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If You Like Fox News, You'll Hate Canada (And Canada will hate you in return)
The American Enterprise ^
| September 2, 2003
| Marni Soupcoff
Posted on 09/02/2003 3:07:22 PM PDT by quidnunc
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Last year, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that unscrambling foreign satellite signals (read transmissions of Rugrats reruns on American Nickelodeon or The OReilly Factor on Fox News) is against the law. And I dont mean against the law in the way that littering is against the law, with violations punished by sternly disapproving looks from elderly fellow citizens. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are actually actively engaged in raiding satellite television shops, seizing DirecTV satellite equipment, and hanging onto it for months before finally levying charges of conspiracy to sell and distribute American satellite systems.
Wouldn't want anything subversive (read: American) to contaminate Canada's moral superiority, eh?
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:07:23 PM PDT
by
quidnunc
To: quidnunc
Canada is a wacky place. When I vacationed there last summer it was like all the people were on thorizine.
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:10:35 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
(If you Sprinkle When You Tinkle,...Be a Sweetie and Wipe the Seatie......)
To: quidnunc
For all it's flaws, it's hard to knock Canadian TV when it comes to hockey. When I was living in Calgary the Stanley Cup Finals could be seen on any one of four stations -- CBC (English), CBC (French), the local Calgary station, and the Spokane, Wash. affiliate of whichever U.S. network was carrying the games at the time.
To: cmsgop
You mean they aren't?
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:18:17 PM PDT
by
dts32041
("moderate Arab" he's the one who detonates his bomb via remote control.)
To: quidnunc
I thought only communist countries did this ... oops ... Nevermind...
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:19:48 PM PDT
by
NorthGA
To: quidnunc
You mean they can't buy DISH or other satellite TV?
To: quidnunc
A good friend who happens to be Canadian was here yesterday.
She is from Vancouver....She was _BOGGLED_ that our basic cable included 90 channels. She complained that she couldn't get HBO. Their movie channel is "Cinemax".
That said, Cable modem + premium channels + basic cabel was $90 Canadian dollars....which is a nice deal.
-Mal
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:23:56 PM PDT
by
Malsua
To: quidnunc; All
Perhaps there is a Canadian lurking here that can clarify:
Canadian Broadcasting regs have a Domestic Content quota which I believe amounts to something like 30% of broadcast material must be Canadian. Got a vivid demonstration of this the last time I ventured North and the radio had a disproportionate amount of Neil Young, Avril Lavigne and others hailing from Canada. A lot of the stuff was, in all probability, NOT something you would hear unless they had that provision in place. Not all of it was bad, mind you, but I would guess that many acts wouldn't make it in a more free market system.
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:33:57 PM PDT
by
Range Rover
(Karma is a boomerang...)
To: quidnunc
The CRTC is not going to let Canadians watch Americas Comedy Central because theyd probably realize what absolute crud is shown on the Canadian Comedy Network (man cannot live by SCTV reruns alone) and theyd never tune in again.
They're not missing much. I'd trade same stale SCTV reruns for some lame SNL reruns. Actually, the Canadian govt would probably love Comedy Central; they never miss an opportunuty to bash Bush and Republicans, particularly that whiney little pansy Jon Stewart.
To: Range Rover
It's true.
Most of our cable channels have to show hours and hours of The Littlest Hobo, Friday the 13th: The Series and Danger Bay to fill their quotent. Makes them almost completely unwatchable.
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:43:42 PM PDT
by
Hazzardgate
(RIP Paul Kersey)
To: Malsua
Cinemax is 10000% better than the
cr@p on hBO
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:49:36 PM PDT
by
steplock
(www.FOCUS.GOHOTSPRINGS.com)
To: quidnunc
Satellite dishes are also illegal in Canada... just like in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:50:51 PM PDT
by
SunStar
(Democrats piss me off!)
To: Liberals are Evil Socialists!
You mean they can't buy DISH or other satellite TV? Yep. Illegal.
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:52:13 PM PDT
by
SunStar
(Democrats piss me off!)
To: Liberals are Evil Socialists!
l live in Canada and have an illegal dish.Don't tell the Government.l subscribe to Fox.lt helps me keep my sanity
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:54:40 PM PDT
by
lindsay
To: cmsgop
Canada is a wacky place. When I vacationed there last summer it was like all the people were on thorizine.The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is a little like that too. Nice folks, but when they're not actually speaking a lot of them just sit with eyes glazed over like puppets with their strings cut.
Say, isn't Keanu Reeves Canadian?
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:57:10 PM PDT
by
wizardoz
(Bomb Hollywood!)
To: SunStar
I thought that there was at least Canadian satellite service available to Canadians and it was just illegal to receive American satellite TV.
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posted on
09/02/2003 3:58:32 PM PDT
by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
To: quidnunc
bump
To: quidnunc
Man, I dunno. I'm all for free choice, but it strikes me that not a great deal is gained by choosing voluminous American crap over less voluminous Canadian crap.
But I gotta hurry home. Perfessional Rasslin's on tonight...
To: quidnunc
Did I read that correctly, they can arrest you for selling DirecTV dishes up there? I mean, if I lived there I couldn't the NFL Package? WTH! Oh Canada!! Glorious and Free?? I don't think so.
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posted on
09/02/2003 4:05:35 PM PDT
by
mc5cents
To: quidnunc
The Commission is currently considering an application by Canadian cable companies to add Arabic language news network al-Jazeera to the selection of television channels available for Canadian consumption. Its just the American stuff the cultural puritans at the CRTC cant stomach.What happened to the nice quiet friendly neighbor to the north that we considered extended family? This sounds like some third world dictatorship. That's scary.
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