• lukecyca@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    Very pleased with this news. Also interesting that they focused these fairly close together in an underserved region, rather than sprinkling them evenly across the country. I feel this could be a good strategy to ensure these new reporters are well-supported to thrive rather than being isolated. Assuming the success of this initiative, I hope that can do it again in a year or two, choosing another underserved region.

  • SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    This is what CBC should be doing. They should really invest more in small local communities that is very underserved these days.

    Even for international level news people would benefit from a vantage of how it impacts them on a local level.

  • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works
    26·
    1 day ago

    Good. Smaller regions need news too, mostly the ones served almost only by American investors (New Brunswick, for example)

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      22 hours ago

      The expansion doesn’t include anything east of Quebec, so New Brunswick isn’t getting any new reporters.

    • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      Maybe if we combined more investment and infrastructure like this for smaller and more remote communities, while promoting more remote work opportunities and scrapping pointless back-to-office mandates, we could start to make housing not just more affordable, but also allow people to live in housing they actually want to live in, detached homes with yards and communities, not shoebox condos in a sea of other anonymous humans. Small towns and villages need a renaissance, and unlike many places we have the the luxury of having more than enough land to be able to do that without being forced into a single-minded pursuit of urbanism.

      There’s nothing wrong with urbanism and city life, but it should be a choice based on preference, not a choice that economics increasingly forces of people into against their will because they can only get jobs where they have to commute and work downtown for no reason or because they can’t afford any other style of living.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        19 hours ago

        housing they actually want to live in, detached homes with yards and communities, not shoebox condos in a sea of other anonymous humans.

        What does “false consensus” mean?

        I love this fantasy that a yard and detached garage is somehow an entitlement if you want a good life. The two do not relate.

        Small towns and villages need a renaissance, and unlike many places we have the the luxury of having more than enough land

        Remember that every inch of land in this country is valuable for housing, infrastructure, business, farming and - most importantly in this climate - wild space.

        It’s a fallacy that bungalow jungles are cost-effective, space-effective, environmentally positive or even sane. Detroit showed it graphically, but absolutely no light-residential area can fully fund its long infrastructure runs on the paltry tax it provides. It’s a net loss for the city, which needs to raise taxes or cut more services…or declare some blocks dead.

        If two adjacent bungalows share a fence and one of them gets a new border Collie barking all night, you will have a war! We don’t have that here, as we found when we shared a wall with a family and a new barky border Collie. We heard only the hallway apologies of our neighbour for no disturbance at all. They’re very nice and the dog is adorable and smart.

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    23 hours ago

    Interesting that the expansion excludes the Atlantic provinces. Presumably the bulk of population growth has hit the western provinces, so I guess that’s cool?

    • Malle_Yeno@pawb.social
      3·
      19 hours ago

      Not suggesting that those provinces are undeserving of coverage, but speaking as someone out of Regina, Sask, we are genuinely starved for real local journalism out here. Often times, if you want local news to Regina, you might have to check a junk unit rental company’s Facebook. (this is not a joke, Just Bins is genuinely one of the only sources of local news here because real publications keep shuttering. they’re also incredibly racist and transphobic, so that really sucks for us that they’re all we really got.)

      I know none of these added journalists are for Regina, but if we’re doing this bad, the grids are doing way worse.