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DOC Fights for Independent Filmmakers at the CRTC - POV Magazine As Canada awaits results from May's CRTC hearings, there is a looming concern that even favourable determinations might be hobbled by larger forces.

From our new issue: @docorg.bsky.social's @jvcarrington.bsky.social takes over the Policy Matters column and reflects on the implications of looming CRTC decisions and a changing landscape for creatives povmagazine.com/doc-fights-f...

Ya. Their UAE/crypto and Tiffany trump investigations barely made a blip.

Documentary Organization of Canada Releases Community Consultations Report - POV Magazine The Documentary Organization of Canada releases the report What We Heard that draws upon community consultations with filmmakers.

The Documentary Organization of Canada @docorg.bsky.social releases the report from community consultations about the state of documentary filmmaking in Canada. Filmmakers share concerns about funding, distribution, and market access. povmagazine.com/documentary-...

Everybody was cool when Clinton/ Bush / Obama / Biden were killing whoever they felt like.

Trump just dropped the fake pretense and calls it what it is.

Venn diagram of people who believe negotiation is the solution to Ukraine/Gaza.

⭐ Great News!

DOC pleased to welcome Julian Carrington as the new Executive Director of the Documentary Organization of Canada!🎉👏

🔗 Read DOC's official press release here: docorg.ca/about/media-...

DOC’s National Board Chair, Min Sook Lee, appeared before the CRTC to advocate for funding for long-form, point-of-view documentaries. She delivered a powerful message: if we lose critical storytelling, we lose a tool essential to our democracy!

🔗Learn more: docorg.ca/advocacy/crt...

The Motion Picture Association Canada is about as Canadian as the East India Company was Indian. #crtc #cancon

Opinion: The CRTC has failed to protect the Canadian broadcasting industry As a governing body, it has done nothing to hold outsiders to the same rules and regulations as our own media outlets

Important piece in the Globe and Mail:

"The CRTC has failed to protect the Canadian broadcasting industry"

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Some great bedtime reading for your kids.

Hollywood is a sector with a major trade surplus. This post will just hurt that. The world will watch less American product if he keeps harping on this.

This makes streamers c11 push back absolutely irrelevant.

Film tariffs will never be a reality... and it will only hurt American companies.

It's always "the supreme court has decided it's not legal to skin and eat puppies, Alito and Thomas dissent."

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

NYT headline: Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them. To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his allies.

You don’t need to have read Faust or sit through a single contracts class at Harvard Law to know this was a terrible idea. Any grade schooler with a casual familiarity with Rumpelstiltskin could have seen this coming.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

Great opportunity at my absolute favorite, must read cover-to-cover, trade magazine.

When bezos was talking about "personal liberties", I guess that didn't include free speech or the right to due process.

Or maybe he specifically meant his own personal liberty. Not anyone else.

I don't think he bought it to support journalism. He bought it to neutralize an ideological threat.

Nowhere in the text or history of the Founders' vision is there an enumerated restriction on the responsible harvesting of canine protein.

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Chop-in - virtuoso pianist of the romantic era

For Toronto folks!

Tomorrow’s free screening has gone rush but any empty seats will be made available 15 minutes before show time!

It’s a big cinema (650 seats) so I want to say chances are decent! 🤞🏽

Great program from the folks @nsicanada.bsky.social. Congrats to all the producers.

I had a great time in this program last year. Learned a lot and made meaningful connections to peers and mentors.

Honestly, this is the best two seasons of television that I've watched since The Wire.

It's just what I needed right now.

Besides the timely political stuff, as a parent of a neuro atypical child, I was in tears at the sibling relationship. When he said "It's an honor to be your brother... "

More like Love Canal than Levittown

Just started this list for Canadian documentary community!
Please help add to it!
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I re-read this classic every so often.

Esp when I gaze upon hedge fund managers I know personally...

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