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POLL: Readers more or less evenly split on defunding CBC

Should the CBC's federal subsidy be taken away? Village Media readers were more or less evenly divided in a recent online poll
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Kamloops This Week, CBC Radio and Radio NL staged an all-candidates forum in the Grand Hall at Thompson Rivers University for councillor and mayoral candidates on Wednedsay (Oct. 5).

One much-repeated proposal by the federal Conservatives involves taking federal funding away from the CBC - but not Radio-Canada, its French-language equivalent. 

Village Media readers were roughly equally divided on the idea, with 53 per cent disagreeing and 47 per cent agreeing.  

Women are much more likely to be opposed:

As are older readers, though this isn't as strong a pattern:

There isn't a strong connection to income, other than in the highest bracket:

Not surprisingly for a signature Conservative policy, there is a strongly partisan aspect to the responses:

Responses are strongly correlated to views on gun control, and whether the federal government dealt with the 2022 convoy protests correctly:

Supporters of public funding for the CBC are much less likely to have or want tattoos ...

... and a bit less likely to use recreational cannabis, though this isn't anything like as strong a relationship:

CBC supporters were much more likely to have said they were paying some attention to the Paris Olympics. There's a much more tenuous relationship with watching the NHL.

CBC supporters are much more likely to be open to EVs:

Cat people are more likely to want the CBC to keep its subsidy, and dog people are more likely to want to take it away:


Patrick Cain

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Patrick is an online writer and editor in Toronto, focused mostly on data, FOI, maps and visualizations. He has won some awards, been a beat reporter covering digital privacy and cannabis, and started an FOI case that ended in the Supreme Court
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