Uncle Jim's Vision of the Coming Trade War
JIM HENSHAW has got an amazing solution for both the becalmed bullshit of Canadian Television, and the trade-choking problems of the American stimulus.Save Local Tv, indeed.Stop the $700 million! ---So, it’s Saturday and I’m reading the morning paper – happy to be at the end of a week where it became clearer that not much is going to happen in the Canadian television business until this whole “carriage fees” issue gets

Yes, SmartAss, You Should Also Be Concerned About H1N1...
THE GOOD PEOPLE at the Actor's union, ACTRA, have prepped this vid sticking up for Canadian TV. With cable & broadcast in their death match, continued whisperings about relaxing the content rules for CMF funding, and a host of other reasons, it's the fight that never ends, and some of us are getting a little tired and disillusioned by it all, but what are you gonna do? We need the eggs.--for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com--

The Portable Doyle
IN JOHN DOYLE'S Globe column today, there's this small little phrase, talking about Reality TV: I think Battle of the Blades represents what we are. But So You Think You Can Dance Canada represents what we aspire to be.Yesterday, The Toronto Star -- a paper founded in a progressive spirit that lately has been seized by the spirit of Labour Trouble...announced it was going to be offering voluntary buyouts to

Border Extras
IN MY REVIEW for this week's The Border

It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, or Notes From a Secular Culture.
IT STARTED INNOCENTLY enough. A friend mused to me the other night that they wanted to get in there and get in on that Black Friday shopping craziness, and lamented that Canada didn't have the same tradition. Ah yes, the American Thanksgiving Friday