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Troubling wildfires ?— Vice is selling. Western Canada is suffering from wildfires. And Hollywood disapproves of Canadian content laws.

Troubling wildfires ?— Vice is selling. Western Canada is suffering from wildfires. And Hollywood disapproves of Canadian content laws.

FromThe Peak Daily


Troubling wildfires ?— Vice is selling. Western Canada is suffering from wildfires. And Hollywood disapproves of Canadian content laws.

FromThe Peak Daily

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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
May 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Vice, which started out as a tiny punk zine in Montréal before becoming the bad boy idol of new media brands, filed for bankruptcy protection. A group of its creditors put in a US$225 million bid to buy the company, an amount that would be covered by existing loans.
Western Canada has seen more than 600 wildfires so far this year, but officials say the season is just getting started.
The Motion Picture Association (MPA)—a trade group made up of major Hollywood studios, including Disney and Netflix—published a report claiming that Canada’s system for defining homegrown content is unusually narrow and out of step with the rest of the world.
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Released:
May 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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