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Nepean vs. Regina at the Emmy Awards tonight...

(AKA Sandra Oh vs. Tatyana Maslany)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/2018-emmys-what-to-watch-1.4825914

Current Mood: pleased

Here's the official announcement:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbc-to-cut-back-supper-hour-news-in-house-productions-1.2688409

The federal elections of 2015 cannot arrive soon enough. I just hope all the involved political parties can get full national slates of candidates put together in time.

Current Mood: angry

Some of you might be interested in this. James Daily and Ryan Davidson are co-authoring a weblog on the depiction of legal issues in pop culture in general, science fiction and fantasy in particular. Today, their eyes focused on one of Canada's better-known recent TV exports in that field, Orphan Black.

http://lawandthemultiverse.com/2014/05/01/orphan-black/

His opening essay from yesterday on Q.

http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2014/04/11/public-broadcasting-q-jian-essay/

I still want my CBC. No matter what my government currently wants.

Current Mood: determined

I find myself intrigued by some of the design decisions that went into these outfits for the Heroes of the North web video series.

Not sure what I think of a trench coat for Yellowknife, personally...

Current Mood: curious

For anyone with an interest in spec-fic planning to visit Ottawa during the first weekend in October...

http://www.can-con.org/2013/

Again, if you're interested: http://can-con.org/

Hoping to see some of you there over the weekend.

And if not this year, perhaps the next?

Current Mood: busy

What she says!

Originally posted by

popelaksmi at Celebration!

Ok, the secret is out.

It's now official: CANCON will be hosting Canvention 33 in 2013!

We're all pretty excited about this. :D

Although more than a year away, we do hope you can join us. CAN-CON in 2013 is simply going to be AMAZING!

More details to come, of course.

Current Mood: happy

CANCON-2012 Flyer Design, a photo by dwight_ew on Flickr.

A little bit of portfolio stuff re: an upcoming event...

If you want a higher-resolution edition, in order to help get the word out, I could upload that to a public-access folder on Dropbox.

Current Mood: busy

Justin Beach just posted an opinion piece on a new legal battle started up by several privately-owned "gatekeeper" companies against CBC Music, the new online music venture begun by the CBC.

I would object to his assessment in only one respect: The legal assault is not naive.

As for "misguided"...several of the involved parties, so I suspect, have long viewed CBC's mere existence as a threat and a rebuke to their business practices.

What say you?

Current Mood: worried

Specifically to this essay on Andrew's blog on his opinion about the proposed budget cuts aimed at CBC/Radio-Canada in the latest federal budget, particularly this point:

In an ideal world, the CBC wouldn't need to wade into the ratings battle with the commercial networks. The ideal would be for the CBC to be supported by television license fees, such as Japan's NHK, the BBC, and practically every other public broadcaster in the Anglosphere. But it would never fly, not now. Politicians in Metro Vancouver received death threats when they aired the possibility of taxing vehicles; what do you think the uproar would be if the government decided it was going to start taxing TVs?

Dare I say that I'd settle for a "point-of-first-sale only" levy on anything capable of receiving, storing, and replaying/retransmitting CBC content? That I'm willing to pay it myself?

Or would I be lynched for even admitting to that much?

Current Mood: scared

Note to

seanchaidh,

themoo37,

fajrdrako and anyone else interested: I think those of us wanting to see the above-mentioned Paul Gross movie had better move PDQ if we want to see it before the theatres pull it for being a CanConMovie!

Which theatres is it playing in again?

Current Mood: anxious

Well, from where your host sits, this counts as another act of rudeness on the part of Telefilm Canada's current upper management:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2010/02/20/telefilm-rules-change.html

It's a call for lack of confidence in our homegrown acting talent base, as far as I'm concerned. A call for our actors to lack in self-confidence as well. As if the process of trying to earn an honest living in the field of their dreams in their own country weren't hard enough for them.

Not quite sure which is the bigger error in logic, judgement and basic good manners.

You may have a different opinion, though.

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: CBC Radio One: Quirks and Quarks

Go read this. Now.

http://complicationsensue.blogspot.com/2008/12/good-times-bad-times-youre-fired.html

I just read the latest off of CBC Web News re: the Canadian Television Fund(CTF):

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2007/01/25/ctf-funding-response.html

As a Canadian citizen and a regular viewer of Canadian drama content on TV, I want you to cease and desist in this behaviour. You have responsibilities to the rest of us in this country as part of your licenses, and I expect you to honour them.

(Cross-posted to