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The growth of the CanWest Global System as a third service in the Canadian Broadcasting System is examined with particular attention to its national infrastructure and non-network status. Through the internalization of international joint ventures and co-productions, CanWest Global…

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This article examines media coverage of the Meech Lake and Canada rounds of the constitutional crisis. How media reporting may have influenced the negotiation process, the controversies that erupted over alleged political bias in the CBC's reporting and over…

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This paper examines the importance of international co-productions/co-ventures to Canadian television program production and the motives of participants in choosing this mode. The objective is to improve our understanding of this competitive strategy in the increasingly global television market…

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This paper closely examines the phone-in community radio service of Kahnawake as it emerged and evolved during and after the Kanehsatake and Kahnawake/governments' confrontation in the summer of 1990. Reflecting on an incident in which a community group in…

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This study offers brief sketches of four twentieth-century cultural analysts and activists. It examines their work and illustrates the extent to which a fairly sophisticated McLuhanesque sensibility was operating in Canada in intellectual and government circles from the 1920s…

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We examined the coverage of ethnic Chinese in The Toronto Star and the Vancouver Sun from 1970 to 1990. Coverage and the diversity of stories grew dramatically. However, the largely positive slant of most 1970 stories was later balanced…

Abstract: This paper examines the issue of inter-ethnic conflict from the dual perspectives of intercultural and intergroup communication. Based on reviews of literature in each of these areas, the paper argues that instances of inter-ethnic conflict tend to be interpreted…