The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that many Canadians experienced a brief pang of regret at the announcement this week that the CBC was backing out of Hockey Night in Canada, something it had been doing since 2014 under a sublicensing agreement with Rogers Communications. The Globe's Konrad Yakabuski writes that the demise of any 74-year-old tradition in Canadian broadcasting, even one that had largely become redundant in a sports-saturated media environment, is bound to evoke certain emotions. Faced with scarce resources and rapidly evolving viewership habits, CBC/Radio-Canada must define a small set of priorities and stick to them. That means radically rethinking its mandate in the 21st century media universe. Unfortunately, the report on CBC/Radio-Canada tabled this week by the Senate Transport and Communications committee does little to advance this objective. Despite hearing from more than 60 witnesses over the course of more than a year, all the honourable senators managed to deliver in their 67-page report was seven vaguely worded recommendations. As it is, CBC's bosses seem to exercise unlimited discretion in interpreting the mandate and no higher authority appears to ever hold them to account.