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This page is presented as a record of the activity related to the CBC labour disruption of 2005. Sites and their content are subject to change without notice and may no longer be available.
On August 15, 2005, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation locked out 5,500 employees during labour relation negotiations with the Canadian Media Guild.
As would be expected when a group of broadcasting personalities, writers and producers are separated from their vocation, their voices have found alternate forms of expression -- on the internet. Listed here are just some of their sites.
breaking news | official positions | best on the net | the latest developments | alternate voices
Breaking News
The CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) have reached a memorandum of settlement after 16 months of negotiations -- read the latest at Tod Maffin's CBC Unplugged site -- taken down May 10th, 2006 :(
Official Positions
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The broadcaster's site for CBC/CMG negotiations. - Canadian Media Guild
The trade union's site for CBC/CMG negotiations.
Best On The Net
- CBC Unplugged
Tod Maffin's comprehensive guide to CBC blogs, podcasts and negotiation developments.
Site taken down May 10th, 2006 :( - CBC On The Line
The CMG news magazine covering the latest in lockout news.
The Latest Developments
- Google News
Up-to-the-minute press coverage. - del.icio.us/tag/cbclockout
The latest word from the blogosphere. - Technorati: CBC Lockout
More latest words from the blogosphere.
Alternate Voices
- Blog Central
Highlights from the blogosphere as sampled by the CMG. - Canadian Journalist - CBC Lockout
Discussion, criticism and resources for Canadian journalists ... by journalists. - CBCUnlocked
This news, information and entertainment site is a free public service for Canadians, developed by locked-out employees of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Now at Google News. - CBC Watch
A forum that claims to expose the bias. - Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
Their lockout coverage can be found here. - Our Public Airwaves
Concerned Canadians who believe in a strong public broadcasting system. - Save Our CBC!
A campaign organised by Our Public Airwaves (link above). - We Love The CBC
An online community of people who love the CBC. - Off Air - The CBC Edmonton Lockout Journal
View their "Week 4 On The Line" video in Mpeg format.
View their "Week 3 On The Line" video in Mpeg format.
View their "Week 2 On The Line" video in Mpeg format.
View their "Week 1 On The Line" video in Mpeg, Quicktime or Windows Media format. - Lockout Night in Canada
If they can't make TV, they might as well make something! - @lager heads - Vancouver
- Adventures of Pedro the Locked Out Gnome - Toronto
- Abolish The CBC - Saskatoon
- Arctic Lockout - Yellowknife
- Arts News Canada - Locked Out By The CBC - Toronto
- Canned Clams - Vancouver
- The Caravan Unlocked - Shelagh Rogers
- CBC Drone - Toronto
- CBC Fan - Ontario
- CBC Key Demographic - Winnpeg
- CBC Lockout - Nova Scotia
- CBC Lockout - Toronto
- CBC Lockout Prince George - Prince George
- CBC Lockout Support - the "coast"
- cbcworkerbee - Toronto
- CBCCalgaryreports - Calgary
- Circles Around the Square - Toronto
- CMG Fredericton
- CMG Northern New Brunswick
- Community Broadcast Centre - Charlottetown
- Confessions of a Camera Guy - Toronto
- Curious Monkey - Vancouver
- Dan Misener Likes The Radio - Windsor
- Flukemedia - Toronto
- The Garret Tree - Toronto
- I've Been Locked Out! - Toronto
- I Miss The CBC :( - Halifax
- Jenkew - Regina
- John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot - St. John's
- Lectio.ca - Calgary
- Lockout '05 - Gander Grand Falls-Windsor
- Locked Out Employee 100000223 - Winnipeg
- Locked Out In The Great White North - Yellowknife
- Locked Out Up Here - Yellowknife
- Locked Out x2 - PEI
- The Matt Watts Blog - Toronto
- Moneychangeseverything - Vancouver
- Norby At Work...Or Play? - Yellowknife
- Nose Pressed To Glass - Toronto
- Oakwriter - Toronto
- Pacific Palate Blog - Vancouver
- Parkdale Pictures - Toronto
- Picket in the Park - Edmonton
- qiqitiqpuq - Rankin Inlet
- Quietly Typing - management
- Secular Healing - Halifax
- Shootbothsides - Toronto
- Silenced - ?
- Some Vacation! - Toronto
- Tales From The Picket Line - Toronto
- TBC Nights - Toronto
- The Tea Makers - Management
- Thunderground (CMG Thunder Bay)
- Victoria CMG - Victoria
- The View from Ottawa - Ottawa
- YouGeek.ca - Nova Scotia
- GCM nord du Nouveau-Brunswick
- Lockout à CBC Radio-Canada - Ottawa
- CBC Unplugged
- Radio LabourStart
The Edmonton Scene
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