Under the Online News Act’s regulations, the CBC is entitled to up to $7 million of the $100 million Google is paying in annual compensation. My friend, and fellow Alberta publisher, Tim Shoults, wrote in the St. Albert Gazette, “CBC used that money last year to hire another 30 reporters in communities across Canada, which is great. The problem is, it’s not in places like Gibbons or Legal that have no community news, but towns like Red Deer and Medicine Hat, which already have daily newspapers, private TV stations, multiple radio stations and online news outlets. Towns like Banff, that are already served by community news outlets like our very own Rocky Mountain Outlook — a bureau they’re now expanding to two reporters. Better still, it’s poaching those reporters from community news companies — two last year from our company alone, offering wages we can’t even come close to, even with our new funding.”