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Link: Canadian Cord-Cutting 6 Times Faster This Year Than Last

From Daniel Tencer of The Huffington Post:

Canadian Cord-Cutting 6 Times Faster This Year Than Last
Canadian TV providers are losing customers six times faster this year than they did last year, according to new research from Ottawa-based Boon Dog Professional Services.

The research firm’s latest study on TV subscribers found the country’s publicly-traded broadcasters lost a combined 113,000 subscribers in the first half of their fiscal year. That compares to a loss of 19,200 in the same period last year. Continue reading.

 

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Link: Dan for Prime Minister? Fred Ewanuick says he’d do great

From Melissa Hank of Canada.com:

Dan for Prime Minister? Fred Ewanuick says he’d do great
With the 2015 federal election underway, Corner Gas actor Fred Ewanuick is endorsing a latecomer for prime minister: Dan Phillips. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Ewanuick played the unwitting politician for two seasons in CTV’s comedy Dan for Mayor. Never mind that he’s fictional — Dan has an edge over the current crop of candidates, Ewanuick says. Continue reading.

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Bid now: Rick Mercer Report prize package

You can win four tickets to a taping of the Rick Mercer Report season 13 in Toronto between September and November 2015, plus a t-shirt (your choice of S/M/L), mug, cap and autographed book A Nation Worth Ranting About, courtesy the Rick Mercer Report.

All proceeds from the TV, eh? charity auction will go to Kids Help Phone — a free, anonymous and confidential phone and on-line professional counselling service for youth.

Bid here:

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