Canadian stories

Disney+ and other streaming giants make billions of dollars from Canadian audiences, but they are not required to produce a single Canadian show. FRIENDS Executive Director Daniel Bernhard and Unifor National President Jerry Dias calls for an end to the free ride for foreign streaming giants.

Samuel Piccolo imagines a near and not so unpleasant future when debt-ridden university graduates work on small-town newspapers as part of their national service.

In its 20th year, the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival has become the world’s largest presenter of Indigenous screen content, showcasing the lives, concerns and innovations of Indigenous peoples around the world.

We asked Canadians from across Canada what CBC means to them. Here are their stories.

André Bureau was a towering figure in Canadian media and broadcasting. Robert W. Brisebois remembers his friend, who passed away in April.

Refugee journalists can provide valuable perspectives, but Canadian newsrooms don’t seem to be interested.

If it weren’t for local independent journalism shining a light on the racism and injustice taking place in Thunder Bay, the rest of the country wouldn’t know about it.

Unifor’s Howard Law on former CBC head Richard Stursberg’s scathing new book, The Tangled Garden, and how we can nurture Canadian culture in the age of media monsters.

Netflix’s new partnerships with Indigenous screen organizations are to be applauded, but actually producing and showing Indigenous films to its Canadian subscribers would be more beneficial than supporting more training and skills development.