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The media of Canada is highly autonomous, uncensored, diverse, and very regionalized. [1] [2] Canada has a well-developed media sector, but its cultural output—particularly in English films, television shows, and magazines—is often overshadowed by imports from the United States. [3]
The promotion of multicultural media began in the late 1980s as multicultural policy was legislated in 1988. [5] In the Multiculturalism Act, the federal government proclaimed the recognition of the diversity of Canadian culture. [5] Thus, multicultural media became an integral part of Canadian media overall.
Themes and symbols of pioneers, trappers, and traders played an important part in the early development of Canadian culture. [30] Modern Canadian culture as it is understood today can be traced to its time period of westward expansion and nation building. [31] Contributing factors include Canada's unique geography, climate, and cultural makeup.
[11] [12] In the first sense "multiculturalism" is a description of the many different religious traditions and cultural influences that in their unity and coexistence result in a unique Canadian cultural mosaic. [12] The country consists of people from a multitude of racial, religious and cultural backgrounds and is open to cultural pluralism ...
They include modern media such as radio, television, and mass circulation newspapers that convey information to many people over long distances, but have short exposure times. While time-biased media favour stability, community, tradition and religion, space-biased media facilitate rapid change, materialism, secularism and empire.
Christina Stojanova is a Canadian media historian and faculty member at the University of Regina.Her work focuses on cultural semiotics in Canadian multicultural cinema, Central and Eastern European media and cinema, inter-war German cinema, and on the works of Jean-Luc Godard.
Canadian content (abbreviated CanCon, cancon or can-con; French: contenu canadien) refers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) requirements, derived from the Broadcasting Act of Canada, that radio and television broadcasters (including cable and satellite specialty channels, and since the passing of the Online Streaming Act, Internet-based video services ...
Television in Canada officially began with the sign-on of the nation's first television stations in Montreal and Toronto in 1952. As with most media in Canada, the television industry, and the television programming available in that country, are strongly influenced by media in the United States, perhaps to an extent not seen in any other major industrialized nation.