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C-10: The Legal Issues II
After the technical Zoom issues were ironed out, the webinar began with a presentation by Konrad von Finckenstein, past president of the CRTC and commissioner…
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VANCOUVER, WINNIPEG and TORONTO — Ayasew Ooskana Pictures, APTN and CBC/Radio-Canada announced today production has begun on the new original five-part drama and feature film Bones of Crows, created by award-winning writer, director and producer Marie Clements.
Casting was also announced for the character-driven series, which will star Grace Dove (above, Monkey Beach) as Cree matriarch Aline Spears who “survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse,” reads a press release.
“She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a…
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Staff changes also made at Canadian Heritage
By Denis Carmel
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has officially announced his new(ish) Cabinet.
In a ceremony at Rideau Hall Tuesday, Trudeau appointed Pablo Rodriguez as Minister of Canadian Heritage. Rodriguez was government house leader until dissolution and had been Heritage Minister between 2018 and 2019. His predecessor, Stephen Guilbeault, is now the Minister of Environment and Climate Change.
Rodriguez is the third (or fourth if you count his previous passage) Heritage Minister to come from Montréal.
Trudeau also appointed Gudie Hutchings from Newfoundland and Labrador as Minister of Rural Economic Development. The Prime…
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Also “unconstitutional” and “presumptuous”
It seems to be a law of human nature to take the fastest available remedy to rid oneself of an immediate problem, only to find that the remedy is worse than the original problem. Think of the German High Command sending Lenin to Russia in 1917. That worked, for Russia imploded in revolution, but the consequences turned out not quite as foreseen at the time, particularly for Germany.
So it is with the government’s online harms proposals. These were put out for consultation during the election and the responses have not been made public. Possibly…
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Government will not publish submissions received
By Amanda OYE
GATINEAU, QC – Comments submitted to the federal government’s consultation into harmful content online highlight a multitude of issues with its proposals for addressing the issue as well as with the consultation process itself.
The submissions to the consultation are not easy to come by. The deadline for comments passed in September, but the government decided it would not publish the ones it received.
A spokesperson for Canadian Heritage told Cartt.ca via email the submissions will only be available if an Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) request is made because the submissions…
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Broadcaster has also taken equity position in cannabis company
TORONTO – ZoomerMedia affiliate CARP, an advocacy association for aging Canadians, announced today an exclusive partnership with Opticann by Heritage, a cannabis company that offers innovative medical cannabis products.
In conjunction with this, ZoomerMedia, CARP and Opticann will create tailored education for CARP members through ZoomerMedia’s TV, radio, print and digital channels, according to a press release. The includes VisionTV, The New Classical FM, Zoomer Radio, and Zoomer Magazine.
“Understanding the utility of medical cannabis is increasingly important to older Canadians for the treatment of conditions including chronic pain, anxiety and lack of…
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TORONTO — Women in Film and Television–Canada Coalition (WIFT-CC), in conjunction with Reel Families for Change Canada, yesterday released the results of their Family Care Report, a cross-Canada survey that examines the impact of Covid-19 on child and family care for women working in the Canadian film and TV production industry.
“The report concludes the federal government should immediately call for an industry round table to begin discussions with unions and employers on the goal of implementing changes to federal labour tax credit policy to support childcare and family care by 2024, while simultaneously addressing the critical need to implement…
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Panelists talk C-10, competition and of course, the Rogers/Shaw deal
By Lynn Greiner
TORONTO – Every ISP Summit, a highlight session is the regulatory panel. The CRTC always seems to generate enough controversy to make the panel entertaining as well as interesting.
This year was no different.
Moderated by Monica Auer, executive director of the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications, the panel featured two CRTC alumni who are less than impressed with the way the organization has operated recently.
Konrad von Finckenstein, a consultant and arbitrator, was CRTC chair from 2007 to 2012, and Timothy Denton, now chairman of the Internet…
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By Christopher Guly
OTTAWA – As his Liberal government begins its third mandate, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could either fill key cabinet roles in Heritage and Industry with fresh faces or stick with the status quo – as he has already by leaving in place Chrystia Freeland as deputy prime minister and finance minister, according to Parliament Hill watchers.
Sheila Copps, a former deputy PM who served as minister of the newly created department of Canadian Heritage from 1996 to 2003, would like new leaders recruited for her old job and to head Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED).
Her…
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Production starts on Marie Clements’ Bones of Crows for CBC
Trudeau’s Cabinet features new(ish) Heritage Minister, returning ISED Minister
Letter to the Editor: Online harms proposals “preposterous”
Online harms consult: Submissions show concern over site-blocking proposal
Growing need for weed leads ZoomerMedia to help provide medical marijuana education
WIFT-CC report exposes need for equitable working conditions in Canada’s production industry
ISP Summit 2021: CRTC “obsessed” with facilities-based competition, regulatory panelist says
Heritage, industry portfolios could see new faces
