Month: December 2008
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Canadian Media Guild and CBC Reach Tentative Agreement
All I can say is I’m shocked, I was sure that this was going to be a long process and that it was going to be ugly, but there appears to be a tentative deal between the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that takes them through 2014 and avoids a…
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New Additions
Added to Cancasts and News and Politics: At the Barricades the Podcast of Lake Ontario Waterkeepers Added to Film and Television Cinemars: The blog of filmmaker Mars Hordyski.
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Dear Toronto, I Love You, Please Stop Sucking?
So I already mentioned earlier today that Torontoist is going out of business because it’s not as lucrative as the US cities that have blogs on the Gothamist network. What I said about that relates, in large part, to this: Last night I was at the premier of Toronto Stories at the Royal Cinema on…
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Torontoist to Close on January 1
According to a Dave Topping yesterday Torontoist, after thousands of posts and millions of visitors, is shutting down: At the end of this month, I will be stepping down as Torontoist’s Editor-in-Chief. I’ve loved everything about this job since I started it, and my decision to leave was not an easy one to make, but…
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Triple Album Coming from Joel Plaskett
CBC Radio 3 is reporting that Joel Plaskett is currently busy producing a new Two Hours Traffic disc. But come February (exact date unknown) he will release a three CD set entitled “Three” – each of the three discs will have 9 songs on it (3 x 3 songs = 9 x 3 CDs =…
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Sing Like a Dude
Calgary band the Dudes wants you to sing on a new song they are recording. Via their Myspace Blog: “hey y’all. the dudes are recording a new song with a wee sing along at the end. it would sure be super nice to have your voices on that track. you want to? you can hear…
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Blame the GG
You really cannot blame Stephen Harper for trying to fill the senate while Parliament isn’t in session. He is just being Stephen Harper: calculating, petty, opportunistic, undemocratic and hypocritical. The person you can blame is Governor General Michaëlle Jean – who gave a Prime Minister who clearly did not have the support of Parliament permission…
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Coming Up in Toronto
If you’re in Toronto and like live music you should really join this group:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98526750186If you’d like to help in poverty in the developing world by going to shows and having a few drinks – check it out. Thursday, December 11Wallace Halladay & Ryan Scott: LOUD Music for Saxophone & PercussionFacebook Event Page TWM Presents: Craft…
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Climate, Transit and Ticking Clocks
First off, how about that snowstorm? And the transit strike starting the very next day? I can’t help but wonder if maybe After listening to Gwynne Dyer last night at St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts before heading out into the Bad Weather before the Labour Storm hasn’t soured me a little on having sympathy…
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Michael Bloom on
Michael Bloom, of the Conference Board of Canada, gave a lecture at OCAD recently and Juliana Yau has all of the juicy details on her blog. This is just the tip of the iceberg: 2007 – direct impact $46.1billionover 3.8% of Canada’s real GDP -some countries include sports in their cultural GDP 2007 – indirect…