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Just don’t call it Radio Drama

04/10/2016 by the editor 1 Comment

By Frank Moher The CBC has been given its money back. That is to say, the immediate infusion of $75 million announced in the Liberals’ budget last month, plus the promise of a $150 million increase each year through 2021, more than makes up for the money leached from it by the Conservatives. Various ideas have […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: audio, Canada, Canadian culture, Canadian media, Canadian television, CBC, CBC Radio, Conservatives, digital media, Hubert Lacroix, Liberals, Melanie Joly, radio, theatre

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

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

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

Alice Cooper, Canadian icon

09/21/2014 by the editor 1 Comment

By Frank Moher Did I miss the part where Alice Cooper became a Canadian? Because otherwise, HBO Canada’s new doc Super Duper Alice Cooper appears to mark some strange turning point in Canadian film funding. And believe you me, this is a Canadian film — at least if its list of financiers is anything to […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Canadian film, Canadian Media Fund, Canadian television, Conservatives, Department of Canadian Heritage, film, HBO Canada, music, Ontario Media Development Corporation, rock, Rogers, Telefilm Canada, television, Toronto

Who will tell the CRTC a good story?

09/17/2014 by the editor 1 Comment

By Jim Henshaw Last week, it appeared that CRTC Chair Jean-Pierre Blais had found himself in a socially awkward position. The Writers Guild of Canada had presented their clear and cogent argument on the quality and appeal of Canadian made television. It wasn’t anything Blais hadn’t heard before. And maybe he was tired or maybe […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Canadian c, Canadian television, CRTC, Pierre Blais, television, writing

Online, and off the radar

09/10/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Watch much Canadian TV? Watch many web series? For most Canadians the answer to both of those questions is most likely, “Not a lot.” So naturally the best way to increase the viewership for both is to fuse them together into one super, unstoppable, non-watched force, right? Wait . . . that […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: business, Canada, Canadian television, CRTC, internet, internet television, online media, online video

Programmed by Facebook

07/02/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw This week the President of the CBC shared his vision of the future of our national broadcaster. It was a vague vision. Something about being leaner by thousands of jobs and less real estate, not overly committed to documentary projects or news and accessing audiences via social media and mobile instead of […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: business, Canadian television, CNN, digital media, Facebook, Hubert T. Lacroix, online media, social media, television, TV, twitter

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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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