NDP urges Tory government to support multi-billion dollar arts industry
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011OTTAWA – The NDP wants the Conservative government to boost support for the country’s multi-billion dollar arts industry. A group of four New Democrat MPs with a background in the arts said they are forming a new culture caucus and asking the Tories to consider increased funding for the Canada Council for the Arts. They [...]
Canada culture anxiety
Monday, May 9th, 2011Conservatives could cut film, TV fundng By Brendan Kelly The election of the first majority Conservative government in Canada in more than 20 years has some industryites concerned it will cut funding for TV, film and the arts. Before the election the Conservatives, then a minority in the government, said that they intended to institute [...]
Where does Moore stand on funding for CBC?
Monday, May 2nd, 2011COQUITLAM NOW, April 27, 2011 Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, parliamentary secretary to James Moore, minister of Canadian heritage, publicly pondered about cutting all funding to the CBC. His words were: “Maybe it’s time we get out of the broadcasting business … the $1.1 billion, plus a whole bunch of other stuff that we’re investing [...]
Harper government, enemy of the arts?
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011By Jamie Portman, Postmedia News OTTAWA — Liberal, NDP and Green Party representatives were there. Even Communist and Marijuana candidates made it to Ottawa’s Cube Gallery last week for an all-party debate on arts policy. But there was no Conservative representation — and should we be surprised? A couple of nights later, the Canadian Conference [...]
Quebecor smearing CBC: president
Friday, December 10th, 2010CBC president Hubert Lacroix took aim Tuesday at competitor Quebecor Inc., alleging the company is using its journalists to “smear” the public broadcaster in the media and in the courts. Quebecor’s newspapers, which include the national Sun chain, has been publishing articles and editorials attacking spending at the CBC and criticizing the broadcaster’s handling of [...]
Michael Ignatieff: An open letter from Norman Lebrecht
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Dear Michael Ignatieff As a former colleague of yours on the BBC’s Late Show in the 1990s, I want to draw your attention to a Canadian phenomenon which, though you are not yet prime minister, can be significantly remedied by your intervention. There may even be some votes in it. You can guess what I’m [...]
Graeme Hamilton: Quebec pop star attacks Anglos for cuts to culture
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Posted: September 23, 2008, 6:10 PM by Ronald Nurwisah canadian election, Conservatives, bloc Click on photo to watch Michel Rivard’s video (with subtitles) By Graeme Hamilton MONTREAL — The lines were more clearly drawn back when Michel Rivard was breaking out as a pop star in 1970s Quebec. René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois were [...]