SpankyMcFarland

If pipelines were easy to organize in Canada, JT would have no work to do. Actually, they are up there major military purchases in being almost impossible at this point, not quite as hopeless as constitutional reform but not far off.

How many years has Trudeau been PM?

https://ipolitics.ca/2016/09/02/chong-accuses-leitch-of-dog-whistle-politics/ I can't see Leitch ever becoming PM and find her an odd match for politics. She's a talented person but charisma is not her strong point.

Some are 'involved' as victims: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/homicide-overbrook-stabbing-1.3459610 Is the person accused here a Muslim? Regarding Ottawa gang shootings, are the perpetrators or victims randomly distributed across the Muslim community? Do we have Afghan, Indonesian or Bosnian stories or something more specific? I am hearing about Somali issues in Ottawa quite a bit now.

I prefer the Dutch approach: this is who we are, so let's be clear you understand what you have signed up for. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/world/europe/16iht-dutch-5852942.html?_r=0

Psychology is not an exact business. Any permanent resident of Canada who was refused citizenship on the basis of these extremely ingenious questions would be suing all the way to the Supreme Court on the basis of discrimination disguised as science. The lawyers would have a field day.

The questions would have to be very basic and command near unanimous agreement. I could see much litigation arising from this. One of the refreshing aspects of interviewing foreign medical grads compared to their Canadian peers is their candour. Some of them will actually admit that they want to make money and stay in the big city when they finish. I think such screening would make foreigners lie like Canadians.

"Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains." Often attributed to Winston Churchill ([11]). The phrase originated with Francois Guisot (1787-1874): "Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." It was revived by French Premier Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929): "Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." Referenced in Swimming_with_Sharks (1994) as "if you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations

I prefer CBC Radio to TV and news to the rest. Comedy and drama on the CBC need to be radically improved. The same goes for the private sector by the way. As a country, we are not punching our weight and should be doing a lot better. The last comedy programs I really enjoyed on CBC were CODCO and The Kids in the Hall which is a LONG time ago.

I see the ambassador is still at work, doing more conventional things these days: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/canadian-ambassador-kevin-vickers-launches-arctic-novel-1.2773600

On a personal basis, you can see the relationship with David Axelrod is still strong. Obama has been very lucky or shrewd or both in his choice of political allies.

Rue, I was simply responding to the question posed in the OP. I am not a Trump supporter.

Has any Canadian show produced by the private sector ever been as successful as Top Gear was? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv4opsn88iA http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31832534 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1228422/How-Top-Gear-conquered-world-humour-dedication-determination.html I am sure there are people who can come up with massive lists right back to Pete and Dud. Two that were adapted in the US spring to mind - The Office and House of Cards. And then there is David Attenborough to consider... The only Canadian show that I can recall from long ago in the British Isles was Beachcombers.

And on minority viewpoints...the PBS documentary series Frontline has been highlighting the issue of false accusations in cases of child abuse for two decades now.

Wolf Hall, Top Gear - public television succeeds in producing hit shows in other countries. Why not here?

I guess it's all about national priorities in the end. Look what BBC Radio produces: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio What a range.

Well, here's an example from thousands of somebody JT could mention to the Chi-Coms. Canadian connection, too: http://www.wangbingzhang.org

No.

The Turks are always more enthusiastic in their attacks on the Kurds than on ISIS. It's depressing to see the West betraying the Kurds yet again. I won't be moving to Kurdistan any time soon but I would trust these guys far more than Erdogan and his friends.

How much original investigative reporting does HuffPo do across Canada?

I must say I miss the old CBC Radio 2 of Jurgen Gothe and Co. It was my introduction to Canada and classical music. Whatever the presumably tiny ratings, its transformation was a loss to Canadian culture. So much for elitist nostalgia. These days, on the comedy and drama front, CBC really does need to move on. The BBC is streets ahead and I can't recall a TV series as good here as the Irish show Love/Hate, produced by their national broadcaster RTE. On the issue of choosing what we want to see, there are costs to that too. I dip into NRO and Taki magazine to see very different perspectives to my own and am often pleasantly surprised by what I find. Given global trends, the CBC is probably doomed. I, for one, will not be cheering.

Aren't we on that Internet machine right now? As journalists and reporters are culled, the news outlets will increasingly concentrate on the happenings of a few urban centres plus human interest shots from around the world. News stories from smaller Canadian towns will not be investigated and covered in the same way. In any news story I have been involved in, the only people who have interviewed me were CBC reporters.

The nation lives online now. If we don't cover ourselves, who will? The US networks? Commercial TV has its own agenda which is getting viewers for advertisers. Without a state broadcaster, less popular viewpoints will have a much harder time being heard. I don't watch regular CBC that much myself beyond the news.

I disagree. It may boil down to personal taste. I like all the regional stories covered by The National. The detail, the content is what I am referring to e.g. Power And Politics. I just don't get the same level on CTV shows although maybe I'll take a look at Evan Solomon's show. In my part of rural Canada, NL, there is no rival to CBC Radio or TV. The other stations have very little in-depth news coverage esp. on radio and their journalists don't ask interesting questions in interviews.

South Korea cannot compete on price. India cannot compete on quality or range of goods.