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
The slogan at the bottom of David Kahane‘s University of Alberta web page says it all: “Start Something.”Kahane certainly did. The associate professor of political science–specializing in democratic theory and practice–got an email Thursday from a friend, playwright Brad Fraser, outraged at something he’d read in the Globe and Mail. Attached was the story, “Tories
Holy Lord, Canadian TV is going all to Hell.News that the Tories are trying to sneak through a morals clause in a tax bill has put a chill into Canada’s creative community. In a nutshell, the Harper government has added a clause to Bill C-10, which is heading into a third reading before the senate,
No amount of monkey business seems to be able to save MVP. The steamy CBC drama scored 258,000 viewers Tuesday night, down 20,000 from the week before. This the same night CBC 8 p.m. lead-in The Rick Mercer Report soared to 1,025,000.Across the ice, the last half of MVP faced off against another Canadian production–the
Roger Catlin has always been one of the sharpest cats on the TV beat. On press tours, his questions from the floor can be counted on to penetrate through the thick haze of spin and mediocrity. His wry observations for The Hartford Courant are a daily must read for TV fans everywhere, thanks to his