CBC -National Dream -Pierre Berton

[August1991]

Someone posted this on YouTube (no irritat9ng Google ads):

 

 

[August1991]

I have many thoughts about this.

I will note two.

-I remember Jean-Marie Lemieux. (Lke any good actor, he took up the room.)

-We all paid for this series. It should be free for all around to see it.

 

[August1991]

This forum is wonderful. I can post links for posterity

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BTW, there were seven more episodes.

Edited August 1, 2023 by August1991

[August1991]

Episode Two:

 

[August1991]

My post/link above (Episode Two) has been hijacked.

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IMHO, this series - indeed all Radio-Canada, CBC  content - should be available to all. Around  the world.

We Canadians paid for it.

 

Edited September 24, 2023 by August1991

[August1991]

Episode 3:

 

[August1991]

This series made me walk around Montreal, looking for houses/buildings.

Episode 4:

 

[August1991]

Episode 5. (The CBC must make this series available in high definition, with subtitles, without cost, to the world.)

We paid for it.

 

[August1991]

The CBC/Radio-Canada receives about $1.2 billion each year from Canadian taxpayers and has some 8,000 people working. Montreal's STM has about 11,000 employees. In Zone A, it costs $3.75 to take the metro.

Here is Episode 6:

 

Edited November 18, 2023 by August1991

[August1991]

Amazing. All 6 episodes still available,

Google/Youtube - America - make this possible.

Edited April 28, 2024 by August1991

[August1991]

For a larger understanding of this history, I recommend watching the PBS videos about James Hill:

https://www.pbs.org/video/episode-1-xpovlk/

Hill was born in Ontario.

 

[herbie]

Speaking of PBS, you could compare The National Dream as of similar importance to Canadians as their Ken Burn's The Civil War.

[August1991]

On 4/20/2025 at 9:25 PM, herbie said:

Speaking of PBS, you could compare The National Dream as of similar importance to Canadians as their Ken Burn's The Civil War.

Disagree.

I now understand that their Ken Burn's PBS is like our Pierre Berton's National Dream.

Until PBS, I did not know of James Hill.

[August1991]

Our CBC/Radio-Canada is a bubble.

Your PBS opened my mind.

[herbie]

Where the hell do you live? PBS Seattle was our prime source of British comedies and nature shows in the late 1960's & 70s.

Canada does not have thousands of corporations seeking tax writeoffs to fund it, nor spend 22 minutes each hour begging with telethons...

 

Edited Sunday at 07:58 PM by herbie