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The Video: Justin Trudeau, actor

02/06/2016 by the editor 2 Comments

In 2007, Justin Trudeau was an actor in the CBC docudrama The Great War, in which he played decorated Canadian soldier Talbot Papineau, and ignored W.C. Fields’ dictum never to act with children or animals. We’ll leave it to viewers to decide if he made the right career move by going into politics instead. As […]

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: Canada, Canadian television, Justin Trudeau, television, war, WWI

The fix for local TV

02/05/2016 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw We’re in an age of media decline. Last week, I posted my thoughts about what’s gone wrong with Canadian newspapers. But local TV in Canada is also losing viewers at an alarming rate. This week the CRTC was told that fully half of our local stations could be gone within the next […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Australia, Canada, Canadian television, CRTC, journalism, television

Triumph of the drama nerds

11/07/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at the pictures on this page), let me hasten to add that I have been proudly a drama nerd nearly all my […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, Justin Trudea, Stephen Colbert, television, theatre

Harper’s enablers at Maclean’s

08/06/2015 by the editor 4 Comments

By Frank Moher We’ve pretty much accepted the fact that, with things like the imaginatively named Fair Elections Act and the early election call, the PM is out to undermine democracy in Canada. We’re to the point that, if Harper announced he was calling off the election and had the Governor-General bound and gagged in a back room […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, CBC, City TV, Conservatives, CPAC, CTV, Global Television, John Tory, journalism, Kenneth Whyte, Maclean's, Mark Stevenson, Omni TV, Paul Wells, Progressive Conservatives, radio, Rogers, Stephen Harper, Ted Rogers, television, TVA

Who really fired Evan Solomon?

06/12/2015 by the editor 1 Comment

By Montreal Simon When Evan Solomon was appointed host of the CBC program “Power and Politics,” I didn’t think he would be able to fill the very large shoes of the departing Don Newman. He was missing about 30 years of journalistic experience. And although I was right, he gradually began to win me over, in […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Amanda Lang, Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian television, CBC, Conservatives, Evan Solomon, journalism, Nova Scotia, Rex Murphy, Stephen Harper, television

How Anne wooed me

05/03/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh Social media reaction to the unexpected death recently of Canadian actor Jonathan Crombie, who so memorably played Gilbert Blythe in Anne of Green Gables, came almost entirely from the distaff side. Not too many guys were fans of the movie, I guess. Well, I’m a fan. A big one. Like many of my gender, […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Canadian literature, Canadian television, literature, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Prince Edward Island, television, writers, writing

Dear CRTC: More Margaret Atwood won’t save Canadian TV

03/19/2015 by the editor 2 Comments

By Jim Henshaw A decade of boneheaded moves by Canada’s broadcast regulator, the CRTC, were the original inspiration for my  blog. And over its life I’ve repeatedly weighed in on just how dim-witted or out of touch our CRTC Commissioners have been with their decisions. The last was a couple of months ago with the first […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Apple TV, Canada, Canadian culture, Canadian film, CRTC, Jean-Pierre Blais, Margaret Atwood, Netflix, online media, television, writing

Mukbang: Eat, shoot, get rich

02/24/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw We’ve all had the (pleasure?) of having someone use Instagram, Twitter or Facebook to send us an image of what they’re about to have for lunch. Or dinner. Or breakfast. Or at 3:00 am after their local has closed and kicked them into the street. It’s an affliction I’ve never quite understood. […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Asia, Facebook, food, Instagram, internet, online media, social media, television, twitter

He wrote Canadian film into being

02/22/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw While writer muses come and go at their will, each of us is granted a mentor. Very early on I was lucky enough to be taken under the wing of the best screenwriter Canada has produced, John Hunter. I don’t remember how John and I first met. All I know is he […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Canadian film, Canadian television, film, screen, television, writing

The CBC is not its board

01/22/2015 by the editor 2 Comments

By Montreal Simon Ever since the CBC was hit by the Ghomeshi scandal, and now the Amanda Lang Affair, the CBC haters in this country have been having a ball. Trying to use the scandals as just another excuse to kill the corporation. For those Cons hate it so much with a zealotry that borders […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Amanda Lang, Canada, Canadaland, CBC, Jennifer McGuire, Jian Ghomeshi, journalism, Kathie Tomlinson, Peter Mansbridge, Stephen Harper, television

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

Rick Meyers in Nanaimo Pride Parade

My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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