Another week, another podcast. This time, CHML Talk Radio’s Scott Thompson and I get into the whole Bill C-10 debate. Sorta makes you nostalgic for the writers strike, doesn’t it? Make a game of it–take a drink every time the phrase “tax credit” is used. Listen up here.Meanwhile, here, from the home office in Ottawa,
People have been so busy defending Canadian TV shows they haven’t had as much time to watch. Overnight ratings estimates this week show Monday’s The Border was down a buck-20 to 590,000 viewers. The Week The Women Went scored 627,000 well down from the near-million the series flirted with a couple of weeks ago. Part
Really trying not to write about Bill C-10 everyday but it is the issue that won’t go away. Thinking of legally changing my name to Bill “C-10” Brioux–if I can get a tax credit.I really think the favorable world view of Canada as a tolerant society–especially in the area of the arts–is what is being
The premise behind New Amsterdam (premiering tonight at 9 p.m. on Fox) is both intriguing and far fetched. A Dutch soldier who rescues a Native-American girl back in the 17th century–when the island of Manhattan was known as New Amsterdam–is himself cut down in battle. A medicine woman, who has spiritual powers, throws a spell
As the anti-Bill C-10 Facebook site nears 20,000 members, the Ministry of Heritage is backpedaling faster than Roger Clemens at a lie detector test.Yesterday, Heritage Minister Josee Vernier, who was a no-show at last night’s Genie Awards in Toronto, issued this statement on the controversy surrounding the news last week that last minute amendments had
It’s a slam dunk: Semi-Pro star Will Ferrell won TV Feeds My Family’s latest reader poll, which asked, “Who should host next year’s Academy Awards?” The former SNL star, with 19% of the vote, emerged at the top of a pretty crowded field, with eight-time Oscar host Billy Crystal (15%) and red carpet maniac Gary
Pray for me. I’m scheduled to go toe-to-toe with Charles McVety, president of the Canadian Family Action Coalition, this afternoon on CHCH’s Live @ 5:30 with March Hebscher and Donna Skelly.McVety is the gent who took credit for successfully lobbying a couple of Harper government ministers and getting a last-minute morals clause snuck onto a
Nicholas Campbell is a bad pony player and a hell of an actor. He proves the latter again tonight in Part One of The Englishman’s Boy (8 p.m. on CBC). The other he admitted to Brian D. Johnson in a jaw-dropping read (“Nicholas Campbell explains how he threw it all away“) in the current issue