Adverbs are not adjectives. Greek and Latin words are singular and plural. Canadians consider government to be a collective singular. But to a Canadian, police is a collective plural. The CBC prefers are .
Some people write or phone to challenge sloppy enunciation.
Then there are the pronunciations that everyone agrees to disagree about. Perhaps the longest-running battle over pronunciation at the CBC is the word kilometre . When Canada adopted the metric system of measurement in 1970 it established Metric Commission Canada to guide implementation. The commissioners included pronunciation of the various units of measurement as part of their mandate. The suffix is spelled metre .