in secrecy.

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Greta Thunberg: I was tortured, beaten and starved by Israel

Greta Thunberg has claimed she was “hit, kicked, starved and tortured” during her time in Israeli custody.

The Swedish activist accused Israeli guards of defacing her suitcase with the words “whore Greta”, drawings of a penis and images of the Star of David.

The 22-year-old was detained by Israel earlier this month after taking part in an attempt by the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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Some flights delayed after Kelowna airport public information system hacked with pro-Hamas messaging

Kelowna International Airport says some flights have been delayed after a third party hacked its terminal display screens and public address system with pro-Hamas messaging on Tuesday evening.

The incident happened at about 5:15 p.m.

“We are experiencing some delayed flights,” the airport said in a news release.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Cocaine trafficking sentence cut in half for Jamaican facing deportation from Canada

An Ontario judge cut the sentence in half for a Black cocaine trafficker from Jamaica facing “a significant likelihood of deportation” because he’s already serving a six-year prison sentence in Canada for trafficking in fentanyl and gun-related offences.

Police caught Roosevelt Rush, a 32-year-old who was living in Brampton, with 55 grams of cocaine after he was released from custody on bail in December 2022 before sentencing took place for his fentanyl trafficking and gun convictions. The Ontario Court of Justice heard Rush was wearing a GPS monitoring device when authorities tracked him to Belleville, where he was caught with the cocaine.

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