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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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  • Editorial

    Vancouver Feature: The Carnegie Library’s Own Tut

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. The Carnegie Community Centre is a thriving refuge in the Downtown East Side. It occupies what was once the Carnegie Library — not only the main library for Vancouver, but for years the resting place of the Vancouver Museum’s most popular attraction: Princess Diane, an eternal visitor from Luxor, Egypt. She has proven to be a mummy with a very mysterious past.

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  • Macleans

    Versace's Killer Kills Self

    In the end, Andrew Cunanan chose to go out the way he had lived: dramatic, elusive and in control. When he was discovered last week in a houseboat in Miami Beach - just 41 blocks from where he shot Gianni Versace dead and vaulted into instant notoriety - Cunanan did not hesitate.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on August 4, 1997

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  • Macleans

    Versace's Strange Murder

    South Beach, the glitzy, sensual Miami neighborhood where Gianni Versace lived and where he died so suddenly last week, has its own way of doing things.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on July 28, 1997

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    Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature

    The Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature is awarded to the author of an outstanding body of work in children's literature. The winner, selected by a three-member, independent judging panel, is announced annually at the Writers' Trust Awards event. The prize is worth $20 000.

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    Victoria Conservatory of Music

    Victoria Conservatory of Music. Major British Columbia teaching institution, incorporated in 1964 as the Victoria School of Music. It adopted the name 'conservatory' in September of 1968 and was affiliated with the University of Victoria from October of that year until 1978.

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    Victoria Musical Art Society

    Victoria Musical Art Society (until 1930 the Victoria Ladies' Musical Club). Founded 3 Mar 1906 to encourage local performers and to present international artists. Under its aegis Galli-Curci, McCormack, Kreisler, and others performed in Victoria.

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    Victoria Symphony

    Victoria Symphony. Orchestra based in Victoria, B.C.; at one time British Columbia's largest community orchestra and, beginning in the mid-1970s, a fully professional ensemble.

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    Video Art

    Twentieth-century video art is rooted in 19th-century science. It was the discovery of the cathode ray tube and the electron in 1897 which provided the basis for the electronic reproduction and transmission of images.

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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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    Ville Émard Blues Band

    Ville Émard Blues Band (familiarly Ville Émard). 'The aggregation of session musicians and hired hands that became the catalyst of Quebec's rock revolution in the mid-1970s' (Juan Rodriguez, Montreal Gazette, 11 Aug 1979).

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    Violin and Viola Playing and Teaching

    Violin and viola playing and teaching. By the late 17th century the popularity of the instruments known as viols had been surpassed by those of the violin family (with the exception of the bass viol, which became the modern double-bass).

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    Violinmakers Association of British Columbia

    The Violinmakers Association of British Columbia.

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    Visual Art

    Parallels and Contrasts in the Visual Arts and Music: A comparative study of the development of the two sister arts in Canada had not been published, although Maria Tippett's Making Culture (Toronto 1990) reviews broad trends in anglophone Canada from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.

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    Visual Arts: Dissemination in Québec

    The transfer of art from the artist's workshop to the various concerned publics takes place through the usual communication routes (the press, radio, television), as well as through channels specific to the artistic domain: museums, galleries, specialised journals.

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