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Foreign Affairs minister Bill Graham noted that projecting Canadian values and culture is an important third pillar of the country's foreign policy in a speech given on March 22. Speaking to representatives of Canadian arts organizations at the Canadian Arts Summit in Banff, the minister also noted that Canadian artists have a role to contribute to his department's ongoing Dialogue on Foreign Policy. The initiative launched in January involves public consultation, town hall meetings, written submissions and expert round tables on where Canada's foreign policy should be heading. Below is an excerpt from his speech.
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A number of appointments have been made to the regional panels of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. Public adjudicator Gilles Moisan and Tara Rajan, who is currently the director of research and data at the Canadian Television Fund, join the Quebec regional panel. Former Lieutenant Governor of P.E.I. Gilbert Clements has been named to the Atlantic regional panel. He will serve as public representative and vice-chair. Public adjudicator Hanny Hassan and Mark Maheu, VP and general manager of CHUM Group Radio, Ottawa, have been added to the Ontario regional panel.
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Dalfen calls for more action by government against piracy
CRTC chair Charles Dalfen is calling on the appropriate government agencies and departments to "continue and intensify their efforts to combat signal theft in Canada and to give full effect to the Supreme Court of Canada's unanimous April 2002 decision declaring such activity to be illegal."
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A coalition of audio-visual unions is calling for regulation that would force broadcasters to air at least two hours of original, non-industrial Canadian drama a week during prime time. The recommendation is aimed at rectifying what the unions say is a dramatic decline in drama, caused in part by the implementation of the CRTC's 1998 TV policy. Pamela Brand, national executive director of the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC), which is part of the coalition, says such a requirement would result in 104 hours of drama being produced annually by each broadcaster or major station group.
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Sports specialty television channels The Score and Rogers Sportsnet are claiming economic need in requesting unprecedented increases to their regulated wholesale rates in their licence renewal applications. Sportsnet, owned by Rogers Media Inc., is asking the CRTC to hike its wholesale rate for carriage in basic packages from the current rate of 78 cents per subscriber to match TSN's $1.07. Comparing the three sports specialty channels based on what it calls subscriber revenue per average minute audience, The Score, owned by Headline Media Group Inc., wants an increase to 40 cents from its current 10-cent rate (CCR Update, March 19/03).
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Quebec's artists' union is questioning the provincial government's assertion that it is adding $20 million in new dollars to boost Quebec's film and television industry. The Quebec government highlighted its new film and television measures in a report entitled Politique Québécoise du cinéma et de la production audiovisuelle, which was released March 11.
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Frustrated by sour pay-per-view (PPV) negotiations with Shaw Communications Inc., SaskTel plans instead to offer its digital TV customers video-on-demand (VOD) by the end of the year. The Crown corporation owned by the Saskatchewan government has applied to the CRTC for a VOD licence, but the application has not yet been gazetted and no public hearing date has been set. Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (MTS), another telco offering a TV distribution service, is also in the midst of preparing a VOD application.
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