From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V7 #49 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Wednesday, June 23 2004 Volume 07 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- important msg to lovers of canadian music: stop harper! [Andrea Chiu Subject: important msg to lovers of canadian music: stop harper! Dear fellow Canadians and foreign fans of Canadian music, The up-coming election is one of the most important federal elections in recent history. If the Conservative party leader, Stephen Harper is elected, Canadian music's existence is endangered. [Not to mention television, film, and media.] Harper and the Conservatives are ready to lose CanCon regulations and eliminate the CRTC [Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission] completely. CanCon, short for "Canadian Content," ensures that a certain percentage of music played on radio airwaves is Canadian [last I heard it was 30%]. CanCon regulations helped you hear Emm Gryner for the first time. You hear Sarah McLachlan, Sarah Harmer, Rufus Wainwright, Hawksley Workman, and your other favourite Canadian musicians on the radio because of CanCon. We need the CRTC and we need Canadian music, film, television and media. Don't let Harper, the Conservatives or any government take it away from us. Please visit http://www.stopharper.org to see the list of performers rising against the Conservatives and to learn more about this very important issue. Seven days until voting day... Cheers, Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:58:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Smirky Subject: Re: important msg to lovers of canadian music: stop harper! Umm... excuse me? We down here in the United States have to deal with Bushy the Clown! ===== I'm a famous artist. Honest!: http://smirky.com/ At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:40:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: Re: important msg to lovers of canadian music: stop harper! On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Andrea Chiu wrote: > The up-coming election is one of the most important federal elections > in recent history. If the Conservative party leader, Stephen Harper is > elected, Canadian music's existence is endangered. [Not to mention > television, film, and media.] Andrea, Thanks for your very important e-mail. I'd like to mention that not only are Stephen Harper and the Conservatives a threat to arts funding in general, but they are also a real threat to many of the media organizations we take for granted, such as the National Film Board and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In particular, Harper has said in past statements that he wants to commercialize English television and CBC Radio 2: http://www.friends.ca/News/Friends_News/archives/articles05200401.asp Conservative party members have also questioned the role of the CBC and why it receives government funding. In particular, former Tory provincial leadership candidate and current federal MP candidate Tony Clement has said: "Do we need the CBC, in its current format, when there are so many private broadcasting channels available? When's the last time we truly looked at the CBC and its mandate and the role of the taxpayer in funding that?" Considering 78% of Canadians believe that the CBC is important for maintaining our cultural identity, and 89% of Canadians believe that funding for the CBC should be maintained at present levels or increased, it is vitally important that we protect this unique institution from the hands of those who would sell pieces of it off for quick profit. I urge all Canadians not only to throw their support behind the StopHarper.org effort, but to get out there and vote against the Conservatives next Monday. - - Julian - -- [ Julian C. Dunn * ] [ WWW: www.aquezada.com/staff/julian/ * www.dreaming.org/~julian/ ] [ PGP: 0xFDC205B9 - 91B3 7A9D 683C 7C16 715F 442C 6065 D533 FDC2 05B9 ] [ "half a love is better than no love at all" - nerissa nields ] ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V7 #49 **********************************