How the CBC joined TV's golden age with Netflix

By etan vlessing

HEATHER CONWAY, CBC EXECUTIVE vice-president, English Services, likes drinking from the Netflix co-production tap.The pubcaster hit ratings gold with high-profile Netflix collaborations like Alias Grace and Anne as it grows its originals slate and on Thursday the CBC unveiled another upscale, internationally driven series co-produced with Netflix in Northern Rescue, which stars William Baldwin and Kathleen Robertson, for its 2018-19 schedule.The way Conway tells it, a CBC steadily breaking free of its traditional linear TV moorings and floating in an expanding digital space atop its new OTT app has found offering homegrown property – or talent-driven content to Netflix, Hulu...