NEW RADIO, NEW PARTIES,

AND A NEW WORLD

ORDER

NEW RADIO

CBC
BEFORE THE CREATION OF CBC THE UNITED STATES
RADIO STATIONS DOMINATED CANADIAN AIRWAVES
AMERICAN RADIO PLAYED MUSIC AND PROGRAMS
THAT REPRESENTED THEIR IDEAS AND CULTURE,
AND IN TURN THIS AFFECTED CANADIAN CULTURE
AT THE TIME
SOME PEOPLE WANTED A RADIO STATION THAT WAS
CANADIAN AND REPRESENTED CANADIAN CULTURE
= CBC ORIGINALLY CALLED CANADIAN RADIO
BROADCASTING COMMISSION (CRBC)

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IN 1936, ALONG WITH ITS NEW NAME,

CBC BECAME RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF
CANADAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING
INNOVATION
PUBLICLY FUNDED BY THE GOVERNMENT

QUESTION: TO BE ANSWERED IN YOUR

NOTES

SHOULD THE CANADIAN PEOPLE

SUPPORT A PUBLIC
BROADCASTING CORPORATION?
WHY?

NEW PARTIES

NEW PARTIES
BEFORE THE DEPRESSION CANADIAN ELECTIONS WERE
DOMINATED BY CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERALS
WHEN THESE PARTIES COULDNT PROVIDE EVERY
CANADIAN WITH A SOLUTION TO THE DEPRESSION,
THEY LOOKED ELSEWHERE
CCF AND SOCIAL CREDIT PARTIES STARTED TO GAIN
POPULARITY AT THIS TIME

THE SOCIAL CREDIT PARTY

FEDERAL: STARTED IN 1935 BY J. H.
BLACKMORE, DISSOLVED IN 1993
THE FEDERAL PARTY STEMMED FROM THE
PROVINCIAL PARTY THAT STARTED IN ALBERTA
THE PARTY WANTED TO CREATE A SYSTEM
THAT KEPT THE ECONOMY GOING PEOPLE
GO INTO DEBT, THE GOVERNMENT GOES INTO
DEBT, AND THEN BUSINESSES LOWER THEIR
PRICES
THE IDEA IS THAT IF THE COUNTRY STARTS TO
RECOVER, THEN THE COUNTRY WILL THEN
REDUCE PUBLIC SPENDING

J H Blackmore

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CCF: CO-OPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH

FEDERATION
1932: UNDER J. S. WOODSWORTH
DISSOLVED IN 1961
GOAL: END THE GREAT DEPRESSION BY WORKING COOPERATIVELY
PRAIRIE SUCCESS
WANTED: UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE,
WORKERS COMPENSATION
PROCEEDED BY THE NDP

J. S. Woodsworth

A NEW WORLD ORDER

TOTALITARIANISM

DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN

CANADA THERE WERE SURGES FOR
COMMUNIST PARTIES
POLITICAL PROBLEMS FOLLOWING WWI
MEANT THAT IN EUROPE DURING THE
GREAT DEPRESSION OPENED THE DOOR
TO DICTATORSHIPS

WHAT IS IT?

TOTALITARIANISM:
- REFERS TO AN UNDEMOCRATIC SYSTEM
- THE GOVERNMENT DEMANDS TOTAL
OBEDIENCE FROM ITS CITIZENS
- GOVERNMENT RUNS ALL ASPECTS OF
THE COUNTRY

RUSSIA
JOSEF STALIN
TOOK OVER THE COMMUNIST PARTY
FOLLOWING LENINS DEATH IN THE 1920S
CREATED AN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM THAT
FAILED THE PEOPLE
PURGES AND DEPORTATIONS
FORCED LABOUR

ITALY

BENITO MUSSOLINI
FASCIST GOVERNMENT
USED MILITARY POWER TO TAKE DOWN DEMOCRACY

GERMANY

ADOLF HITLER
STARTED GATHERING SUPPORT IN 1923
HIS NAZI (NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY)
TOOK CONTROL OF GERMANY IN 1933
AT THE HEIGHT OF THE DEPRESSION

THINK PAIR - SHARE

1. WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF A TOTALITARIAN REGIME

DURING A DEPRESSION? WHY?
2. COULD A COMMUNIST TOTALITARIAN REGIME HAVE HELPED CANADA
DURING THE DEPRESSION? HOW?