For the third consecutive year, CBC has scored an extra $60 million from the Ministry of Canadian Heritage. Sheila Copps, the heritage minister, confirmed in Toronto earlier this month that the funding, for special cultural programming, would be tacked on to the $997.5 million already allotted for the network in the recent federal budget.

‘The reason it wasn’t in the previous estimates is it’s kind of the bureaucratic way they table money issues,’ Copps told reporters. According to an Ottawa spokesperson, The network has not yet determined how it will allot the funds.