>I can understand for commercial TV and radio, but there's always Internet for getting news.

There's that. Thanks for reminding me, I usually keep Jos Pols's news aggregator somewhere on my 3rd or 4th desktop and flip to it from time to time.

>I have to say that I found myself pretty privileged here in Canada with Radio-Canada because on TV, they have some commercials, but not that much and no commercials at all on radio.

I wish... even the so-called "public" radio has deteriorated to the point where its not-commercials take up a lot of time and become annoying. They still aren't shouting, but they are interrupting anything. A person calling the studio to talk with the guest gets to something really interesting, or one of the guests does, and then it's "sorry we don't have the time"... only to spend next two minutes talking about impossible programming made possible by X, or support coming from Y, xxing this and zzing that, and repeating their mission statements to the point where they became meaningless mantras. The only difference from the openly commercial radio is that they don't shout, and that I still haven't heard "at only nine ninety nine" (knock on wood).