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Bring on the Cancon: A review of cultural policy is long overdue

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Many thanks to culture ("heritage") minister Mélanie Joly for announcing a review of cultural policy. These reviews sometimes feel like the most ancient form of Canadian culture. This one is overdue. Why?

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Free advice for Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly
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Karl Nerenberg
| April 27, 2016

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Mélanie Joly, the Canadian Heritage Minister, is about to launch a national consultation with an ambitious goal: to rethink policies governing Canada's broadcasting, film and other cultural industries.

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November 30, 2015
| A podcast from the Community Media Convergence Conference in Ottawa November 22-24, 2015.
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The Interview: When other weapons fail, send in the media

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Sony and the big U.S. theatre chains have pulled The Interview -- about James Franco and Seth Rogen being tasked by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong-Un -- from release. It got taken out instead of Kim. Forget the victory of Cuba over U.S. policy after 67 years or the crisis of the ruble. Alan Dershowitz says, "North Korea has declared war on our first amendment." Direr still: "It's an attack on Christmas." Jeffrey Toobin, in the more restrained, liberal role on CNN alongside Dershowitz, says "It's even more serious." Who started this anyway?

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Cultural exception and state funding for the Quebec film industry
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Guillaume Hebert
| May 17, 2013

France and Québec have sealed alliances in the past to defend the principle of cultural exception. It essentially aims at limiting the effects of globalization within the cultural industry, already under Anglo-Saxon domination. State funding of the film industry has sparked a number of debates within both societies. We shall first identify what triggered these controversies on each side of the Atlantic before turning our attention more closely to the various issues debated in Québec.

It is worth first remembering that, in 2012, the people of both France and Québec rid themselves of right-wing governments and replaced them with centre-right (or left-wing neoliberal) political parties. In both cases, a fierce debate regarding rich tax exiles ensued.

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Save B.C. Film? Who from? What for?
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Michael Stewart
| January 28, 2013

There's been a lot of talk in British Columbia lately about #savebcfilm, a campaign rivalling the conviction and courage of #idlenomore and Chief Theresa Spence -- or maybe that's the screenplay currently undergoing heavy edits by the Hollywood North's focus groups. The pitch goes that B.C.'s film industry is facing imminent collapse if the province doesn't immediately increase the existing $285-million tax credit to an amount comparable to what's paid in Quebec, Ontario and Louisiana -- the industry standard in keeping key grips well-greased.

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Hill Dispatches: Heritage Minister joins the gang-up on CBC
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Karl Nerenberg
| November 8, 2011

Pity the poor CBC.

It gives pride of place to Kevin O'Leary, Don Cherry and Rex Murphy, all of whom get to freely express their generally right-of-centre views with alacrity. And yet, a good many Conservatives still think of the Corporation as some kind of left-wing conspiracy.

"One-sided caricature of itself"

CBC has been the subject of much chatter on Parliament Hill of late.

They have been talking about it at the Commons ethics committee (considering the controversy over CBC's resistance to Access to Information requests from Sun Media), at the Canadian Heritage committee, and in the House.

And that chatter has not been very friendly.

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