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Share Your Surplus Story – We Want to Hear from You!
With another pension surplus share on the way, we would love to hear how this extra financial support has impacted you. Did it help you finally take that bucket-list trip? Were you able to renovate a room in your home or make an important repair? Perhaps you used it to treat yourself to a special […]
read moreWe Did It – Again
The vote to approve the distribution of the pension surplus has successfully reached the required two-thirds support. It was a challenge, but we prevailed, and the process is now set to move to the next required steps. So, what happens now? This week, the CBC will notify the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions […]
read moreCBC Pensioners Welcome Heritage Minister’s Proposals
The CBC Pensioners National Association (PNA), which represents all CBC pensioners, fully supports the proposal by Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge to guarantee a strong independent public broadcaster. The proposal, which addresses the key issues of funding, mandate and governance, is a plan long overdue and one that if fulfilled would establish the framework to keep […]
read moreDefending the CBC
On January 25th, 2025, one of our members, Judi Milne, received this written response from Conservative MP Rick Perkins, MP for South Shore-St. Margarets, Nova Scotia. Judi had written to ask for his party’s position on the CBC. The Conservatives have been clear in their intentions to defund the CBC. Judi shared Perkins’ letter with […]
read moreIs our Pension Plan Safe?
I have received a number of questions about the future of our CBC Pension Plan in the event the Conservatives are elected and follow through with defunding the CBC. It is a difficult question to answer given that we really don’t know what “defund” practically means. There are various versions of the future of CBC […]
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