Brittanica shelved.

Via Bill Doskosh's blog is this item from the New York Times: The Encyclopaedia Brittanica will no longer be published in book form - after 244 years[!]

I remember when I bought my second PC, in mid-1995. CD-roms were all the rage, and the internet wasn't quite there yet as BBSs (Bulletin Boards) were just fading away. So I bought some pricey CD-roms over the next couple of years. (note: there used to be dedicated local stores that would sell nothing but computers, parts, and/or hundreds of Software Programs).
Besides a Dorling Kindersley Atlas, introduced by a Patrick Stewart voice clip, my other main information CD was an encyclopaedia from Compton. Everything known on ONE cd-rom; er, yeah.
With my still-3rd PC, I almost haven't ever loaded either. Of course the Internet, Search Engines, and a free Wikipedia are mere clicks away - one primary reason is that my current CD player never stops spinning. Before, my first player would spin, load its program, and then calmly rest unless actively needed.
How this relates to an entry about old fashioned print volumes is that I fondly remember being able to focus on a subject better then, more in-depth and free of the hurly-swirliness of constant machinery.
My preferred encyclopedia back when just a student was usually World Book. Although the Brittanica set wasn't far behind. At the library - either school or civic - there would be multiple brands available. And these would be updated and replaced every few years, as well.
This bit of news just makes me feel really old. That's such a lifetime (or two) ago. At 244 years of ongoing publication, maybe quite a few lifetimes for* 'the oldest English-language encyclopaedia still in production'.

more at: CNN Money's online article.
* a quote from their Wiki-page.

The ChumFMs vs. Canada's music biz.

A play on words - there's a serious CBC vs. the Music biz business article at today's G&M.
I hate Toronto's static commercial radio industry. A thousand 'greying and authoritive posing' voices crying how they know better what's fresh and exciting. Real music fans - that wish to discover any homegrown talent (active let alone past) - need to turn to the CBC, our only music playing game in town.

Here are a few good contemporary music acts - of which I only discovered first: either at CBCMusic.ca or from the public library:
Rococode
Ohbijou
Duchess Says
Eight and a Half
Maylee Todd
Royal Canoe
Shotgun Jimmie
Wintersleep
Boxer the Horse
Chains of Love

Grimes
Harlan Pepper
Hummers, the
Junction, the
Plants and Animals
Black Mountain
Creature
Elephant Stone
Grand Analog
Immaculate Machines

Pat Jordache
Land of Talk
Luyas, the
Steven McKay
Miracle Fortress
Kim Mitchell (his post-2000 album)
Pilate
Small Sins

(further online discoveries, not previously mentioned)
Dreamboat
Powers
Valleys
Zeus

That's thirty two active Canadian music acts. What do the Chumfms, Edges, and CHFIs got? Maybe 30 songs of the Madonna, Nirvanna, and Elton John variety(?) with 3 leftover spots for U.S. approved Drake, Nickelback, and Buble.

Blogger Reciprocation Day

This Thursday March 15th, ought to be considered for a Blogger Reciprocation Day. I've mentioned before (I know, I know) my disappointment with too numerous bloggers who, having received comments @home, never offer a return comment in kind! Or perhaps a scant few such bloggers might leave one or two off-site comments against (easily) a couple hundred received.
It's just pathetic.
Many of those web world shut-ins will even boast of their popularity and 'social media savvy'. Huh?
Why March 15th? Why not? The start of any month often implies an increase in business activities. Warm weather months (IMHO) tend to reveal a noticable online drop-off. The Fall and Christmas seasons already have their year-end activities and real-world rushes.
The Ides of March. So use your ID. Click-thru your own threads, and leave someone else a reciprocated comment!

Ms-spell'd.

Amongst the Sunday Morning browsing was this re-direct article at the Globe and Mail website from Thursday evening. They misspelt column writer Lorraine Sommerfeld's name - in its second paragraph blurb. An easy enough typo-flub yet unchanged on its fourth day online. It was also listed as being updated 20 minutes after its initial posting, at 6:43 p.m. Previously employed at the Toronto Star... welcome to the G&M.

Trade talk, 3rd-hand.

Okay, maybe one person gets the slight reference here.
Anyway visit Quotulatiousness for more about this week's Washington - St. Louis NFL draft position trade. Included is a perspective from the Vikings' viewpoint.
CQ: I'd say its a win-win trade, Washington will gain a marquee QB (either of the expected two choices) immediately, St. Louis still gets a strong 6th spot for 2012 and likely another (extra) strong top-half position for 2013 plus more in 2014 to help re-build its entire team with.
Of note: the Baltimore Ravens just went one dropped pass away from last month's Superbowl - no 'star' QB involved.

Cinnamon and Cheese Curds.

Just last night, I saw a news feature about something called a Cinnamon Challenge. Apparently, as dangerous as it can be, it sure was funny. Those health concerns didn't quite stop ABC News from displaying video after video of people involuntarily spewing undigested cinnamon.
What struck me is that... cinnamon? I had never of this challenge but it has been around for many years. For me, cinnamon recalls summer vacation camping trips.
There was winter food, and there was summer food.
It was during those stays upnorth, that occasional trips to a general slash dairy store were made. In the winter, food was mainly a supermarket concern. Yet, people go away and the next thing you know they are spending a morning out on a countryside raspberry field, with a 'picking your own' basket, or shucking corn instead of opening a tin can of the stuff, over a stove.
Anyway, at said store, two items became my favourite: a jar of cinnamon, and a sizable milk shake container of cheese curds.
The cinnamon would get itself slathered onto fresh toast. Chesse curds were a snack all by themselves.
A few years back I bought Cheese curds from a supermarket. A disappointment. The plastic bag packaging was rather small, and the item itself was priced like a high-end delicacy. It's something I miss.
Cinnamon on fresh toast is another something that fell off from my usual home menu, too.

TV's first Clip Show.

What was TV's first [complete] Clip Show? I won't be able to answer this, but I did just watch a 'clip show' episode from Leave It to Beaver's last season.
A few nights back there was another weird bit of trivia from LItB. On that episode, they had made reference to two separate 'active' TV series (The Twilight Zone and Route 66). I've seen TV episodes make an occasional reference to one, but two?
This is part of why I love watching retro TV. Sure I saw the LItB series during at home lunch breaks when I was a kid. Forget the nostalgia - I catch onto a lot more of the nifty stuff, whenever re-watching these shows as an older adult.

Then there are those new-to-me other series, like Bachelor Father. Think 'Two and a Half Men', except with more one-off appearance women. There was an episode with a pro wrestler, and just before the inevitable commotion - the lead actor breaks the fourth wall ahead of a commercial break. Another had the Bachelor uncle being repeatedly set-up for potential dates - and one of these was with another man, as met in a sauna. You just don't expect that out of a late 1950s family sitcom. As compared to today's shows being too often exactly as expected and plotted. That series got bounced across all three of the Big Networks, btw.

Or then there is the sport of espying otherwise known actors within other smaller roles. Plus, I think watching Life with Elizabeth and Hot in Cleveland, during the same broadcast season (TCT, CTV), must be setting an unbreakable timeline record for one actor or actress (Betty White).
Sometimes though, following older series can be tinged with remorse. Looking up related Wikipedia entries can also disclose, still-interesting, unfortunate real lives that developed far away from their comfort-TV alternate.
I would like to know though - what was TV's first 'clip show'. (And not The Gabby Hayes 'b-film rehashed in 30' Show).

Why MS should bring back BOB (seriously).

I reposted a preview Windows 8 Logo, as modified with the BOB character. It was just whimsy.
Yet that is exactly what Microsoft has been missing ever since its Windows 95 Super-Launch days! Google has its playful search page logo mods, Apple has its own built-in style, Linux gets to be the 'bad boy outsider'. Microsoft, with its Windows system, became boring.
I bemoaned the lost days of its early Solitaire and Windows 3.1 system. Back then, there were MS Entertainment Packs, and fresh, strong Office competitors. Then the Netscape's internet browser arrived (also available on 3.1).
After W95, Microsoft shifted away from its more free-wheeling origins and started to behave like Apple. Soon everything became about using PCs 'The Microsoft Way'. Here's 'their' browser. Here's 'their' music player. Here's 'their' e-mail program. Here's 'their' Office suite. Here's their 'extra' MS-keyboard key. And here's 'their' new replacement version(s) for each. Yet, I still simply can't type "2+2" without hunting down [its not even on the keypad!!] the Equal key first?!?
Becoming boring and staid, plus being 'resentful and closed off' is a lousy combination. Yeah, I wanna be a PC.
Microsoft Bob was a spectacular failure. And yet many people will know of how much out of that entire program found itself, later, into various small and mundane computing tasks.
When I did the logo modification, first I chuckled. Then I thought "hey, yeah." One of my favourite Windows tweeks was making a customized Start-up screen with sound. In earlier Windows, I used a Star Trek NG image and sound file. Plus a different Windows supplied sound on Exit. In my XP set-up (its a 10-year computer), I still can't clear out a default opening sound file. It says I can; but it still plays both sound files during start-up. I had to d/l a separate Tweek program to eliminate the needless shortcut arrows added to Desktop Icons. Does it matter at all? No, I guess not. But it was whimsy!
I could run through, top to bottom, all kinds of tweeks, system and programs, that I wished Microsoft would have done or maintained or allowed*. I'm sure many people feel the same way. I remember there being non-MS ProgramBars, available before Windows 95. And shareware programs to both nestle and supply unique backgrounds and icons to their Win3.1 program groups.
When I looked at a Windows Home version 7 setup, I was let-down by its blandness and mindless out-of-the-box conformity. I had to d/l an update to read older MS-Help Files in windows 7 and copy-in still functional programs while standard installers failed. I also had to uncheck defaults over hidden folders/directories (buried in a new-style clutterville) and file extension display. I had to decipher between two near-identical My_Program _Files folders, labelled as x86 and 64 and expand-by-doubleplus the main Internet Browser Search bar width. That's not intended as super-user stuff, is it?
With Windows 8, I would add back Bob and Clippy and Orby and Lexx... Not as previously annoying by default 'helpers', just as a bit of light-heartedness. Users - old and new - should be as welcomed, as we were 21-14 years ago.


* God how wish that Add-File Dialog could be "set". Everytime that I change or add a file to use with any program: I need to re-select Details view, slide the cursor along the horizontal scalebar, then add the desired missing filter (such as the Year or Date Modified field), then re-sort, and also re-size the whole thing. Really?

Has Microsoft abandoned Bob?

(gently) Inspired by an oldie but a goodie.
Here is a quick alteration of the new Windows 8 Logo:



The actual logo, as well as those of earlier verisons can be found at the WindowsTeam blog.
Actually... putting one's personal photo, or more(?) into their new logo - as a startup and shutdown feature - would be a nifty consumer trick.

[UPD:] Deleted, then restored 2 days later, see further posting for explanation.

1930s Movie Posters found.

Via Mystery Fanfare is this item from Flavorwire.
Approximately 30 early 1930s movie posters were discovered last Fall - in remarkably good condition - in a Pennsylvania attic. An auction is being held for these posters on March 23rd (online bidding is already started). What's also interesting from this story is how the posters were stored: glued one atop of each other, and later used as insulation.

Has Microsoft abandoned Wes Cherry?

Earlier this week, Microsoft debuted a preview of its Windows 8 operating system. Without being a fresh and current tech expert - this will be the Windows platform that runs on traditional desktops and laptops, as well as touch screen tablets.
Having a bit of experience with a recent Windows 7 set-up, I was already markedly disappointed with their decision to make a Home Edition mostly incapable of running, or installing, older Win98-XP era applications. Some did, some didn't. I actually had to download a small update file - to run their own standardized Microsoft Help Files with otherwise still entirely functioning programs. Seriously?
A customer who buys a Home Edition is often the person that isn't urgently looking for the latest and greatest; otherwise that individual purchases the Premium or Ultimate edition. And now there is a brand new version 8 to review and re-learn.
Did Microsoft abandon Wes Cherry? Cherry was once the 'Jesus' of Microsoft. Sure they introduced a graphical system around 1990. And forget 1993's Office; it was their employee who earlier made their fabled Solitaire included program that actually captured the hearts and minds of a mass frenzy public. Like the MS-calculator program, the solitaire program itself has already been redone - with card dealing mistakes for XP - previously. And nowadays you can find a whole lot more stuff added with any newer Windows version than just... Klondike solitaire.
But that little ol' one-person card game says it all about whether the system "works" for the average consumer. Forget about drivers and connections and whether folders, directories, icons, or tiles make up a snazzy new visual style. Can you play a modest game on the tablet? As you would on a PC? Perhaps by simply touching the screen instead of using a mouse pointer?

Surely there will be a hobbyist one day that will hack-build a stripped down Dos-tablet. Then loaded with a tricked out 'all-Windows'. I was really looking forward to such a backwards compatible modern tablet! Not 'Old System', just compatible with selected old programs.
Zillions of Games is still adding - since 1998-2003, approximately 2,000 user creations. JNSE still has an active PGA-golf hobby following, 20 years(!) onward - utilizing hundreds of real-life simulated courses. The same goes for lots of older pinball and video arcade emulation stuff. Even early-era calculators have received the photo-realistic simulation treatment. All is to be lost without any straight forward MS-Windows compatibility allowance?

Waking up Great, on a Sunday.

Hooray. I feel better. At least I woke up this Sunday morning* without a throbbing pain in my skull. Instead of a snuffly late winter cold knocking me out, I had developed a week long brain pounding.
I don't call this a headache; those are, for me, just ordinary moments of sluggishness. This was acute and remained as a physical soreness. I first had a bout of this around seven years ago. It has likely only occurred once in-between and probably only lasted two or three days.
I would wake-up, often hours ahead of usual, to immediate pain. Then each morning I tried to lie back, find an elusive angle of lessen discomfort, and hold steady for dear life. After a shower and a tablet the rest of each day went thankfully along reasonably so.
Last night the skull pain became piercing during the late night so I took an Aspirin soon before sleep. That or illness time running out - I felt a lot better this morning.
I had the Snowbird song humming in my thoughts. I fancied a great morning. With hot cross buns or tea scones, a trip out to my deck, basement excerise room, or just a plopping in front of my 42" TV... Er, didn't happen.
I didn't even care much for this morning's online activity.
Now for a gripe!

Reading the Toronto Sun column writers I ran across a similar Spring Arriving item by Mark Bonokoski. My gripe is over his mentioned non-GTA residence.
Of course the man lives better than me! He's got stellar career accomplishments a metric mile long. D'uh.
But I resent whenever I come across public opinion representatives that live outside of their following public. Because much of any public person's renown(?) is that they are 'one of us'.
I like Bonokoski. So I just assumed, naturally enough, that he also lived within the Greater Toronto Area. Or, being a national news chain figure, still lived within another comparable urban to semi-suburban region.
I can only compare this to former CTV Toronto weatherman Dave Duvall. Dave always - too often so(?) - made reference of a distant small town life. Nobody cares, but it was real nice to be permitted such data!
Private life is private, public life is public. I still want the people whom I admire and follow to make some ongoing acknowledgements of their basic stats. For instance - just time-to-time stating that one lives in Etobicoke, or north of Toronto (and meaning Thornhill to Newmarket).
Maybe he has, AND I simply don't read his column half enough. It rubbed me the wrong way. And this idyllic pre-Spring morning has passed along, except less so.

* early 4 a.m. entry was post-dated from Sat. night.

Making a 'Monkees' out of Cdn. MassMedia

Davy Jones, lead actor and singer of the late 1960s' pre-fab TV band died earlier this week. Quite a few onliners have already noted his passing.
Of added interest for me was that Antenna TV, subchannel 2.2 in Buffalo aired their 1968 movie, Head during early Saturday afternoon. They currently already include The Monkees as a part of a youth-pop late-60s, sitcom block on late afternoon Saturdays. Then Antenna also put together a full evening rest of the weekend 58 episode* marathon of episodes from their show - with a station notice promo spot as well*.
UPD: MeTV also aired, that weekend, special retro TV episodes in which Jones had guest starred.

When was the last time any media broadcaster, within Canada, ever issued a substantial rescheduling tailored to a same week news occurence? Exactly.
I couldn't even get to hear Canadian Music on the last Canada Day. You know, when I woke up on Saturday, I reached over and dialed into the two major sports radio stations. With a new Leafs coach as of Friday - both still sounded like automated complied programming - to my sleepy eared review.

Iceland for Quebec?

One of the news items of this weekend is a consideration of Iceland [potentially] adopting the Canadian dollar as its currency. Both the Globe, Star, as well as the blogosphere, including Metanoodle have written about this.
While I agree with some of the advantages stated, one drawback I foresee is Quebec's reaction. If Iceland can use the Loonie AND remain independant... Yeah. There's a danger point for our 'neverendum' Canada. Which would then only frustrate other regions into further musings about semi-adopting the U.S. dollar (or the USA itself) - for "local improvement" away from Ottawa and a perceived Quebec Pandering influence.
Still, that is only one possibility of uncertain chance. Iceland is small by population scale. They have a tie-in with Canada's own early population growth. However, Quebec is far more intregal to Canada's coast to coast to coast existence.
Due to Canada's insecurity with its Quebec province, I think Iceland (like Newfoundland in 1949) would need to join-up at either 100% with Canada or leave it at nothing beyond neighbourly friendship.

1972, game 2, period 1.

from Toronto, Ont. Cda.
Soviet Union:
07 shots, 0 goals
Canada:
10 shots, 0 goals

Game 2, period 1: score 0-0.

Fire Burke. Sell ownership.

A third done. Maple Leafs' 4-year, zero playoffs, Head Coach Ron Wilson was finally fired tonight. MLSE still needs to fire the General Manager, Wilson's good buddy Brian Burke.
I still think MLSE made a huge blunder in not hiring John Anderson for the coaching job. After a couple of seasons with Atlanta (now Winnipeg), he is currently an assistant coach with the Phoenix Coyotes. Before Atlanta, Anderson put in a stellar decade coaching the Chicago Blackhawks' minor league team.

I think potential next coach Dallas Eakins is, however, the wrong man for this particular wrong time! Born in Florida, raised in Ontario, played exclusively in the States... this team and its ownership needs - more desperately - to show some gritty Canadian / Ontario hockey Faith.
Everyone always said that Wilson acted as though he were the smartest man in the room. For the Ontario Teachers Group, the reality was that they viewed him as the most 'correct lad' in their posh pension plan school-room.
The real fault with the Toronto Maple Leafs isn't that they hired American, American College system, and Foreign-born players. It is that they did so [overwhelmingly so] owing to a complete disdain for 'vulgar' Canadian hockey professionals who mostly had walked out of the proper educational path to pursue their young, confident, independant, skilled NHL careers. And that led to a corporate philosophy of not permitting opportunities to Ontario born and raised hockey talents. A philosophy that reaches back past Wilson's record, past the playoff drought, and right back to watching Mats Sundin carrying this team unaided by another "skill and prime-aged player" since the mid 1990s.
What is Burke really, than a 'more proper looking' clone replacement of previous GM Pat Quinn? It was also a lousy way that they brought him in, delayed with a year-long wink, after dumping the reins unto seat-warmer John Ferguson Jr.

Toronto the Gone.

Via JB's Warehouse and Curio Emporium (also listed along the sidebar) there are always a few interesting linked items of and from long ago Toronto.
A few recent include:
A 1952 profile of the city and its “conservative-progressive spirit", as originally published in The Saturday Evening Post.
The early NBA Huskies of 1946-47.
A former Bloor and Yonge bookstore,
The moving walkways of the Spadina Subway Station. (CQ: I miss these.)
And in a separate, continued, web browsal;
1912 - The year we missed our subway moment - via TorontoStandard.com
It was also a very cold winter here, a full century ago.
At just 48 years' past, on Feb. 26, 1964, shoppers first strolled through the Yorkdale Shopping Centre - "briefly the largest indoor shopping mall in the world."


On this day 'X' years ago - via NorthernBlue.ca
Notables of Cdn. notables:
1980 - Gordie Howe scores his 800th goal.
1984 - P.M. Trudeau resigned.
1988 (Feb 28th) - Calgary Olympics closed. For the home side: 0 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze.
1996 (Feb 28th) - Alanis Morissette wins 4 Grammys.
1998 (Feb 28th) - Mark Messier gets 1,600th point. Vancouver over Ottawa 6-4.
2010 (Feb 28th) - Canada wins Gold Medal hockey game, Vancouver Olympics close.

For late arrivals:
(March 1st) Cdn. highlights:
1632 - Samuel de Champlain appointed first Governor of the royal colony of New France
1927 - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council decides in favour of Newfoundland claim on Labrador boundary rather than Canada's
1939 - C. D. Howe opens First Trans-Canada Air Lines transcontinental passenger service from Montréal to Vancouver.
1989 - The Canadian Space Agency is created.

What a dandy of a give'erway.

The Toronto Star has a contest for a pair of free Maple Leafs tickets. Yup, they lost tonight. Note: the game score article spells 2nd paragraph Air Canada "Centre - er" wrong.

1972, gm 1, period 3.

from Montreal, Que. Cda.
Soviet Union:
10 shots, 3 goals
Canada:
12 shots, 1 goal

Game 1, period 3: score 7-3.

The Option.

As a reminder to the daily Mayor Ford haters.

Smitherman mass Endorsements Photocard.


Google Canada's listing of Smitherman's many endorsements.

Instead of the Oscars?

What were you watching this evening? Rather than a 3-hour gloat of mostly unwatched and heard-of movies of 2011?
With the Daytona 500 also being a washout earlier today, I chose a remaining Auto Racing flick from a budget Sports Films DVD set. Blonde Comet, released on Boxing Day, 1941 (!) is a 65 minute B&W b-film about a fictional female racecar driver who, after a couple of other speedway races, takes on the Indy 500. BTW, Danica Patrick is the real life pole position lead driver of this year's Daytona race. While still a b-film - Blonde Comet, starring Virginia Vale, has a touch of impressive footages of a few European races at its start.
TCM spoiler synopsis page.
Then I watched an episode of Miami Vice, season one. At least it featured an Oscar nominee, Burt Young.

HMCS Christina?

Here's a proud display of a Canadian Naval vessel. Well, the ship was probably long abandoned and worn out at the time of its intitial sale, to Aristotle Onassis, in 1954.

Today it is a fancy people yacht, the Christina O, currently docked along the Thames river in London, England and open to visitors at a 15 pounds admission price. It also spent some years as Greece's presidential yacht, renamed Argo.
Originally built in Montreal during WWII, the HMCS Stormont now has its own 'refurbished-only' life website.
During WWII it operated as an convoy escort ship, serving the Murmansk Run across the Arctic into the Soviet Union, as well as the North Atlantic operations and as part of the D-Day armada in the English Channel.

Drawing of a father's arrest.

A young father of three was arrested (then released) this week when arriving to pick up his 4-year old from school. She had drawn a picture of her daddy's gun. Piecing together from the three sources below (plus hearing the story last night on CityTV News):
Toronto Star version.
Postmedia version.
Adam's Law blog posting.

The school called the Children's Services which then called the Regional Police.
He was summoned to the principal's office, arrested, handcuffed and put into the cruiser.
He was a volunteer parent with the school.
His at-home pregnant wife was also taken to the police station.
Their oldest 3(?) kids were temporarily held by Family Services, excluding a toddler.
The "gun" was only a transparent toy.
The man did have a distant troubled past.
Father was then released as uncharged.

Prodendorse: If it's not Delissio.

Funny, how I hadn't liked Kraft's Delissio frozen pizza (deluxe) years before. Since then it was always a clear favourite over the rival McCain product. Although the McCain double-pack pizza I bought a year ago - after seeing it sit on the sale shelf - was very very good too! Far less greasy than I could recall of others - shorter non ring-chopped peppers, too.
Today I am having a more modest off-brand, of course its on sale too, frozen pizza. (First pizza since.) Ugg. The comparable Schneiders' Hot Stuffs were gone as I went to a food store, late per their weekly flyer.
There was another modest supermarket pizza brand I used to buy regularly. But then some of its products seemed a tad expired. And Kraft and McCain pushed further ahead with their own rival versions. Except neither has seen quite their same level of sale pricing as compared to up to last Spring.
And no, I haven't tried any of their more upscale version pizza products, either. I just feed my grub-hole with the standard products. The same goes for 'Tiger Tail' excluded Chapman's ice cream.

RIP Pierre Juneau.

Via Alan Cross's journal, I read of the passing this week, of Pierre Juneau. Juneau was the former CRTC chief that brought CanCon, Canadian Content, rules to our domestic radio industry.
In making a short web surf of The National Post, The Globe and Mail, and The Toronto Star this morning - I only uncovered this one other blurb notice - as copied from the Canadian Press service.
Pitiful.
Juneau is one of those rare Canadians deserving of wide-ranging State Funeral attention, while not the actual thing. I've seen more Cdn. media ink slashed aboat each day over the late Whitney Houston - who once performed at the CNE (hey hey!) and current mega single Adele's second award show in a week's (Grammys, Brits) finger salute.
There were often things I have disliked about the CRTC and some of its rulings. The original 1970s CanCon requirements were not one of them. There were things about the CBC which I have disliked, and liked, as well. Juneau later served as its president.
Yet guess what? One doesn't make an omelette - without cracking a few eggs. And how much of Canada's Cultural Industry might have followed in the aftermath of the [pre-CanCon] Guess Who's unexpected success? Without those initial Canadian Content requirements?
Even in the 20-tens, it is as tough as ever to readily find fresh genuine Canadian Entertainment, within Canada, and not just another 'U.S. Clone e-Canada' development fronting amongst our now more consolidated - Free Trade protected - industry.
R.I.P. Pierre Juneau.