Posts Filed Under: CBC
Were Torontonians feeling indifferent toward Queen Elizabeth II during her 1959 royal visit?
By
Jamie Bradburn
Today: Kevin O'Leary launches his new book, Dan Hill gets up close and personal, Steam Whistle debuts its February art show, and young opera stars shine in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito.
By
Jessica Buck
Nominated for: weakening one of our national institutions.
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Carly Maga • Illustration by Matthew Daley
The annual battle of the books is already heating up.
By
Natalie Zina Walschots
Today: buy crafts at the Moose Show, the Trinity College Dramatic Society presents Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, writers read their works at WordStage, and the Switch Off sketch comedy battle goes down at Comedy Bar.
By
Jessica Buck
How Canadian viewers watched American presidential-election coverage in the age before livestreams.
By
Jamie Bradburn
In his new book, released last month, one of Canada's favourite interviewers interviews himself.
By
David Fleischer
Today: Learn to craft your heritage story; Steam Whistle launches its October art exhibit; and The War of 1812: Been There, Won That screens under the stars at Fort York.
By
Jessica Buck
A radio documentary explores Parliament-Funkadelic's temporary stay in Toronto.
By
Chris Dart
Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city.
By
David Fleischer
How Toronto survived, and even enjoyed, the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
By
Jamie Bradburn
650 job losses, scaled back international service, ads on Radio 2 among measures to cope with federal budget cut.
By
Steve Kupferman
As CBC Radio's traffic reporter signs off after four decades on the air, we look back at the beginning of his broadcasting career.
By
Jamie Bradburn
"In view of the fact the Toronto Police Service depends on budget deliberations headed by the mayor, and in view of the fact this year's police budget that averted layoffs was reached only in the week before this incident, I concluded CBC could not rest on [Chief Bill] Blair's account."
By
Hamutal Dotan
Nominated for: loving Toronto, and telling us all the reasons why we should, too.
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Sarah-Joyce Battersby • Illustration by Jeremy Kai
Master of the cartoonist's pen but burdened by inner turmoil, George Feyer is a long-neglected mid-century pop culture figure.
By
Kevin Plummer
We need the CBC—badly. But they certainly didn't do themselves any favours playing Princess Warrior in Rob Ford's driveway.
By
Mark Bourrie
"The media have a responsibility to act with integrity and professionalism... I’d say the CBC and the Toronto Star in particular have lost their journalistic compass."
By
Hamutal Dotan
