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    "Canadian Idol"

    "Canadian Idol." Reality television show, based on the British singing competition television show "Pop Idol" (2001- ), created by the UK's FremantleMedia and 19 TV, and produced by Canada's Insight Productions.

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    School and Youth Bands in Canada

    Bands came into favour in Canadian schools at the beginning of the 20th century. Educators, parents, and civic leaders recognized early the worth of the band as an adjunct to school games, dances, and other events. They also saw in it an attractive music-teaching device and an excellent means of building co-operative and coordinated behaviour and stimulating school spirit. More recently, bands have become accepted as vehicles for international cultural and educational exchange. Many Canadian school bands have undertaken international tours, winning awards and recognition.

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    Starmania

    Starmania. Rock opera, lyrics by Luc Plamondon, music by French composer Michel Berger (b 1947, d 1992).

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    The Fifth Estate

    The Fifth Estate is Canada’s leading investigative journalism program. Modelled after CBS’s 60 Minutes, it debuted on the CBC in September 1975. It continues to be a flagship series for the public broadcaster. Hosts have included Adrienne Clarkson, Linden MacIntyre, Anna Maria Tremonti, Hana Gartner, Gillian Findlay and Bob McKeown. The show has won 52 Gemini Awards, more than 15 Canadian Screen Awards, two Michener Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award and an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary.

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    The Nature of Things

    The Nature of Things is television’s longest-running science series. It debuted on CBC on 6 November 1960. Originally a half-hour program that demonstrated scientific concepts, it evolved into an hour-long documentary during renowned scientist David Suzuki’s tenure as host (1979–2023). The groundbreaking program was among the first to present scientific findings on subjects such as HIV/AIDS and climate change. Over the course of more than 60 seasons and over 900 episodes, The Nature of Things has been seen in more than 80 countries. It has received 17 Gemini Awards and seven Canadian Screen Awards.

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    The Sheepdogs

    Saskatoon blues rockers the Sheepdogs were plucked from obscurity in 2011 when they won a Rolling Stone contest. On 18 August 2011, they became the first unsigned band ever featured on the cover of the famed music magazine. The Sheepdogs have since released seven studio albums and won four Juno Awards, including New Group of the Year, Single of the Year and Rock Album of the Year in 2012. They have had two platinum albums and two platinum singles (“I Don’t Know” and “Feeling Good”) in Canada.

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    Trivial Pursuit

    Trivial Pursuit is a board game that was invented by Canadians Chris Haney and Scott Abbott in December 1979. The game quickly became a massive international success and a defining pop culture artifact of the 1980s. It ushered in a new wave of board game popularity and was called “the biggest phenomenon in game history” by Time Magazine. First introduced in Canada in 1981 and in the United States in 1982, the game had sold more than 20 million copies by 1984. Total sales are estimated to have exceeded $1 billion and more than 100 million copies worldwide. The game is named after a common term for a frivolous activity (like a board game), which also literally describes the nature of the game (players answer trivia questions in pursuit of the most correct answers). Trivial Pursuit has been translated into multiple languages and re-issued in numerous editions.

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    TVO

    TVO (formerly TVOntario; also stylized in lowercase as tvo) is Ontario’s English-language public educational television broadcaster. Founded in September 1970, its flagship station, CICA-DT (channel 19), is located in Toronto. The station is required to be carried by all pay television providers in the province, and its content is streamed for free online. TVO is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA), a crown corporation of the government of Ontario. Some of TVO’s best-known programs include Polka Dot Door, Today’s Special, Saturday Night at the Movies and The Agenda. A French-language sister station, La Chaîne française, was founded in 1987. It was renamed TFO (Télévision française de l’Ontario) in 1995.

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    Videodrome

    From Cronenberg's original story, Network of Blood, and a screenplay that he continually revised up to the final day of shooting, the film Videodrome meditates on sadomasochism, violence and pleasure in our age.

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    W5

    W5 (1966–2024) was an hour-long weekly investigative journalism news magazine program that aired on CTV. Its name refers to the central questions of journalism known as the “Five Ws” — who, what, where, when and why. W5 was Canada's most-watched current affairs and documentary program. It was also North America’s longest-running prime time current affairs program. It inspired other similar programs, such as CBS’s 60 Minutes and the CBC’s The Fifth Estate. W5 won six Gemini Awards, including two for Best News Information Series, and 14 Canadian Screen Awards, including the Gordon Sinclair Award for excellence in broadcast journalism. It was cancelled as a stand-alone program in February 2024. W5 was retained as the name for CTV News’ investigative journalism unit.

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    Warrendale

    The DOCUMENTARY FILMWarrendale (1967) covers seven weeks in a Toronto-area treatment centre occupied by twelve emotionally disturbed children, most of them abandoned by their parents.

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    Water (Film)

    Water is a rich, complex work that completes Mehta's self-described "elements trilogy," which includes Fire (1996) and Earth (1998). It is the work of a deeply committed humanist, made with tenderness and a true concern for the plight of women in similar situations.

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    Wayne and Shuster

    Following the war, they returned to Canada and worked together on radio (by 1946 they had their own show on CBC) and later on television. In 1950 they began appearing as guests on various American TV programs, including a record 67 performances on "The Ed Sullivan Show.

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    Who Has Seen the Wind

    Who Has Seen the Wind (Toronto and Boston, 1947), a novel by W.O. Mitchell, tells the story of a prairie boy's initiation into the mysteries of life, death, God, and the spirit that moves through everything: the wind. 

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    York Winds

    York Winds. Wind quintet formed in Toronto in 1972.

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