Today, January 11, 2012, Shaw Media announced that they have put an application to the CRTC to launch a 24 hour news channel in British Columbia. The channel will draw on the resources of Shaw's flagship Global BC, and according to Shaw the channel will have a province-wide focus rather then just a Vancouver viewpoint.
I think the biggest challenge will be getting news reporters into the various locales. Maybe they should be encouraging participation by senior high school teens, and broadcast students from community colleges and universities to help out with that. For that matter, why not contact active youtubers throughout BC as well, since they are obviously capable of doing online work, and would only improve with practice.
rallypacific 1 month ago