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All Canadian Content Articles — 2002

Dec 17, 2002 — News Article: Too many channels, too few viewers: not the best of years for Canadian TV

Friends believes CRTC must require broadcasters to produce Canadian drama

Dec 6, 2002 — News Article: Camp Award links media to democracy by Sean Patrick Sullivan

Dalton Camp Award will encourage young people to think about the link between journalism and democracy

Dec 6, 2002 — News Article: Broadcasting group launches award

Dalton Camp Award will encourage young people to think about the link between journalism and democracy

Dec 6, 2002 — News Article: Prize honours journalist by Richard Duplain

Dalton Camp Award will encourage young people to think about the link between journalism and democracy

Nov 29, 2002 — News Article: Remove foreign ownership limits: cable firms by Ian Jack

Friends believes relaxing cable foreign ownership restrictions will hurt Canadian content, disadvantage ordinary Canadians

Nov 28, 2002 — Policy Brief: Oral Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage Round Table on Foreign Ownership in the Cable Industry

Remarks by to Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to oppose easing foreign ownership restrictions on cable companies

Aug 30, 2002 — News Article: Canadians' national pride rising: poll by Tony Atherton

Friends’ poll indicates Canadians have high degree of nationalism, confidence in CBC

Aug 11, 2002 — Opinion Poll: Broadcasting Issues and Canadian Public Opinion

Addresses Canadian culture and content, the CBC, and media concentration

May 17, 2002 — News Article: View from West travelled from Toronto [Letter to the Editor] by Geoffrey Elliot, Vice-president, Corporate Affairs, CanWest Global Communications Corp

CanWest claims Friends statistics are incorrect, and CBC creates less viewing of Canadian programs than Global does.

May 16, 2002 — News Article: CanWest hypocritical in attack on CBC by Maggie Siggins

Private broadcasters demand subsidies and concessions without producing a corresponding increase in Canadian programming

Mar 22, 2002 — News Article: Broadcasters want to air prescription drug ads by Chris Cobb

Private broadcasters seek extra revenue they say they’ll direct towards Canadian programming

Mar 21, 2002 — News Release: CAB attempts to mislead Parliament

To obtain financial breaks for their members, Canadian Association of Broadcasters is misleading Parliament with statistics inflating private broadcasters’ Canadian content

Mar 21, 2002 — News Article: Private broadcasters want rebates, rule changes to help fund Canadian content by Jim Brown

Private broadcasters seek extra revenue they say they’ll direct towards Canadian programming

Mar 16, 2002 — News Article: Taking aim at the CBC by Antonia Zerbisias

Critics who claim the CBC is irrelevant ignore its essential functions

Mar 13, 2002 — Policy Brief: Submission to CRTC re Craig Broadcasting Applications [PN CRTC 2002-6, Item 3]

Friends endorses Directors Guild, Writers Guild comments urging CRTC to reject move by MTV to acquire control of Connect, Music 5

Mar 3, 2002 — News Article: The Last Chapter is a very scary ride by Antonia Zerbisias

While Global’s new miniseries The Last Chapter is an excellent drama, its reality fare is poor Canadian content.

Feb 28, 2002 — Fact Sheet: CanWest Facts (pdf 96KB)

Data concerning CanWest’s record on simulcasting, broadcasting little Canadian content, and spending subsidies on foreign programming

Feb 2, 2002 — News Article: The great unwatched

The CBC is an expensive specialty service with a low audience share and should be closed for good

Feb 2, 2002 — News Article: CBC says former executive who wants TV service shut down is out of touch by John McKay

Former Radio Canada International director says CBC has become specialty service, should be shut down and redesigned

Jan 26, 2002 — News Article: So Izzy really happy? by James Adams

Izzy Asper has recently had to contend with disagreements regarding “minitorials” on Global National, as well as a defamation suit

Jan 22, 2002 — News Article: Local antihero by Etan Vlessing

Ian Morrison doesn’t mind making adversaries while lobbying for Canadian content