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Teddy Roosevelt:
^^ I spent the majority of my days in Winnipeg, Mb (about 11 years). I moved from Winnipeg to the states in 2002. And lived about 2 years in a small town in saskatchewan before moving to Mb. Of course in Toronto you can get bootlegs and mixtapes, but between in the prairie provinces you probably wont find shit. I was too young at the time for bootlegs and mixtapes anyway. But a year ago my frined told me Winnipeg got it's first hip hop/r&b station.

Suga Foot:

--- Quote from: Shallow on March 21, 2006, 07:35:52 PM ---Adon;

How about instead of setting up this board to make sure Canadian music gets played they use that money to create platforms and opportunities for Canadian music and television to strive. Then we wouldn't need a law to keep these things on the air, because the quality would be good enough that Canadians would want to hear and watch it. Putting music back in the school system in a major way would be a start. Hiring professional industry types and real musicians and TV writers/directors to come to schools. Set up a real Canadian concert venues that can be broadcasted on a real Canadian music channel and focus on talent rather than the second rate artists signed by the labels with power. And for God sakes put some money into Canadian TV production because every time I see a Canadian TV show it looks like it was made in a high school. I realize they want it to look distinct from American TV but when distinct means it looks like it's shot with a camcorder and edited on a Mac that is't a good thing. THere is so much to this country and the industry here is so shit that it'll never get properly exposed, unless some Canadian makes it huge in Hollywood as a director and producer and makes it a point focus on Canadian stuff as well as hte American stuff. Most Canadians that make it big aren't even known as Canadians. You tell the average American that Jim Carrey, Pam Anderson, or billionair director/producer Ivan Reitman are Canadian and they'll say something like "really?".

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I agree with putting more funding into schools for music & art or whatever.  David Foster actually does quite a bit in Vancouver to help out the industry.  But honestly, without the 35% Canadian content rule, I wouldn't know half of the artists in Vancouver that I do.  And look at Videofact, they'll give money to any Toronto rapper for a music video.

Canadian TV is just frustrating as hell.  CBC films everything in the East just to keep people employed.  Vancouver is the 3rd largest center for film in North America.  Look at Lions Gate films, why not use them to film Canadian stuff? We have studios all over the place, we have the people and the abilities to make good film.  But barely any Canadian TV shows are made here. 

Shallow:
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Well if they put money into the industry then they won't have any left over to put into the CRTC.





--- Quote from: Dat Nigga Ted aka The 10th Nazgûl on March 21, 2006, 08:13:48 PM ---^^ I spent the majority of my days in Winnipeg, Mb (about 11 years). I moved from Winnipeg to the states in 2002. And lived about 2 years in a small town in saskatchewan before moving to Mb. Of course in Toronto you can get bootlegs and mixtapes, but between in the prairie provinces you probably wont find shit. I was too young at the time for bootlegs and mixtapes anyway. But a year ago my frined told me Winnipeg got it's first hip hop/r&b station.

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Toronto didn't even get their first hip hop station until a couple years ago. So Winnepeg isn't far behind. But I'm going to assume the black population here is a lot bigger than in any other city in Canada and that's where a lot of the hip hop would come in from. Living in Toronto I never really got the Canadian experience. Toronto's just a less violent big American city. How's the saying go? There's Canada and then there is Toronto. What a pit this place is though. (Toronto, not Canada)

Canuck:
I think if Canadian artists actually put out good music there would be no need to for the CRTC to force us to have 1 out of ever 3 songs performed by a Canadian. Its not our fault that these artists are putting out garbage so why should we have to listen to them there are some exceptions though like K-OS put out some good tracks last year and even a few years ago Choclair and all those guys were putting out some good music, but nowadays whenever you put on The Beat 94.5 all you hear is garbage like Shawn Desmon and Keshia Chante.

Teddy Roosevelt:

--- Quote from: V.Canucks on March 21, 2006, 11:34:01 PM ---I think if Canadian artists actually put out good music there would be no need to for the CRTC to force us to have 1 out of ever 3 songs performed by a Canadian. Its not our fault that these artists are putting out garbage so why should we have to listen to them there are some exceptions though like K-OS put out some good tracks last year and even a few years ago Choclair and all those guys were putting out some good music, but nowadays whenever you put on The Beat 94.5 all you hear is garbage like Shawn Desmon and Keshia Chante.

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The problem is that Canadian music businesses don't have the resources to heavly advertise any artists like American companies do. So the CRTC comes up with stupid ways to try and give local artists a chance.

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