EXCLUSIVE: Ottawa says CBC received zero ‘media subsidies’ despite billions in public funding

CBC receives no federal “media subsidies,” but gets public funding through parliamentary appropriations, according to Canadian Heritage and the CBC.

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The federal government says CBC/Radio-Canada has received exactly zero dollars from Ottawa’s media subsidy programs over the past five years, drawing a distinction between subsidies available to news organizations and the public broadcaster’s direct parliamentary funding.

The disclosure came in response to an Order Paper question as…