From the Canadian Press:
Link: Marco Rubio asks CRTC to change Super Bowl ad policy
Former Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio is adding his voice to growing calls on Canada’s broadcast regulator to reverse a decision banning the substitution of Canadian ads over big-budget American spots during the Super Bowl. Continue reading.
From Kate Taylor of The Globe and Mail:
Link: Melanie Joly’s fight for Canadian culture is neither easy nor popular
Minister of Canadian Heritage Melanie Joly was in Paris this week doing exactly that, taking meetings with French and European culturecrats who can be counted on to understand Canada’s dilemma: How does a mid-sized power maintain any notion of cultural sovereignty in the face of the aptly acronymed FANG? (That’s Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google.) Continue reading.
From Denis McGrath for Cartt.ca:
Link: Reflections from the Writers’ Room: “He Rode a Blais-sing Saddle!â€
Did you hear the one where a six-figure-earning chair of the CRTC hijacked his own hearing to go after some guy who hurt his feelings on “The Twitter?â€
In the world of content creation it wasn’t the most important twist to come out of the group license renewal hearing last week, but it sure was the most surprising. Continue reading.
From Kate Taylor of The Globe and Mail:
Link: Ad-free CBC could serve as a rallying point for Canadian creativity
In an increasingly scattered but ever more Internet-dependent and globalized media environment, the country needs a public producer, curator and distributor to craft a powerful Brand Canada across all platforms, offering not only news, public affairs and documentaries, but also fiction, variety and arts programming. It needs an iconic institution to nurture and lead the cultural industries, a rallying point for Canadian creativity. Continue reading.
From The Writers Guild of Canada:
Canadian screenwriters bring our points of view to audiences at home and around the world. If we don’t tell our own stories, who will? In this video, Canadian screenwriter Bruce Smith talks about creating culture and inspiring Canadians.
