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Enough Heat to Melt the Ice

A new generation of novels about hockey finds the action away from the rink

Stephen Smith

City Limits

That shrinking feeling

Frances Bula

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Stephen Marche
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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…