Snobike Mike
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Ya but Federal Liberals aren't like Provincial Liberals..................right?
federal election - who are you voting for
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Ya but Federal Liberals aren't like Provincial Liberals..................right?
Same **** different toilet
Ha Ha.
One of my racing buddies is a steel worker down in Hamilton and he's NDP to the core. Infact I think the NDP may be a little right wing for him.
Anyway, Trudeau was there on Thursday making a speech about steelworkers pensions and my friend is standing there and Trudeau walks right buy him, so my friend shouts out, "Hey, Justin. I was a big fan of your fathers. By the way when are Mick and the Rolling Stones touring Canada again"
Ouch. That one was definitely below the belt, but you just can't beat that Liverpool wit.
It took security about 15 seconds to eject him
I couldn't even imagine what he would have said to Harper.
One of my racing buddies is a steel worker down in Hamilton and he's NDP to the core. Infact I think the NDP may be a little right wing for him.
Anyway, Trudeau was there on Thursday making a speech about steelworkers pensions and my friend is standing there and Trudeau walks right buy him, so my friend shouts out, "Hey, Justin. I was a big fan of your fathers. By the way when are Mick and the Rolling Stones touring Canada again"
Ouch. That one was definitely below the belt, but you just can't beat that Liverpool wit.
It took security about 15 seconds to eject him
I couldn't even imagine what he would have said to Harper.
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ashkan
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Ha Ha.
One of my racing buddies is a steel worker down in Hamilton and he's NDP to the core. Infact I think the NDP may be a little right wing for him.
Anyway, Trudeau was there on Thursday making a speech about steelworkers pensions and my friend is standing there and Trudeau walks right buy him, so my friend shouts out, "Hey, Justin. I was a big fan of your fathers. By the way when are Mick and the Rolling Stones touring Canada again"
Ouch. That one was definitely below the belt, but you just can't beat that Liverpool wit.
It took security about 15 seconds to eject him
I couldn't even imagine what he would have said to Harper.
Prove it. Show us the over/under estimate for electrical supply in Ontario over the various administrations. If they have to plan ahead every year then it's like a budget and sometimes it'll fall over, sometimes under at year end. The truth of your statement will be shown by the trend over time, not one data point.
Boots
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In case this happens to anyone tomorrow, someone commented: If this should happen to you tomorrow. There is a book that the Poll Clerk (the person sitting next to the person who asked you for your ID) uses to keep track of spoiled ballots. Make sure that this is updated in your presence. You can verify the number on the back of the ballot. Once the information is updated the spoiled ballot goes into a separate bag.
It’s pretty bad when you're voting for the person who is the "least worse" of a completely useless bunch or destroying you're ballot completely.
I got a newsletter from a candidate in our area over the weekend and the spelling and grammar were atrocious. I would have though you needed to have at least finished High School as a pre-requisite. I would love to see some of their resumes. I've come to the conclusion that most people who run for office have failed at everything else in life, its certainly true of Trudeau. This is their last opportunity, and I believe Parliament is actually a government scheme to create jobs, otherwise there would be another 600 homeless on the streets of our major cities
I'm a partner in a content production business, and about a year ago we pitched a Canadian version of Spitting Image to all the major networks except CBC as they basically hung up the phone as soon as they heard the concept. We had spoken to ITV and they were keen to negotiate rights, and we had backing from a producer in Hollywood.
We had envisioned Kathleen Wynne as a cross between a Vampire and Dominatrix dressed in black leather, whipping her male subordinate cabinet and squeezing blood out of Ontarians. I always wanted to do a sketch where she was interviewed with Ellen where Wynne tries to make out with her. I actually get the sense that Kathleen would have liked this.
Justin would be a wimpish, gormless mommy's boy, completely browbeaten by Maggie. We were actually going to model Maggie after Maggie Thatcher in the original spitting image and Justin after Prince George in Black Adder. He would come home to find the Rolling Stones in the house with Keith talking a hit of the bong, Mick french kissing Maggie. We had this vision of the tongue on the record labels and needed to do something with it.
Steven Harper was going to be the robot out of Forbidden Planet. Completely wooden and devoid of any personality, but would have the hair sitting to top of the glass dome.
Peter Mansbridge was going to be a corpse decomposing behind the anchor desk. The camera cuts to him and he's sleeping, and a bug stick comes on from the side and pokes him in the head to wake him up.
It’s funny though, we really couldn't come up with a persona for Mulcair. I wanted to portray him as a 1970’s bearded, pipe smoking, patch’s on the sleeve of his sports jacket, brown corduroy pants wearing leftie, but where is the satire in that
We were going to have everyone, Wendy Mesley, Rob Ford, John Tory, Mike Duffy as a pig at a trough, The Provincial Premiers, Bill Shatner, the list goes on. If you were Canadian you were fair game.
We were even going to throw in some international politicians like Obama, Hillary, Bill, David Cameron, and Ed Miliband – Ed would have been easy. We were going to use Wallace from Wallace and Gromit for him. Throw in come actors like Jim Carrey, Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, The Rock. Religious figures like Charles Mcvety and the Imam Steve Rockwell. Sports guys like Jose Bautista and Mike Clements. Even dig up some people from the past like Mandella, Gandhi, Kennedy, etc.
We had 2 brilliant writers, Craig Neeley and Kryz Hajduk that have been doing the stand-up circuit for years and also contributing scripts to late-night in the US. They had the first 4 episodes pretty much written.
Anyway, I thought this was a brilliant idea , but all the Canadian networks were too **** scared to touch it - even the network that carried Ed the Sock. So much for all their talk about freedom of speech and satire during the Charlie Hedbo thing. They weren't even willing to take the risk to satirize a corrupt politician.
I still think this is a great idea. We looked into doing it as an on line production but there is no way we could come close to breaking even. We did a couple of scenes so I might put the Kathleen Wynne one up on YouTube
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Canadian networks aren't touching anything these days. I don't think its being scared as everyone has put their checkbook away until the CRTCs rules and upcoming decisions get set in stone. The relaxing on CanCon requirements and cuts to arts funding from the conservative government has insured that we see very few original Canadian ideas. Instead all of the networks are playing it safe at the moment buying pre-formatted British and American shows and just doing Canadian versions of them (ie Amazing Race, Master Chef, Big Brother). I own a production company and got out of broadcast for that very reason. I have a lot of good friends that are head of development for much bigger production companies and they are having a hard go at getting anything into the Canadian broadcast market anymore. Most have just given up and concentrate on the American market.
The hardest part of creating television in Canada is that networks never fund anything 100%. They expect you to sell half the rights to the states and try and make up losses with tax credits which are drying up. Its an unsustainable system if we want good original Canadian content.
I have two good friends in charge of development at Vice and Redbull which are putting money into content but the budgets are very small and they require global exclusive rights which makes it impossible to sell rights and re-coup extra costs. Its also ages before you can re-coup costs as a production company which means most who are in production have to go into debt in order to make it happen and hope that all goes right so they get their money at the end. Its a rough go which is why I'm staying in Commercial and branded content.
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Crowd Funding...if enough people agree that it's a great idea as you say you should have no problem getting some start up funds.
I know where you're coming from. 60% of what we do today is for the US, 25% for Asia, the other 15% for Canada, mostly for Rogers, Shaw and Bell media. Rogers and Shaw seem to be pulling the plug on anything that's not news or sports so that market is drying up. At least Bell are still doing documentaries and current affairs like W5. I remember back in the day when Moses was running Chum/City, he did so much original programming, very creative guy. We used to work on Fashion TV, Sex TV and Speakers Corner if you remember that
We also did a ton of segments for Much. The thing about this was that I brought them the funding for production as well, all they had to do was make a slot and sell advertising. It was pretty much risk free, they needed $0 investment up front and the slot was late night so that Ad revenue is pocket change so worst case it a minimal ad revenue loss.
They all outright said they were afraid to air it.
The other approach is to take it to someone like AUX or Bite, I'm sure Raja would air it, but but their audience is so small it's hard to pump cash into original programming.
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I remember back in the day when Moses was running Chum/City, he did so much original programming, very creative guy. We used to work on Fashion TV, Sex TV and Speakers Corner if you remember that
I worked at Much/MTV from 2000-2014. I watched it go from inventive creative outlet for talent (pretty much what youtube is now) to a corporate machine pulling funding on anything that wasn't already proven in an American market previously. Sad to see but the web is the new frontier and broadcast is run by the bean counters now and not visionaries.
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I have found that most of those currently at the top were people rewarded for their number crunching and not for creativity. The shareholder system does not make great TV.
Have you approached any web content outlets to see if they would pick it up? Something like Jash? I have friends that found an original home for Gayle Pyle there and now its in its second season they are getting picked up by networks. It seems you have to make a show successful or demonstrate audience numbers before they will bite these days.
Anyway I'm off topic and have a script to write. Back to the Election programming folks!
Yup. Its unfortunate. It seems like Bell Media is now run by Bell Canada and they are applying that phone network operator mentality to all decisions.
At one time I believe Much was better than MTV, but they got into programming with things like Jackass and did really well.
Talked to Lexicon and Amazon. I'd like to try and keep it Canadian though as I cringe every time I see what the US did to Top Gear
Yup. Its unfortunate. It seems like Bell Media is now run by Bell Canada and they are applying that phone network operator mentality to all decisions.
At one time I believe Much was better than MTV, but they got into programming with things like Jackass and did really well.
Talked to Lexicon and Amazon. I'd like to try and keep it Canadian though as I cringe every time I see what the US did to Top Gear
Much was great when City owned it and City was pretty cool when it was independent. That's when they could broadcast ed the sock. Now they wouldn't dare..
