Brooklyn is one of the most well-known Canadian films in recent memories. Brooklyn qualifies as a Canadian film, being a co-production between the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada. Given the worldwide praise toward the film, touting Brooklyn as a Canadian film success makes sense.
Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) essentially is in Ireland. Moves to America aka New York City aka Brooklyn in 1951. Goes back to Ireland. Will she go back to Brooklyn?
This is a cursory look at the plot. Love enters into the equation. Being homesick enters into view. Ronan is American-born and Irish-raised and was perfectly suited for the role.
If you wonder why she keeps going back and forth, that is not the best approach to this film. Just know some of the story is in the United States. Some of the story is in Ireland. None of the story is in Canada.
The story is more about romance and the "what if" questions involved in romantic stories.
John Crowley directed the film with the screenplay from Nick Hornby based on the Colm Tóibín novel Brooklyn.
The major players in Brooklyn are either British or Irish. Further down on the callsheet is Jessica Paré, the most famous Canadian in the film. Other Canadians in the cast include Emily Bett Rickards, Ellen David, and Christian de la Cortina.
The New York portions of Brooklyn were filmed mostly in Montréal with Ireland serving as Ireland.
Room was a Canadian film in part because of the book of the same name by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. Brooklyn stems from a book by an Irish author.
Ronan is the primary reason to see the film with a marvelous performance. Brooklyn is a pleasant film you will likely enjoy. Don't be surprised if you forget most of the film about a month after you saw the film.
Brooklyn received 3 Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actress for Ronan. The film won Canadian Screen Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Musical Score.
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Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announces the lifting of #COVID19 border measures, including vaccination & testing requirements for all travellers & mandatory use of ArriveCan app. Mask requirements on trains & planes will also be lifted. The changes take effect Oct 1.#cdnpolipic.twitter.com/pT8Garg9Ed
The news has been leaked for a few days but is now official: Getting into Canada will be a lot easier as a travel destination when the month changes to October.
The ArriveCAN app will be optional when the change is made.
This had been a great concern especially for border cities whose officials were concerned because American travelers were much less likely to cross into Canada, especially for cross border shopping. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made things easier for Canadians to shop within the U.S. on quick cross border trips but not the other way around.
Travelers won't have to submit public health information through the ArriveCAN app or website or provide proof of vaccination. There are other provisions that will be dropped.
The restrictions led to actions such as the service of the Windsor Tunnel Bus to be suspended. You have an international border, the busiest crossing between the countries. Greyhound went to Windsor before the pandemic but now Greyhound doesn't go to Canada (outside of Toronto and Vancouver from the United States). You couldn't cross on foot on the Ambassador Bridge or the tunnel.
We hope the Tunnel Bus and other suspended service will return shortly after the government's announcement this morning.
For those who criticise us for not being critical enough of the prime minister, well, you should read our border crossings coverage. We appreciate the overall diligence of the Trudeau Government on COVID-19 during the height of the pandemic. We do feel the government has carried on good policies far too long.
This change affects the sports world in that unvaccinated athletes can travel to Canada as of October 1. The Toronto Blue Jays had to deal with that in terms of visiting MLB players and in the acquisition of the previously unvaccinated Whit Merrifield from Kansas City. The Blue Jays host Boston on October 1-2. The team might not play any home playoff games in the opening round, depending on the playoff seeding.
This is more relevant to the NHL teams that won't have to worry about unvaccinated players playing in Canada.
Ideally, people would be vaccinated in coming to Canada. The issue was that the good intentions produced a policy that made traveling to Canada not worth the hassle.
The obvious time to make the change would be heading into a travel summer. Hopefully, people can make travel plans to Canada in the beautiful fall and for those who enjoy winter. Our look at where to visit Canada in 2023 is going to be a lot brighter.
Another small week in the CFL where this time most of the West gets to rest while the East gets to shine.
The lone Friday night game has the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the final meeting with the Montréal Alouettes, this time in La Belle Province.
The winner gets the tiebreaker that may prove rather important. ESPN2, in a rare sighting in the fall, will carry this game in the United States.
Toronto goes east to Ottawa in the Saturday evening opener.
The BC Lions and Calgary Stampeders finish their home-and-home series with a trip to Vancouver in the prime time spot out on the West Coast.
Edmonton, Saskatchewan, and Winnipeg get to rest up on an early fall weekend.
ESPN2
Friday Hamilton @ Montréal, 7:30p
TSN
Friday Hamilton @ Montréal, 7:30p Saturday Toronto @ Ottawa, 7p Calgary @ BC, 10p
Bye week: Edmonton, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg
Saskatchewan blew a 10-0 lead yet regained the lead 24-23 with 68 seconds left. The Elks hadn't won in Regina since 2015 in over 2,500 days. Edmonton hadn't defeated a divisional opponent since beating Calgary on the road on Labour Day 2021.
Sergio Castillo kicked a 47-yard field goal to give Edmonton a 26-24 lead with 28 seconds left for the victory.
Despite Edmonton's home woes, the team is now 4-4 on the road in 2022.
The Roughriders are 2 games ahead of the Elks with 4 games left for each team and have the tiebreaker, despite the loss last Friday.
Everyone had a good laugh about the Winnipeg Blue Bombers return to Hamilton, site of the 2021 Grey Cup where Winnipeg won its second straight Grey Cup. Sure Dane Evans was back in the starting lineup as the Tiger-Cats quarterback. Winnipeg figured to easily trounce Hamilton.
Evans did throw 25-for-32 for 327 yards and a career-high 5 passing touchdowns. The Tiger-Cats scored 24 points to blow open the game for Hamilton in the second quarter.
The Blue Bombers now have 2 losses this season, both to East Division teams.
The BC Lions and Calgary Stampeders are almost certainly headed for a CFL playoff game in 2022. The Lions had a ½ game lead going into last week's tilt in Calgary. Nathan Rourke had led BC to a 1-point victory earlier in Calgary. Vernon Adams Jr. showed why the Lions traded a 1st-round draft pick for him.
Adams went 25-for-32 for 294 passing yards and added 32 rushing yards in his first start in orange.
Jake Maier might wonder if his coach Dave Dickenson will lean toward Bo Levi Mitchell. An overtime loss is still a loss.
The Lions have the tiebreaker over the Stampeders with the final game between the teams Saturday night in Vancouver. BC only has 3 more points than Calgary in the first 2 games. That theoretical West semifinal will be a game to remember.
Calgary linebacker Cameron Judge will sit out this week's game in Vancouver after punching BC Lions receiver Lucky Whitehead on the field following the game at McMahon Stadium.
I can’t thank @saraorlesky (aka the 🐐) enough for showing me the ropes of sideline reporting the last few months.🏈To say she will be missed, is an understatement! One of the most beautiful people inside & out! (Only makes sense we end up twinning on our last game together) pic.twitter.com/foAq8i8wgn
Brit Dort essentially took over for Claire Hanna at CTV Regina (Channel 2 CKCK-TV) as Hanna went to Ottawa. Even when Sara Orlesky was still on the TSN staff, we noted the absence of sideline reporters out west for the CFL on TSN.
Ryan Rishaug (Edmonton) has been on other TSN duties. Farhan Lalji is in Vancouver and he has worked extra duty on play by play (only in Vancouver) and in Toronto as host of the CFL on TSN panel.
Dort is new and can only cover so much territory: Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, and Edmonton is a large beat for just one person. Matthew Scianitti covers Toronto and Hamilton but they are close to each other. Hanna came out from Ottawa to help out this past week in Calgary.
Your humble narrator likes Donnovan Bennett, host of The Waggle official CFL podcast. Yet I haven't listened too much to the podcast of late. Sara Orlesky did make an appearance on The Waggle. If the CFL had a working app, that would be an easy way to listen.
Dustin Nielson and Glen Suitor worked with Brit Dort in Regina on Friday and with Claire Hanna in Calgary on Saturday. Rod Smith and Duane Forde with Matthew Scianitti were at the Hall of Fame Game in Hamilton.
The Canadian Football Hall of Fame has always been in Hamilton since 1972 but moved into Tim Hortons Field in 2016.
There are 2 kinds of NHL fans: those who count the seconds until preseason and the others who are like, "September already?"
The NHL preseason schedule is that sign that real hockey games are coming quite soon.
Good news for the the people of Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Elsipogtog First Nation, New Brunswick, winners of Kraft Hockeyville in 2020 and 2021, respectively. These communities will finally get their preseason game.
Both communities will get the Montréal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators. The teams will face off in nearby communities: Gander, NF at the Steele Community Centre on October 6 and nearby Bouctouche, NB at the J.K. Irving Centre on October 8.
The Canadian teams generally play each other with the grand exception of the Seattle Kraken, a random Habs home game with New Jersey, Vancouver hosting Gary Bettman's second favourite desert team, and a home-and-home with Toronto and Detroit.
There will be preseason games in non-NHL cities: CAA Arena in Belleville, ON with the Battle of Ontario on September 30 and Abbotsford Centre in Abbotsford, BC with Edmonton and Vancouver on October 5.
Montréal played a preseason game at the Centre Videotron in Québec City in the before (COVID-19) time. That tradition has not returned.
Montréal @ Ottawa, 6:30p (Bouctouche, NB) Detroit @ Toronto, 7p
+ split squad games; All times EDT.
Rogers Sportsnet may or may not have posted a full preseason schedule. They have to consider Toronto Blue Jays potential postseason games. Will update as needed.
September 24 Ottawa @ Toronto, 1p/7p+ September 25 Calgary @ Vancouver, 7p+ September 28 Montréal @ Toronto, 7p September 29 Seattle @ Vancouver, 9:30p September 30 Toronto @ Ottawa, 7p (Belleville, ON) October 1 Vancouver @ Seattle, 9:30p October 3 Vancouver @ Edmonton, 9p October 6 Ottawa @ Montréal, 6p (Gander, NL) October 8 Montréal @ Ottawa, 6:30p (Bouctouche, NB)
TSN issued its full preseason schedule.
September 25 Winnipeg @ Edmonton, 6p (TSN3) September 26 New Jersey @ Montréal, 7p (TSN2) September 27 Ottawa @ Winnipeg, 8p (TSN3, TSN5) September 29 Winnipeg @ Montréal, 7p (TSN2, TSN3) October 1 Montréal @ Ottawa, 7p (TSN5); Edmonton @ Winnipeg, 8p (TSN3) October 3 Toronto @ Montréal, 7p (TSN2, TSN4) October 4 Ottawa @ Montréal, 7p (TSN2) October 7 Toronto @ Detroit, 7:30p (TSN4) October 8 Detroit @ Toronto, 7p (TSN4)
The NHL Network will have preseason games involving Canadian teams. Most of that coverage will be tape delayed. The above feeds will indicate whether a Canadian feed could be used. ESPN+ will also have select NHL preseason games.
There will be a new Winnipeg Jets TV voice to replace Dennis Beyak.
Cairo Time is a fish out of water in a romantic story of sorts. Juliette Grant (American actor Patricia Clarkson) is in Cairo to meet her husband Mark (Tom McCamus). Mark is away on a project with the United Nations. Mark's assistant Tareq Khalifa (English actor Alexander Siddig) picks Juliette from the airport and becomes her connection to Cairo.
Juliette is not used to the ways of Egypt. Men follow her because she wears Western dress. She talks about her children being grown so she has more time.
The setup is for eventual romance with Juliette and Tareq but takes its time in the 90-minute film. Juliette gets time to bond with Kathryn (Spanish actor Elena Anaya).
She learns shukran, thank you in Arabic, and uses that throughout the film. Juliette accidentally ends up at a men's only cafe.
Clarkson and Cairo are the primary reasons to see the film. Clarkson is so gifted, a true actor's actor. Writer/director Ruba Nadda showcases the beauty, warts and all, of Cairo.
The romance in the film is extremely subtle; this is not a typical romantic film. The story is about Juliette and discovery and frustration and waiting. She alternates between bonding with Tareq and the women she encounters in her journeys.
The Canadian content appears limited to brief screen time for McCamus and writer/director Ruba Nadda.
Cairo Time is a lovely film about a woman of a certain age who tries to figure out what is next for her in her life. A timeless story in a beautiful setting. The pace is relaxed even a bit slow yet highly enjoyable.
Cairo Time won Best Canadian Film at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
video credit: YouTube/Mongrel Media photo credit: Cairo Time
The Toronto International Film Festival gave us a surprise winner for the Best Canadian Feature Film for the second year in a row. The very experimental film Ste. Anne won last year and To Kill a Tiger from Nisha Pahuja won in 2022.
There was a significant realm of Canadian film on display in Toronto over the last 10 days. Rich Strike had 80-1 odds entering the 2022 Kentucky Derby, better odds than To Kill A Tiger had to win Best Canadian Feature Film.
Viking from Stéphane Lafleur received Special Mention for Best Canadian Feature Film. You might recall that Scarborough received Special Mention for Best Canadian Feature Film in 2021.
To Kill a Tiger is the first Canadian film in name only to win this award since When Jews Were Funny from Alan Zweig in 2013. We also cite Cairo Time from Ruba Nadda in 2009, a film we are reviewing for tomorrow.
The story is about India. The subject matter is significant and relevant, just not in this category.
We sat through The World Before Her from Nisha Pahuja in 2012. That was one of the most boring documentaries your humble narrator has ever watched. Hopefully, To Kill a Tiger is more interesting.
We thought the 2022 version of TIFF was a return to normal but this does not apply to the Best Canadian First Feature Film, which has not been awarded since 2019. TIFF has not said whether the award is closed or will be open at a later date.
The festival is acknowledging Canadian films with other awards, such as the Platform Prize to Riceboy Sleeps from Anthony Shim.
Something You Said Last Night from Luis De Filippis won the Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award, given to a film that centres youth and social change.
Black Ice from Hubert Davis won the TIFF 2022 People's Choice Documentary Award. 752 Is Not a Number from Babak Payami took 2nd runner-up.
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On from Madison Thomas won Special Mention for Best Feature from an Emerging BIPOC Filmmaker.
Women Talking from Sarah Polley, which somehow is not a Canadian film, did win 1st runner-up in the TIFF 2022 People's Choice Award behind some guy named Steven Spielberg.
We're not suggesting the Best Canadian Feature Film award be a populist acknowledgment, such as the win for Antigone in 2019, where that film ended up as the Canadian entry for the Academy Awards. Inconvenient Indian was the logical pick in 2020 and ran into issues not of TIFF's doing. Ste. Anne from Rhayne Vermette, the 2021 winner, hasn't played in a theatre outside of a film festival. The award should go to Canadian films that encourage love for Canadian film.
No one who sees To Kill A Tiger will know the film is Canadian unless they stay for the credits. Women Talking is more Canadian in content and that isn't a Canadian film.
There were plenty of great Canadian films in this year's festival that deserved more recognition. Consider bringing back the Best Canadian First Feature Film to encourage first-time directors.
The Canadian Screen Awards offers up the John Dunning Best First Feature Award. Hard to imagine TIFF wants to be upstaged by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
We are critical that CBC Radio shows don't do enough on Canadian film. TIFF is an exception. Here are some recent shows that look into Canadian film at 2022 TIFF. Excerpts are from Q with Tom Power unless otherwise noted.
The week starts out in a game where it is easy to be green as the Edmonton Elks travel to Regina to battle the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
That is the lone Friday night game.
Hamilton has a chance to rest up before hosting the top team from the West in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The late afternoon contest starts out the Saturday doubleheader.
The BC Lions start a home-and-home series with the Calgary Stampeders with a trip to Calgary in the later afternoon local start. The Lions took the exciting 41-40 win earlier in the year but that was with Nathan Rourke.
Montréal, Ottawa, and Toronto may swap recipes in lieu of playing football for the upcoming week.
The lack of a 2021 preseason and 2020 regular season led to lackluster offence. The CFL in 2022 has improved offence and point totals.
We saw on Saturday where Winnipeg scored 54 points on Saskatchewan in Manitoba and Calgary netted 56 points in Edmonton. The only team that topped that point total was the BC Lions scored 59 points in the opening week on Edmonton at Vancouver.
The Elks might be part of why point totals are up. Edmonton also lost 49-6 to Calgary and 46-14 to BC in 2022.
The Blue Bombers swept the first 2 against the Roughriders. The Stampeders swept the entire 4-game series with the Elks.
The Montréal Alouettes scored a win over a West team against the BC Lions at home. The Alouettes now have 3 of their 5 wins outside their division. The West is now 18-6 against the East in 2022.
Antonio Pipkin and Vernon Adams Jr. were not terribly effective for the Lions in their old home at Stade Molson. The Montréal defence got 6 turnovers. Adams gets the start in Calgary for BC.
Saskatchewan is a ½ game ahead of 2nd-place Montréal in a potential CFL playoff crossover. The Roughriders have a 2½ game lead over Hamilton and Ottawa for that crossover possibility.
Saskatchewan could eliminate Edmonton from playoff contention with a win at home on Friday. The Roughriders have the tiebreaker edge with the Elks.
The Elks now have a CFL-tying record with 14 consecutive home losses. Their stretch ties the Ottawa Rough Riders during the 1987 and 1988 seasons.
Our hearts are broken for the communities of James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon. pic.twitter.com/1L8mWfYdto
The Banjo Bowl telecast gave us a nice tribute to Sara Orlesky. Had not realised Orlesky had been doing all of this for 14½ years at TSN. Orlesky has also done a marvelous job of hosting the Winnipeg Jets games on TSN3 since the team returned to the NHL.
All those moments in the freezing weather. She was on the sidelines at the infamous 2013 CFL playoff game in Guelph where the wind stopped a Sean Whyte field goal in mid air.
They celebrated her career not because she was nice but also being very good, considerate, and professional to the people she interviewed. A corporate slogan says nobody doesn't like Sara Lee but that really applies to Sara Orlesky.
Rod Smith had some flying kilometres with a Friday night in Montréal with Duane Forde and John Lu and late on Saturday in Edmonton with Matt Dunigan and Brit Dort. Marshall Ferguson came off the bench with Forde and Matthew Scianitti on Saturday afternoon in Ottawa. Dustin Nielson and Glen Suitor worked the Banjo Bowl in Winnipeg with the impressive Sara Orlesky.
Dave Naylor sat in for Matt Dunigan on the CFL on TSN panel.
logo credit: CFL Twitter captures: @sskroughriders; @TSN_Sports
The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival wraps up over the weekend. Someday, some of those films could end up on the Canadian films seen on CBC on Saturday nights.
The September 17 films are definitely not family-oriented. Human trafficking, foster care, and domestic assault are some of the themes in the pair of films.
The September 24 films have suspense and isolation in the first 2 films. Not much of either in the final film of the night.
This shows out the variety you can find in Canadian films, even ones on the CBC on a Saturday night.
Some of these Canadian films may have been featured recently on CBC. The films should also be available on CBC Gem. All times are local, adding 30 minutes in Newfoundland.
Here is the schedule for late September 2022.
September 17
9p Honey Bee (2018) 11p The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019)
September 24
9p Angelique's Isle (2017) 11p Two Lovers and A Bear (2016) 1a Paper Year (2018)
Julia Sarah Stone is a great reason to watch Honey Bee (aka Natalie). Her character tries to escape foster care to return to her old life. The film aims for a realistic portrayal.
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is a rather intense film that would benefit from a lack of commercials. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Violet Nelson are engaging to watch.
Angelique's Isle is based on a true story about newlyweds stranded for the winter on Isle Royale in Lake Superior in 1845. Tantoo Cardinal is in the supporting cast.
Two Lovers and A Bear was the last Canadian film that Tatiana Maslany did. Gordon Pinsent, an actual bear, and a decent story from Kim Nguyen. A good sense of isolation in the cold.
Paper Year is definitely a Canadian film in name only. The couple is the focus of the film and neither character is very interesting.
Parvana is a young girl who really loves her father, Nurullah. He lost a leg in the Soviet-Afghan war so he is left to sell their possessions at the market, including a beautiful dress that Parvana has never worn.
The political tide has turned toward the Taliban. The father, who is also a teacher, is now on the other side of that political tide. They are harassed with an "offer" to marry off the young girl. The father smartly says she has been promised to someone else, even though we know that is not true. Shortly after, the father is arrested.
The Breadwinner is a Canadian film nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe with Angelina Jolie as one of the executive producers.
Now the family has a serious problem. Parvana had an older brother Sulayman who died, an older sister Soraya, a baby brother Zaki, and her mother Fattema. No male adult relative meant moving around outdoors wasn't an option.
Parvana then cuts her hair to become a "boy." The child then runs into an old friend Shauzia, who has become Deliwar in a similar fashion. Parvana struggles to come up with a name and eventually settles on Aatish, which means fire.
Parvana and Deliwar discover new freedoms that didn't have as girls in Kabul. As Aatish, Parvana makes money reading letters to people who don't know how to read.
This is an animated film that takes place in Kabul, Afghanistan. So "visibly Canadian" isn't a factor.
The Breadwinner is based on the book by Canadian Deborah Ellis. The major voice actors are Canadian: Saara Chaudry (Parvana / Aatish); Soma Bhatia (Shauzia / Deliwar); Ali Badshah (Nurullah); and Noorin Gulamgaus (Idrees and Sulayman). The film is a co-production with Canada, Ireland, and Luxembourg.
Ellis and Anita Doron wrote the screenplay with direction by Nora Twomey.
The elephant story, told to baby Zaki, helps tell the story of the culture throughout the film. Even though the film is animated, do not assume that the film is for all ages. The cruelty of life in that part of the world is told with the proper harsh tone at times. The violence is kept off-screen for the most part but would be sensitive to some viewers.
The story is powerful and important in this era. The film lives up to its hype.
The Breadwinner (2017) received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. The film was nominated for 6 Canadian Screen Awards, winning 4 for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song for The Crown Sleeps.
video credit: YouTube/StudiocanalUK photo credit: The Breadwinner
The Conservative Party of Canada had a reasonably orderly process in the latest attempt to pick a leader. No huge delays. No surprise winners.
Saturday night, party members overwhelmingly chose Ontario MP Pierre Poilievre to be their new leader. Poilievre won 68.15% on the first ballot.
With Patrick Brown being removed from the race, former Quebec premier Jean Charest finished second with 16.07%.
Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis, who ran in the last leadership race won by Erin O'Toole, took 3rd with 9.69%. Lewis was the only Black candidate, only female candidate, and the lone social conservative candidate.
Former Ontario MPP Roman Baber, not a fan of the COVID restrictions, finished with 5.03%. MP Scott Aitchison, a former mayor in Ontario's cottage country, had about 1%.
Poilievre has made some unusual enemies in running to be the opposition leader: He promised to fire the Bank of Canada governor and attacked the World Economic Forum. Poilievre said he would forbid cabinet ministers from attending the summit in Davos, Switzerland.
The Conservative Party leadership list has been extensive since Stephen Harper lost the 2015 election: Rona Ambrose (interim), Andrew Scheer, Erin O'Toole, Candice Bergen (interim), and now Pierre Poilievre.
The next federal election should be in the fall of 2024, so Poilievre will have time to make himself known to Canadian voters. Justin Trudeau has been prime minister for 7 years.
The argument, of sorts, is that Scheer and O'Toole weren't conservative enough, while Poilievre doesn't have that concern. The question is whether the party members picked someone who can flip key ridings in Ontario and Quebec. Poilievre has been a strong supporter of the truck convoy protesters earlier this year in Ottawa.
A criticism of the new leader is that he has been a career politician since he was 24.
Candice Bergen has been a long standing conservative MP since 2008. Bergen was a parliamentary secretary to the minister of public safety and minister of state for social development when Harper was prime minister.
Bergen announced last week that she will not run in the next federal election. She had been named Conservative House leader in 2016 and was the party's deputy leader in 2020 under O'Toole.
We would love to see a Conservative Party leader who didn't view CBC, especially CBC News, as an enemy. Conservative news outlets dominate the Canadian news landscape. CBC News is only seen as a "threat" because they don't conform to the usual standard in most of Canadian journalism.
The Green Party should have a new leader on November 19 this year. The party has individuals — Sarah Gabrielle Baron and Simon Gnocchini-Messier — running for the leadership as well as dual-candidate slates — former Green leader Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pedneault as well as Anna Keenan and Chad Walcott.
We will have new premiers in Alberta (October 6) and British Columbia (December 3).
