Have you heard the good news, Fort Mac? The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is expanding its bureau in the northern Alberta city, to peddle its anti-fossil fuel, pro-Liberal agenda in an area that produces the majority of Canada’s oil and hasn’t elected a Grit since Elvis Presley topped the charts.

The public broadcaster announced on Wednesday that it will hire up to 30 journalists to work in “underserved communities” throughout Canada. Expanding local news coverage is, of course, a good thing, but the only reason the CBC is able to do this is because it is pilfering an estimated $7 million a year from the $100 million that Google agreed to pay Canadian news publishers on an annual basis to remain exempted from the Online News Act.