And they’re adding more. In addition to its $1.4 billion in funding from the federal government and the hundreds of millions more it pulls in advertising and subscriber fees (competing with private media in the process), CBC is getting $7 million a year from Google as its share of the Online News Act. This is the same fund that has provided funding to community news organizations like ours. At Great West, we gave our share directly to our local reporters, bringing their wages up for the first time in years.

Source: CBC News February 21, 2026 19:59 UTC