Analysis Of The Canadian Magazine Dispute

The recent Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications (CRTC) (2013c) 'Broadcasting Regulatory Policy on the Distribution of Canadian Category C national news speciality services' marks a new regulatory approach to distributing competitive news and sports programming in Canada. This policy is a response to Canadians' concerns over consumer choice due to program bundling and an inability to select news and sports programs on a stand-alone basis (CRTC, 2013c; CRTC, 2014). Based on the Commission's public notice on 'Regulatory Framework for Broadcasting Distribution Undertakings and Discretionary Programming Services', the new regulation demonstrates an effort to reduce national news and sports program regulations and to

Not only does the Americanization of the Canadian economy change the way Canadians live and conduct business, it also destroys the distinct Canadian culture that Canadians have worked so hard to create. The Americanization of the Canadian economy has lead to the American control of the corporate structure of Canada, high levels dependance on American capital and to the state of the Canadian economy being a mirror image of the state of the American economy. With the high number of American investments in Canada, it is seen as to what a great extent the corporate world of Canada is being controlled by Americans. This leads one to wonder whether or not the Canadian economy ever become independent, or will it forever be dependant on the American economy for

For example, most magazines focus on American celebrities and American trends. People’s magazine is very popular, with 3 527 541 copies paid and verified. It’s an American magazine that talks about celebrity gossip. Reader’s Digest is also quite popular, with 4 288 529 copies paid and verified. It’s a general interest family based magazine.1 There is also Twist, a magazine popular among teens. It teaches them about all the different beauty and fashion trends that are currently popular.2 However, these magazines almost never touch upon what’s happening in Canada, as people assume that what’s going on in the USA must also be happening in Canada. While that’s not completely true, events happening in the USA will likely affect Canada in one way or another. Pierre Elliotte Trudeau even stated, “Living next to the United States in some way like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even tempered the beast: one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”3 Finally, Canada covers a lot of what’s happening in the USA but the states don’t do the same with Canada. As Canadian author Margaret Atwood said, “The boarder separating the two countries is like a one-way mirror through which Canadians can see the United States but Americans can’t see

The freedom and right to be able to freely express thoughts, opinions, and concerns are critical in the efficiency and fluency of American and Canadian democracy. With such a large and vast nation, there is bound to be a parallel in size of diverse thinking and perspective. In order to properly and directly voice these opinions,there needs to be a type of media to do so with. In her 1854 editorial, Mary Ann Shadd Cary goes on to discuss the importance of one particular form of media; the newspaper. Cary is able to explain that need for expression of opinion through media, the need for “colored canadians” to specifically have their own paper, and that need to inform misinformed citizens on Canada’s issues through her own style of diction to

Having lived in Canada when I was 8 before the US-Canada magazine dispute occurred, I found myself thoroughly engrossed in Canadian culture. It seemed a perfect culture, built to protect domestic interests and despite the potential division between countries, created a safe environment where people were unafraid to leave doors unlocked, due to almost no crime. The peaceful and respectful nature of most Canadians isn’t just a fluke, the country was designed this way, and one of the primary influencers of this strategy is the media. Watching the news in Canada, the focus is positive, the message is positive, there is no forced fear of sense of doom as we see here in the US. Life is about being sustainable, not so much a struggle to the top of the food chain, but working together, instead of separating and segregating groups. That is except the region of French Quebec; however, Quebec is like a whole new country in itself.

Throughout, the course of Issues in Diversity I have been able to grasp a better understanding

The Canadian government identified magazines as an important touchstone of Canadian natural identify. If the government recognizes this as a national identify, then those who purchase it are showing loyalty to their father land and preserving their culture for the younger generation.

Ever since the 1950’s more of the American culture has been known to influence Canadian ways of living through the media.

If Canada wants to protect their national identity, they must all embrace each other’s cultures, instead of creating multiple broadcasts that preach one view or culture. Without state governed media, the dominance of US products in Canada would diminish its identity as a nation, fail to serve the public interest and create less profits causing more advertising and less content in the media. Government regulated media proves to be more favourable and beneficial than policies based off of self-regulated solutions when addressing Canada’s media industries and cultural

The topic of the editorial is in China there is not much people can voice their opinions while in Canada we can.(not?)The topic of the editorial is about a woman named Anastasia Lin that can’t get a visa to attend Miss World contest because of her actions, advocating for freedom of religion and expression in China.

For this year’s theme, Conflict and Compromise, I chose the Reynolds Affair. The affair was between an 18th century politician, Alexander Hamilton and Maria Reynolds, infamous as it led to the Reynolds Pamphlet. It was a source of income for the woman’s husband, James Reynolds, and the confrontation that came from Reynolds accusations showed no signs of what they were looking into, embezzlement. I picked this topic because I’d been hearing of the huge musical Hamilton for a while. I looked into it and was fascinated. When this year’s topic arrose, I looked for something that would be unique. When I discovered the affair, I knew it was the topic for me.

The Canadian Magazine Dispute 1. — In order to maintain local cultural material being sold in Canada, Canadian legislature had to put a halt to constant import of magazines to encourage Canadian newsstands to have enough of their own. More then 90 percent (globalization101.org., 20??) of Canadian magazines were imported from other areas around the world. As thought in this lesson, media is a major cause of local neglect.

It’s hard to say how much motivation was a genuine desire to protect Canadian culture. It must be very difficult to maintain their cultural differences being attached to the US. I suppose I’ve never really considered a magazine to be an item that fosters a sense of myself as a US citizen. To me they are entertainment and education.

Q.1: To what extent do you think the U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute was motivated by genuine desires to protect Canadian culture?

The U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute had been going on long before the American government sought intervention of the World Trade Organization (WTO). In 1920s, high tariffs were forced on foreign magazines by the Canadian government, with the aim of protecting domestic periodicals against competition from alien publishers (particularly from US). Importation of split-run editions of foreign magazines were further prohibited in 1965, so long as they were printed outside Canada. However, Time Warner (a US magazine company) began printing their split-run editions of their Sports Illustrated magazine in Canada, using satellite technology, and avoided additional taxes by claiming the edition as a Canadian periodical. In 1995, the Canadian government, in an attempt to stop US split-runs editions, added a new tax on what they categorize as split-run publications. This eventually resulted in a dispute between US and Canada that almost ended up into a trade war. Fortunately, mediatory efforts from the WTO ended up in a settlement between the two nations and removal of trade barriers for split-run magazines. (Levin Institute, n.d.).