Canadian Perspectives

Canadian Perspectives

OP-ED: If Canada believes in Canadian content, it must also believe in Canadian media

Submitted by Rod Schween, President, Pattison Media If Canada believes in Canadian content, it must also believe in Canadian media. Canada’s broadcasting system has rules for...

OP-ED: The Public Broadcaster Built the Local Digital Infrastructure. Private Radio...

I came across a thread on LinkedIn recently from someone in Canadian media, frustrated, making the case that CBC was crowding out local stations...

OP-ED: What Canadian Media-Tech Companies Think the Market Still Pays For

NAB Show is full of noise. Product theater. Category inflation. The usual claims about transformation. What makes the Canadian exhibitor list interesting is that it...

OP-ED: Paperwork becomes power on Sept. 1

Canada has spent a decade debating CanCon like it’s a cultural argument. The CRTC is now treating it like what it actually is: a...

OP-ED: Media is infrastructure, not content

Stories. Shows. Articles. Segments. Formats. The language is familiar, comforting, and increasingly misleading. Content is visible, culturally important, and emotionally resonant, but it is...

OP-ED: What the U.S. just lost and what Canada risks next...

We live in an age where it is hard to know who to trust, where social media bans trusted journalism, and where unregulated Artificial...

OP-ED: Neutrality is still a choice

Canadian media often describes its relationship with platforms as pragmatic neutrality. Be everywhere. Don’t over-commit. Stay platform-agnostic. Follow the audience. Avoid dependency by spreading risk....

OP-ED: Consultation Is Killing Media Velocity In Canada

Canadian media policy moves at the speed of consensus. Media markets move at the speed of product cycles. That gap is no longer survivable. Over...

OP-ED: CanCon Is Still Regulating the Wrong Scarcity

The JUNO Awards nominations arrive every year like a national pulse check. We scan the list, argue about snubs, celebrate the breakthroughs, and for...

The Quiet After WABE: A Reflection on Our Industry and Its...

The quiet after seeing over 375 of our friends at the WABE Media and Entertainment Technology Conference in Calgary this past month is finally...

Federal bolstering of CBC, print will not save local news, says...

While Tuesday's federal budget included a significant investment in new spending for film, television and the CBC, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) says...

Director of News and Community Content

Acadia Broadcasting is seeking an experienced, forward‑thinking leader to set and drive strategy for a modern, multi‑platform news and community content operation serving audiences...

TV of Tomorrow (TVOT) Show

For more than 20 years, the TV of Tomorrow (TVOT) Show has gathered the brightest minds in television, technology and the creative world —...

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