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Green Enigma

Trying to make sense of current prospects for the environment

Andrew Heintzman

A Right to Clean Air?

Constitutional protection for the environment may leave people out of luck

Bruce Pardy

Plate Appearances

José Bautista and the Temple of Dome

J.D.M. Stewart
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Rudy Buttignol

Rudy Buttignol is the president and CEO of Knowledge Network Corporation, British Columbia’s public broadcaster, and president of BBC Kids. He is the former chair of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, and founding chair of the Documentary Organization of Canada.

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Blood in the Water

Weak political support and dependence on advertising leave the national broadcaster at serious risk July–August 2013
The title of Wade Rowland’s book, Saving the CBC: Balancing Profit and Public Service, suggests an existential struggle, never settled, always in play generation after generation. This time, Rowland warns, the threat to the CBC’s survival is not only real but near at hand. There will come a time when further cutbacks to the CBC’s funding will no longer lead to quantitative tinkering with its…