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Harold Innis (1894–1952) – political economist; author of seminal works on Canadian economic history, media and communications; Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) – communications theorist, coined phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village" Steven Pinker (born 1954) – psychologist, cognitive scientist, writer of popular science
The Greatest Canadian is a 2004 television series consisting of 13 episodes produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to identify one greatest Canadian of all time, according to those who watched and participated in the program. [1]
This is a list of programs currently and formerly broadcast by Canadian television channel History and its former incarnation as History Television. This list is current as of September 2014. This list is current as of September 2014.
Canadian Who's Who is a publication containing biographical information about 13,000 notable Canadians.Because of the absence of biographical fact-checking by the publishers (e.g. candidates send in their own biographical details without any checking), Canadian Who's Who is not used as a reference by mainstream Canadian media, and is rarely, if ever, quoted as a source, according to a ...
The channel also frequently commissions original documentary television films on historical topics, with noteworthy examples having included the World War II documentaries The Real Inglorious Bastards [6] and Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust, [7] the four-part Black Canadian history series BLK, An Origin Story, [8] and the Indigenous ...
The most-watched television broadcast in Canadian history was the gold medal game of the men's hockey tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics, played between the United States and Canada in Vancouver, with an average minute audience of 16.6 million Canadians watching the game, roughly one-half of Canada's population in 2010.
Persons of National Historic Significance (National Historic People) (French: Personnes d'importance historique nationale (personnages historiques nationaux)) are people designated by the Canadian government as being nationally significant in the history of the country. [1]
"Evaluating prime-ministerial performance: The Canadian experience." in Understanding Prime-Ministerial Performance: Comparative Perspectives (2013): 242-263. online; Azzi, Stephen, and Norman Hillmer. "Ranking Prime Ministers: Canada in a Commonwealth Context." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 49.1 (2021): 22-43. online; Schwanen ...