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CBC’s diminished news world

04/07/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher The CBC cut some more jobs last month. Where’s the news in that, you say? It was just 140 jobs, you say? Just a droplet in the bloodletting of 1500 jobs projected to be lost by 2020? Well sure, but besides the fact that another swack of people are out of work, […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Canada, Canadian Senate, CBC, CBC News, CRTC, digital media, Jean-Pierre Blais, Naheed Nenshi, online media, Pierre Juneau, PMO, Reform Party, Stephen Harper, Toronto, Vancouver

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

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

Immersed in the oil sands

03/18/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten “Fort McMurray, city of excess,” says the voice-over in the trailer for Fort McMoney. The documentary video game, produced by the National Film Board and the Montreal-based game developer TOXA, allows users to take control of the boomtown, and determine the virtual fate of the oilsands. Combining real footage and interviews with […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Alberta, film, Fort McMurray, money, National Film Board, new media, online gaming, online media, tar sands, video games

Open season on critics

09/13/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Zoe Grams Fringe, film fest and publishing season is upon us – a time when the smell of suntan lotion lingers as we push into theatres. But it’s the critics, not just the performers, who are making headlines. With 76 events in the Vancouver Fringe, more than 100 in the Toronto International Film Festival, […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, film, literature, Media, online media, theatre

Terry Fallis gets it all wrong, brilliantly

07/02/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young Somebody has to tell Terry Fallis how publishing works. When he couldn’t find a publisher for his debut novel – the story of a reluctant campaign manager managing an even more reluctant candidate for the Parliament of Canada — Fallis released his story a chapter at a time as a podcast series […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books, Leiren-Young Tagged With: books, CBC, iTunes, Leacock Award, McClelland & Stewart, online media, publishing, Terry Fallis

Postmedia: The way the words end

06/22/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Zoe Grams Many arts supporters are just regaining their breath after the cuts, no cuts, debacle around the Literary Press Group of Canada, which sent waves of disbelief and frustration across the publishing community. But it’s not time to celebrate yet; now the Postmedia Network has announced a slew of job cuts at Canada’s […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, dance, newspapers, online media, Postmedia, Vancouver Sun, visual arts

I can’t hear you because I’m talking (talking) (talking)

04/11/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher In our Politics section right now you’ll find Alison@Creekside‘s response to MP Stephen Woodworth’s Motion 132, which asks Parliament to examine the definition of a human being under Canadian law. Alison doesn’t like his initiative, to say the least. I don’t think I like it either — it seems like a weaselly […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: abortion, Canada, Canadian politics, online media, Stephen Woodworth

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

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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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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...]

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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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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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