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  Policy Matters: The JG Effect

  What does the Jian Ghomeshi case have to do with culture policy? Well, nothing and everything.

  Columns By Barri Cohen • Published December 5th, 2014

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  Pointed View: Leveraging the Crumbs

  With little leverage remaining in our own marketplace, we have no leverage with Netflix.

  Columns By Barri Cohen • Published October 7th, 2014

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  Policy Matters: Disrupt or Be Disrupted

  Can the CBC “disrupt” its abysmal decline into irrelevance?

  Columns By Barri Cohen • Published September 30th, 2014

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  Pointed View: Regulate Netflix

  Never accept the argument that we artists should just be glad for what we are given.

  Columns By Rob King • Published September 25th, 2014

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  Policy Matters: “The Future of Television Will Not be Televised”

  Why Netflix may not be Canada’s Bogeyman

  Columns By Barri Cohen • Published July 3rd, 2014

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  Pointed View: On Ravida Din

  Director Jennifer Baichwal shares her thoughts on Ravida Din’s abrupt departure from the NFB

  Columns By Jennifer Baichwal • Published May 1st, 2014

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  Pointed View: SIFT-ing Through a Week of Wonders

  In memory of Anthony Minghella, gone too soon, leaving us with fewer vibrant original films to experience

  Columns By Gale Zoë Garnett • Published February 13th, 2014

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  Pointed View: Still King of the Hill?

  Can the long-format documentary survive in a fragmented, interrupted, Twitterized world?

  Columns By James Buffin • Published January 7th, 2014

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  Policy Matters: “Let’s Talk TV”....in Canada?

  We’re being force-marched into an unbundled, digital future.

  Columns By Barri Cohen • Published November 28th, 2013

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  Policy Matters: The Five Percent Problem

  To read the news, you’d think things were pretty terrific in Canada’s non-scripted land. Yet many factual and documentary producers and filmmakers are feeling parched.

  Columns By Barri Cohen • Published October 18th, 2013