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WikiLeaks “Bombshell”: The CBC is the Enemy
While I knew that the ongoing WikiLeaks release involved memos related to Canada, I expected discussion of Prime Ministers and ambassadors. I did not, however, expect memos regarding Canada’s public...
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Humor as a Medium of Translation [Part 1]
From 2007 to 2012, in an atmosphere of moral panic about the threat of global terror, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation aired a gentle half-hour comedy called Little Mosque on the Prairie about...
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: How Little Mosque Found a Home [Part 2]
In the 1991 Broadcasting Act, in an effort to encourage more diversity in Canadian television, Canada’s Parliament gave the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation a mandate to “reflect the multicultural and...
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Jokes and the Contradictions of the Sitcom...
Jokes are an odd thing. They function through the excess of meaning they produce: we get a joke when we recognize the juxtaposition between what it says and what it means. We laugh because we are...
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Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Challenges of Distribution [Part 4]
In my last entry, I described the give-and-take that characterized the production of Little Mosque on the Prairie: as the conditions of production changed, and as the political situation evolved, the...
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Why Little Mosque Matters [Part 5]
I want to thank the editors of Antenna for asking me to contribute a series of entries on Little Mosque on the Prairie. Talking about the notion of humor as a medium for translation, the forces at work...
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A National Icon Deficit: What the Ghomeshi Scandal Illustrates About the...
Globe & Mail television critic John Doyle makes some incisive observations about the Ghomeshi scandal in a recent column. He writes that the episode illustrates “how much CBC Radio and its...
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