Colin Parkinson
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I accept that democracy is flawed and imperfect, run by humans. At the moment it is the best we can hope for.
Trudeau Popularity - or not (various polling, etc.)
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Colin Parkinson
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This hour has 22 minutes take on his popularity
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I wasn't aware 22 Minutes was still a thing.
I think they are back for a bit. Probably due to an election year possibilityI wasn't aware 22 Minutes was still a thing.
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The degree to which this interview was shaped/coordinated/agreed and rehearsed notwithstanding, this was by most measures, a positive engagement for Trudeau. Credit to him for carrying it off as well as he did, as soft as the pitch was. If only the outcome of the last near tenth of a century were as positive as Trudeau’s own personal beliefs.
FSTO
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Matt Gurney of the line has some questions.
open.substack.com
Matt Gurney: In New York, the prime minister finds a safe space
A U.S. talk show is a place where the PM still gets credit for what he says, and not what he's done — and left undone.
open.substack.com
daftandbarmy
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OldSolduer
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Trudeau Senior or his bumbler son?
Halifax Tar
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From Angus Reid
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That's a beautiful thing. Let's hope it holds.
Halifax Tar
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If that was the final result of the next election I don't think yours would be only voice suggesting that.
ArmyRick
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I hear ya and kind of agree, but both leaders have egos that won't allow it to happen.
LPC: Ok, yeah, we’re a bit of a cult around JT.
Saanich and the Gulf Islands: Hold my gluten-free non-alcohol half-pint.
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There is, also, a substantial but, temporarily, silent wing of the Liberal Party that leans towards the Centre and, on some issues, even slightly right of centre. It will leave if the Libs and Dippers ever try to merge.
There its, also, a hard left wing of the NDP that would look with deep suspicion on a merged party.
ArmyRick
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Mr Grimey, sorry for my ignorance, but can you please explain it me? Seriously use puppets if you must, I don't get it.
ArmyRick
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Your talking about REAL Liberals like retired MP, Dan McTeague, journalist Warren Kinsella (who used to be Chretien campaigner) and Stephen LeDrew (former president of the LPC) who are dead against Trudeau and his brand and want to see a return of centre/centre-left Liberals.
I can tell you a recipe right now to boost popularity to some extent for the Liberals, have more sitting MPs speak up and even vote against their leader. They could save their asses possibility (by being the one who spoke against Trudeau) and send a clear message. There are many who won't vote because they have lost faith in both the LPC and what is sometimes the alternative, the NDP. Basically for the left, their is a ripe opportunity (the ones who will NEVER vote Conservative), neither side is exploiting it.
Right now, everything I see indicates that 90% of the LPC problem is their dim witted clueless leader who doesn't get it. The longer he stays on in the driver seat, the more the car is going deeper into the mud.
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The Empire Strike back, accordion to a report in yesterday's Globe and Mail:
PUBLISHED YESTERDAY UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO
The future of several professional development programs crucial to the health of the Canadian film and television industry is in jeopardy as Netflix Canada pulls sponsorship from a number of arts institutions in response to new investment measures laid out under the Online Streaming Act.
Various cultural organizations across the country learned last week that Netflix was pausing funding for a number of training and development initiatives. Since 2017, the year that the streaming giant established its Canadian production arm, Netflix has invested more than $25-million in such programs, helping further the careers of more than 1,200 Canadian writers, directors, producers and performers.
“This is extremely disappointing as Netflix was a significant and founding supporter of the Pacific Screenwriting Program, in line with their commitment to Canadian talent development,” said Camilla Tibbs, executive director of Vancouver’s PSP, whose flagship Scripted Series Lab has for the past six years launched the careers of emerging B.C. screenwriters, particularly diverse voices.
At Hot Docs, which is currently undergoing an organizational restructuring while facing a series of financial setbacks, organizers said that without Netflix’s support, they may have to discontinue three programs: Canadian Storytellers Project, CrossCurrents Doc Funds, and Incubator Labs, which have collectively supported hundreds of filmmakers’ careers.
And at the imagineNATIVE Institute, where Netflix has funded upward of 90 per cent of the organization’s year-round development programs, the streamer has indicated that any resources beyond 2025 are in doubt.
“I’ve been very grateful for their support, which since 2020 has been able to help more than 50 Indigenous professionals working in the screen media,” said Naomi Johnson, imagineNATIVE’s executive director. “All of us running not-for-profit arts organizations are contending with rising costs, so this now means more hustling in the private sector. And the pure volume of work in that kind of fundraising is exhausting.”
The shift comes as Netflix and other foreign-owned streaming services are being compelled by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to contribute 5 per cent of their annual domestic revenues to support production in the Canadian screen sector as part of the Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11). In July, the Motion Picture Association-Canada, which represents Netflix as well as such Hollywood studios as Disney and Paramount, launched dual legal challenges in Federal Court over the CRTC measures.
In an unsigned statement regarding the pause in program funding, representatives for Netflix Canada said that “despite our long-standing commitment, the government has chosen not to acknowledge our substantial support for the Canadian film and TV sector. Consequently, we will be unable to continue funding many of the programs that have come to rely on our backing, as we are now required to allocate resources to meet the CRTC’s new investment mandate.”
Charles Thibault-Béland, press secretary for Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge, said in a statement that Netflix has known for the past five years that it would have to invest in Canadian content. “Netflix is unfortunately thumbing its nose at the Canadian cultural sector, instead of investing in a market that has benefitted them for a long time.”
In a November, 2023, CRTC public hearing, during which Netflix noted that it spends more in Canada on partnerships for the career advancement of creators than anywhere else in the world, Dean Garfield, vice-president of global public policy for the streamer, said that there needed to be flexibility in how the government recognizes its contributions to the local screen sector.
“If you develop a system that limits the areas or the funds to which those resources are directed, then in some respects you’re creating a zero-sum game where you may have to move away from the relationships, partnerships that we built over time, and we certainly don’t want to do that,” Garfield said.
Angela Heck, executive director of the Whistler Film Festival Society, whose producers and screenwriters labs are now at risk over Netflix’s decision, noted that the streamer has been a supportive partner since 2018, with its contributions in some years funding up to 50 per cent of its program costs.
“They’re just responding to the ambiguity of the current legislation,” said Heck. “I think it’s not clear under current guidelines whether or not something like training initiatives are eligible expenditures. Maybe we don’t do a good enough job tooting our own horn as to how important these programs actually are.”
Like other arts leaders, Heck is concerned about not only the future of her organization’s programs but also the longer-term consequences for an industry already under economic stress.
“I’m nervous about the knock-on effects,” she said. “I always talk about the training programs as being the farm team. You can give funding to producers all you want, but if you don’t train people and bring them up through the system, we won’t have people who can succeed.”
Unintended consequences and all that.
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Netflix pulls sponsorship of development programs across Canadian arts institutions in wake of C-11 measures
BARRY HERTZPUBLISHED YESTERDAY UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO
The future of several professional development programs crucial to the health of the Canadian film and television industry is in jeopardy as Netflix Canada pulls sponsorship from a number of arts institutions in response to new investment measures laid out under the Online Streaming Act.
Various cultural organizations across the country learned last week that Netflix was pausing funding for a number of training and development initiatives. Since 2017, the year that the streaming giant established its Canadian production arm, Netflix has invested more than $25-million in such programs, helping further the careers of more than 1,200 Canadian writers, directors, producers and performers.
“This is extremely disappointing as Netflix was a significant and founding supporter of the Pacific Screenwriting Program, in line with their commitment to Canadian talent development,” said Camilla Tibbs, executive director of Vancouver’s PSP, whose flagship Scripted Series Lab has for the past six years launched the careers of emerging B.C. screenwriters, particularly diverse voices.
At Hot Docs, which is currently undergoing an organizational restructuring while facing a series of financial setbacks, organizers said that without Netflix’s support, they may have to discontinue three programs: Canadian Storytellers Project, CrossCurrents Doc Funds, and Incubator Labs, which have collectively supported hundreds of filmmakers’ careers.
And at the imagineNATIVE Institute, where Netflix has funded upward of 90 per cent of the organization’s year-round development programs, the streamer has indicated that any resources beyond 2025 are in doubt.
“I’ve been very grateful for their support, which since 2020 has been able to help more than 50 Indigenous professionals working in the screen media,” said Naomi Johnson, imagineNATIVE’s executive director. “All of us running not-for-profit arts organizations are contending with rising costs, so this now means more hustling in the private sector. And the pure volume of work in that kind of fundraising is exhausting.”
The shift comes as Netflix and other foreign-owned streaming services are being compelled by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to contribute 5 per cent of their annual domestic revenues to support production in the Canadian screen sector as part of the Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11). In July, the Motion Picture Association-Canada, which represents Netflix as well as such Hollywood studios as Disney and Paramount, launched dual legal challenges in Federal Court over the CRTC measures.
In an unsigned statement regarding the pause in program funding, representatives for Netflix Canada said that “despite our long-standing commitment, the government has chosen not to acknowledge our substantial support for the Canadian film and TV sector. Consequently, we will be unable to continue funding many of the programs that have come to rely on our backing, as we are now required to allocate resources to meet the CRTC’s new investment mandate.”
Charles Thibault-Béland, press secretary for Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge, said in a statement that Netflix has known for the past five years that it would have to invest in Canadian content. “Netflix is unfortunately thumbing its nose at the Canadian cultural sector, instead of investing in a market that has benefitted them for a long time.”
In a November, 2023, CRTC public hearing, during which Netflix noted that it spends more in Canada on partnerships for the career advancement of creators than anywhere else in the world, Dean Garfield, vice-president of global public policy for the streamer, said that there needed to be flexibility in how the government recognizes its contributions to the local screen sector.
“If you develop a system that limits the areas or the funds to which those resources are directed, then in some respects you’re creating a zero-sum game where you may have to move away from the relationships, partnerships that we built over time, and we certainly don’t want to do that,” Garfield said.
Angela Heck, executive director of the Whistler Film Festival Society, whose producers and screenwriters labs are now at risk over Netflix’s decision, noted that the streamer has been a supportive partner since 2018, with its contributions in some years funding up to 50 per cent of its program costs.
“They’re just responding to the ambiguity of the current legislation,” said Heck. “I think it’s not clear under current guidelines whether or not something like training initiatives are eligible expenditures. Maybe we don’t do a good enough job tooting our own horn as to how important these programs actually are.”
Like other arts leaders, Heck is concerned about not only the future of her organization’s programs but also the longer-term consequences for an industry already under economic stress.
“I’m nervous about the knock-on effects,” she said. “I always talk about the training programs as being the farm team. You can give funding to producers all you want, but if you don’t train people and bring them up through the system, we won’t have people who can succeed.”
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Unintended consequences and all that.
RangerRay
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I think Mr. Campbell is referring to the eastern corporate oligarchs who the Liberals really represent. I don’t think the Desmarais, Irvings or bankers, CEOs,and blue chip law firms from the Golden Triangle would ever support an NDP or even a centre-right populist party. They might support a Tory party if it was led by “their kind of Tory” but not one led by Poillievre. And Poilievre would be best to stay away from their support unless he wants the CPC to become the LPC.
RangerRay
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Good. The quicker they realize that foreign streaming companies won’t tolerate this cultural shake-down, the better.
