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Tag: Culture
A new wave of B.C. small-town cultural renaissance
Reading Time: 4 minutes Let’s be honest, most of B.C.’s artistic community has always lived on the Gulf Islands, on Vancouver Island, up the Sunshine Coast, in Haida Gwaii rather than in Vancouver
The enduring legacy of maverick media baron Jim Shaw
Reading Time: 4 minutes A hard-nosed businessman, he made a brilliant cable territory swap, competed ferociously with Telus and pulled Global television from the Canwest inferno
Netflix next battleground in “protection” of Quebec culture
Reading Time: 3 minutes The protection of Quebec’s language and identity is so deeply ingrained in every francophone that nothing as petty as a technology revolution can deter its instincts
A more open CRTC is a great leap forward
Reading Time: 3 minutes The names of Commissioners appointed to public panels will now be made public two weeks prior to the commencement of the hearing
Your bills will go up – but don’t assume an insidious CRTC plot
Reading Time: 3 minutes The debate over internet, cable and mobile rates is far more complex than the Twitter universe reflects
World needs a Canadian perspective, steeped in small-town values
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our store of creative capital, entrepreneurial risk taking, peacekeeping and a welcoming attitude to folks ‘from away’ rooted in our small-town history
A museum opts for happy hippy love bugs instead of honesty
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibit mythologizes the 1960s by ignoring the dark ugliness masked by all those drug-addled smiles
Trudeau Liberals missing in action on Canada Day
Reading Time: 4 minutes Unless you live in the Ottawa region, you can be forgiven for wondering what the federal government did with your tax dollars on July 1, 2017
Cultural appropriation controversy is entirely about free speech
Reading Time: 3 minutes The only route to a better appreciation of the cultures in Canada is through exposure, questioning, expressing opinions – even if those opinions are wrong