CRTC says “Take off, eh” to the extra 2 minutes

Its more than a little ironic that the CRTC picked this week to announce changes to the advertising rules in Canadian television broadcasting. As of September 2007, Canadian broadcasters will no longer be restricted to 12 minutes of commercial programming per hour, with as much as 14 minutes at their disposal. By September 2008, 15 [...]

A life well lived

Last night’s edition of The Hour on CBC contained the final TV interview for one of Canada’s most remarkable people. Dying of cancer, “Canada’s Conscience” June Callwood invited George into her home for a final chat with Canadian television media. It was a wonderful interview that was perhaps a bit more personal than I [...]

I was hungry, did you feed me?

I haven’t raved much about The Hour this year … I like their new format, and I continue to enjoy George’s direct style (I do wish he’d get a bit more in-depth in some cases, but in others, he does fine), but he’s fallen into the curse of excellence … the expectations are so high, [...]

And now for something completely different …

With apologies to the Monty Python crew, I thought I’d switch gears a bit today and instead of writing a post as I normally do, I’d post a video I made recently as a submission to a contest for The Hour on CBC … a contest for the “Best Story Ever.” I haven’t heard back [...]

Season 3 of The Hour

The first week of the 3rd season of The Hour finished up last night, and it looks to largely be the show it was last season.  There were some changes in format over the summer, not least of which is a live studio audience (a bit strange for a new broadcast, and I’ll admit that [...]

Canadian Muslim Leaders call for Summit …

Just listening to a press conference on CBC Newsworld with leaders from CAIR-CAN … the Canadian Council on American Islamic Affairs, and they are calling on provincial and Federal governments to hold a summit on extremism in their community, and to help address those extremists in their midst's.  This attitude highlights what I see as [...]

Canada’s homegrown terrorists …

I've been holding off writing about this, waiting for more information to come out.  About the only thing I am certain of at the moment is that we don't know a lot of details, and that more details will emerge in the weeks and months to come.  For now, 12 adults and 5 youths are [...]

Stephan Harper and the Media

Imagine going into a meeting with colleagues on Monday morning, where you work, and responding to a question about your work by ignoring the questioner and looking to someone else in the meeting, or worse yet, by getting up and walking out, declaring that your colleagues are out to get you.  Imagine going into a [...]

CBC News – The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulous

CBC News – The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulous
Just a quick shout out for the new web page.  Its a cool design I think … lots more info.  I gotta admit to being a tad disappointed that my link came down, but such is life, lol … was cool to get the traffic from there as [...]

The Closer by George … on Ticketmaster auctions …

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Last night George closed off the show (and for the record George, I was one of your 2 viewers that wasn't watching Idol or hockey for the live broadcast, lol) with discussion of a new idea by Ticketmaster to auction off seats for concerts, regardless of the face value of the ticket. They say [...]