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Dollar rises to 29-year high. At 91.58 cents U.S., it hasn't been this high since 1978. Also hasn't been this high since 1978: Gene Simmons, who totally found himself some amazingly killer bud last week.

It could be one of two things the sound of CBC TV's ratings plummeting or it could be the sound of the the IQs of Canadian TV watchers reaching new lows. The CBC announced its fall lineup and it's a strange mixture of mainstream trends that the CBC resists (more reality tv, quiz shows) and giant national projects meant to unify Canadians in front of their TVs (Hockey: A People's History).

So it's old news now that This Is Wonderland and DaVinci's City Hall are getting the axe from the corporation but as Kate Taylor pointed out in Saturday's Globe the reasoning is a touch odd. In summary, "the CBC plans to be more popular by being more popular." But in the end Taylor isn't sure whether Wonderland deserves saving, because asking someone what's good Canadian TV is like asking someone to define what it means to be Canadian.