OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Broadcasters said today that Global Edmonton news anchor Lynda Steele will be the 2007 recipient of the Gold Ribbon Award for Outstanding Community Service by an Individual Broadcaster.
Steele is passionately committed to community service, says the CAB, particularly in promoting literacy. “While Lynda has a special fondness for events that promote literacy, she has thrown herself behind several causes. She has been at the forefront of efforts to raise awareness about domestic violence, fundraise for cancer research, and find affordable housing solutions for Edmonton’s less fortunate,” says the CAB release.
She is…
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OTTAWA – Rémi Racine has been appointed to the board of directors of the CBC), Josée Verner, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, announced today.
"Mr. Racine’s credentials will make him an excellent member of the Board of Directors of the CBC," said Minister Verner. "I am confident that his experience will greatly benefit the CBC."
Racine has been president, CEO and executive producer of Artificial Mind and Movement (A2M), a creator and developer of 3-D interactive video games, since 1999. From 1996 to 1999, he was CEO and executive producer of Behaviour Interactive and…
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MONTREAL – Telefilm Canada announced today that Michel Roy has been named chair of the corporation’s board. The announcement was made by Josée Verner, Minister of Canadian Heritage.
Roy takes over from Fil Fraser, who has served as interim chair of Telefilm since February 2007.
“Michel Roy’s experience in public administration and his interest in the arts, television, music, and writing will make him an invaluable asset to Telefilm and the Canadian industry,” said Wayne Clarkson, Executive Director of Telefilm. “Our team welcomes him with great enthusiasm.”
Roy has a master’s degree in public administration from the Université du…
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OTTAWA – Federal Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion today announced new critics on the opposition side of the House of Commons, which is to resume sitting next week.
In as Canadian Heritage critic is Mauril Belanger, who replaces former actress Tina Keeper, who was dropped from the shadow cabinet altogether.
Belanger, the MP for Ottawa-Vanier, previously served as Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister responsible for Democratic Reform and Associate Minister of National Defence. In May 2005, the Prime Minister asked him to assume additional duties as Minister for…
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TORONTO – Brian Anthony was named Monday as the new national executive director and CEO of the Directors Guild of Canada at the organization’s annual awards gala in Toronto.
He will assume the position on November 12.
“Brian has extensive experience in the cultural sector and understands our position on protecting and advancing the Canadian film and television industry. I believe he has the right complement of skills and experience to successfully serve this membership,” said DGC president Alan Goluboff.
Anthony’s three-decades-long career includes stints as executive director of the Heritage Canada Foundation, consultant to a number of cultural…
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OTTAWA – New technologies. New platforms. The new consumer. New business models.
Delegates to the annual Canadian Association of Broadcasters convention will have some meaty issues to tackle when they gather in Ottawa November 4th – 6th.
The theme is “Broadcasting, Redefined”, and CAB President and CEO Glenn O’Farrell says the two-plus days of workshops and informal discussions will focus on issues of fundamental importance to Canada’s private broadcasting sector.
On the agenda: • The impact of new technologies and platforms, including broadband, the Internet, high-definition television, and digital radio; • The new consumer, whose needs and expectations are…
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OTTAWA – Canada has a number of newly reassigned cabinet ministers today, including new Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages Minister Josée Verner and new Industry Minister Jim Prentice.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a cabinet shuffle today that saw nine ministries gain new bosses. Click here for the Globe and Mail story on the whole shuffle.
As we reported last week, the two ministers with oversight of the Canadian cable, radio, television and telecom industries were shuffled to new gigs. Now-former Heritage Minister Bev Oda was reassigned and is Minister of International Co-operation while star cabinet…
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OTTAWA – The one thing most everyone agrees on is that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be announcing a Cabinet shuffle early next week.
According to multiple reports, all ministers have been told to be in Ottawa this weekend and next week, meaning that the PM may have major changes in mind and not just some minor tweaking (Gordon O’Connor is certainly gone from National Defense, they say). But what will it mean for the two ministers overseeing the cable, radio, television and telecom industries?
Industry Minister Maxime Bernier, by any measure, has been a very successful minister who,…
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OTTAWA – Michel Morin, has been appointed as a CRTC commissioner, announced Bev Oda, minister of Canadian Heritage.
Morin has spent more than 34 years in broadcasting and has been a journalist, economic news editor, leader of a team of journalists, and, most recently, chief editor of television news for both Radio-Canada and the French language news network RDI.
"His career encompasses a broad range of assignments, including program anchor and research assistant in Ottawa; parliamentary correspondent in Québec City; foreign correspondent in Paris; and journalist, desk editor, and chief editor for the past 14 years in Montréal," reads…
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TORONTO – "The best that can be said about this report is that the Task Force has not recommended to scrap the CTF altogether," said ACTRA national executive director Stephen Waddell in a press release.
That, and it "will change the broadcast distribution regulations to ensure cable companies pay regularly into the fund," he said.
Waddell was talking about the CRTC’s Task Force Report on the Canadian Television Fund, released Friday, as reported by Cartt.ca. The task force, led by Commission vice-chair, broadcasting, Michel Arpin, confirmed the need for the fund’s existence, but called for massive changes in how…
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