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The site was home of the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library from 1957 to 1995. In December 1996, Canada's first (and ultimately only) Virgin Megastore opened on the lower level; Virgin eventually decided to exit the Canadian market and sold the location to HMV in September 2005. In late 2011, HMV Canada, now separately owned by Hilco UK, announced plans to close the Burrard location in January 2012 as part of a corporate refocusing towards smaller locations.
The upper levels were taken over in fall 1997 as studios for the newly launched independent TV station VTV. VTV later became part of the CTV Television Network, and the site now serves as CTV's west coast headquarters. The site selection, and indeed much of the VTV format, had been inspired by Toronto station Citytv and the iconic downtown studios that were at the time synonymous with the station. Incidentally, CTV would later acquire the Toronto building in question (but not Citytv).
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9 Channel Nine Court
9 Channel Nine Court (temporarily known as 9 Dave Devall Way for several months beginning in April 2009) is the civic address of an office and studio complex of Bell Canada's media unit, Bell Media (formerly CTVglobemedia) in the Agincourt neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, alternatively known as the CTV Toronto Studios, CFTO-TV Studios or Bell Media Agincourt.
It is currently home to the offices and main studios of the CTV Television Network, its local station CFTO-TV, and several other Bell Media properties including TSN, Canada's 24-hour sports news service. Previously the building also served as the official corporate head office of CTVglobemedia until it was relocated to 299 Queen Street West in 2008.
The building's "vanity" civic address refers to the over-the-air channel on which CFTO, the building's original tenant, broadcasts. It is located at the northwest corner of the junction of Highway 401 and McCowan Road. The CTV network began to use the CFTO facilities for CTV News broadcasts beginning in the mid-1960s, but its head offices were located in Downtown Toronto until after its acquisition by CFTO's parent, Baton Broadcasting, in 1997. Operations for several other TV channels have been centralized there since then.
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Barrie is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada, on the western shore of Lake Simcoe. Although located in Simcoe County, the city is politically independent. Barrie is within the northern part of the Greater Golden Horseshoe, a densely populated and industrialized region of Ontario.
In 2011 the city's population was 135,711 residents, making it the 34th largest in Canada. The Barrie metropolitan area has a population of 187,013 residents, making it the 21st largest, and one of the fastest growing census metropolitan areas in the country.
At its inception, Barrie was an establishment of houses and warehouses at the foot of the Nine Mile Portage from Kempenfelt Bay to Fort Willow. The Nine Mile Portage is an aboriginal transportation route that existed centuries before Europeans came to Simcoe County. The portage linked Kempenfelt Bay through Willow Creek, connecting Lake Simcoe to the Nottawasaga River which flows into Georgian Bay off Lake Huron.
Barrie played an integral role in the War of 1812. During the War, the city became a supply depot for British forces, and in addition, the Nine Mile Portage was adopted by the British Military as a key piece of their supply line which provided a strategic path for communication, personnel, and vital supplies and equipment to and from Fort Willow and Georgian Bay / Lake Huron. Today, the Nine Mile Portage is marked by signs along roads in Barrie and in Springwater Township. You can follow the scenic path from Memorial Square all the way to Fort Willow.
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BookTelevision is a Canadian, English-language, Category A specialty channel that broadcasts programming relating to books, literature, and various media. It is owned by Bell Media.
In November 2000, Learning and Skills Television of Alberta, a company majority owned by CHUM Limited (60%), was awarded a category 1 television broadcasting licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) called BookTelevision - The Channel, described as "a national English-language Category 1 specialty television service that will feature magazines and talk shows, dramas and documentaries that are exclusively based upon printed and published works, and offered with additional programming that provides an educational context and promotes reading."
The channel was launched on September 7, 2001. Although, shortly after the channel's launch, "The Channel" was dropped from its name and logo, resulting in a name change to simply BookTelevision.
On February 15, 2005, CHUM completed the purchase of the remaining interest in LSTA, bringing its ownership to 100 percent. A year later, in July 2006, Bell Globemedia (later renamed CTVglobemedia) announced that it would purchase CHUM for an estimated $1.7 billion CAD, included in the sale was LSTA and its interest in BookTelevision. The sale was subject to CRTC approval and was approved in June 2007, with the transaction completed on June 22, 2007. In 2008, LSTA (then known as Access Media Group) was wound up into CTV Limited (the renamed CHUM Limited).
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Canada (
/ˈkænədə/) is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Spanning over 9,900,000 km2 (3,800,000 sq mi), Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the longest land border in the world.
The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French colonial expeditions explored, and later settled, along the region's Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy; the Canada Act 1982 severed the vestiges of legal dependence on Britain.
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CFGO
Coordinates: 45°25′39.1″N 75°41′28.2″W / 45.427528°N 75.691167°W / 45.427528; -75.691167 (CFGO's broadcast location)
CFGO is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 1200 on the AM dial in Ottawa. The station broadcasts sports programming, using the brand name The Team 1200.
The station was launched in 1964 by Confederation Broadcasting, with the call letters CKPM. It originally broadcast at 1440 AM.
In 1970, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission revoked Confederation's licence, alleging that the company had failed to live up to its financial and management obligations. Confederation appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, who ruled in April 1971 that Confederation had not had a fair hearing before the CRTC.
In 1972, majority interest in the station was sold to Baton Broadcasting. The station also adopted its current CFGO callsign that year and moved to a Top 40 music format to compete with top-rated CFRA. The station moved to its current frequency (with a better signal, from 1440AM to 1200AM) in 1986, and was sold to Rawlco Communications the following year. Playing Starship's "We Built This City" as the inaugural song on the new 1200 kHz (1200AM) transmitter, Rawlco transitioned the station from Top 40 to adult contemporary as "Go-AM 12, Adult Rock." In 1988, Rawlco converted the station back to a contemporary hit radio format, using the brand name Energy 1200. The station subsequently changed its callsign to CJBZ and its brand name to The Buzz in late 1997, with a focus on more alternative and underground rock.
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CFRA
Coordinates: 45°25′39.1″N 75°41′28.2″W / 45.427528°N 75.691167°W / 45.427528; -75.691167 (CFRA's broadcast location)
CFRA is a Conservative talk radio station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, owned by Bell Media. The station broadcasts at 580 kHz on the AM band.
Frank Ryan founded the station, which began broadcasting with a 1000 watt transmitter at 560 kHz on May 3, 1947. The first studios were located at the Ottawa Auditorium on O'Connor Street, where the station spent its first ten years. In 1962, the station moved to its present frequency (580 kHz) and increased its daytime power to 50 kW, and nighttime power to 10 kW.
After Ryan's death in 1965, ownership of the station passed to his wife Kathleen, who subsequently sold CFRA and sister station CFMO-FM to CHUM Limited in 1968.
Between 1980 and 1984 on Saturday afternoons from 2 to 5pm; CFRA had once held an Oldies Show by Satellite that was hosted by American comedian Gary Owens of formerly of the Laugh-in TV show; it was entitled Soundtrack Of The Sixties, where song requests were offered by postcard to the station as an entry towards the yearly-end prize.
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CHUM Limited
CHUM Limited was a media company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1945 to 2007. Immediately prior to its acquisition, it held full or joint control of two Canadian television systems — Citytv and A-Channel (formerly NewNet, now CTV Two) — comprising 11 local stations, and one CBC Television (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) affiliate, one provincial educational channel, and 20 branded specialty television channels, most notably MuchMusic and its various spinoffs. In addition, CHUM controlled 33 radio stations across Canada. At various points in its history, CHUM owned other radio stations and ATV/Atlantic Satellite Network in Atlantic Canada.
CHUM was taken over by Bell Globemedia (now Bell Media), owner of the CTV Television Network in July 2006. Regulatory approval was made conditional on the sale of CHUM's five Citytv stations to Rogers Communications. CTVglobemedia took control of CHUM's other assets effective June 22, 2007. The company itself has since been renamed CTV Limited (now CTV Inc.) and continues operation as a subsidiary of Bell Media. Its radio broadcasting division, CHUM Radio has since became Bell Media Radio after Bell Canada took control of CTV's assets, thus becoming Bell Media. Its Toronto radio stations TSN RADIO 1050 and 104.5 CHUM-FM continues use "CHUM" as their station's call sign. However, CHUM no longer operates as a broadcasting company separate from its new parent.
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CKLW
CKLW is a 50,000 watt AM radio station broadcasting on 800 kHz and located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and serving Windsor and Detroit. Additionally, its signal can be heard as far west as Belding, Michigan; as far east as Batavia, New York; as far south as Edgewood, Kentucky; and as far north as Posen, Michigan.[citation needed]
It is best known for having been one of the most influential Top 40 stations in the world in the 1960s and 1970s. During this era, CKLW used a very tight Top 40 format known as Boss Radio, devised by radio programmer Bill Drake. However, CKLW never actually used the handle "boss" on the air, just the style. Rather than a "Boss 30", CKLW's weekly music survey was known as a "Big 30". And instead of calling itself "Boss Radio", CKLW called itself "The Big 8". During this period it was the top-rated radio station not only in Windsor, but across the river in Detroit, and even in cities as far away as Toledo and Cleveland in Ohio.
In its current incarnation, CKLW is a news/talk radio station primarily serving listeners in Windsor and Essex County in Ontario, Canada, with a mix of local and syndicated programs, including some programs from the United States.
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CKWW
CKWW is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 580 AM in Windsor, Ontario. The station plays an oldies format targeted to the Windsor/Detroit market.
The original applicant for the CKWW licence was Royce Frith (later to be a Canadian Senator), but he sold the station to Geoff Stirling before it went to air. The station was launched by Stirling on March 29, 1964, with the official first day of broadcasting on March 30, 1964 [1]. Initially CKWW featured a strictly MOR or "good" music format with a heavy news and information commitment, making it the Windsor equivalent of Detroit's WJR. In 1967, sister station CKWW-FM was launched (later CJOM and now CIMX).
Stirling sold the stations in 1984, and the station dropped its MOR/adult contemporary music programming to adopt a news-talk format in 1989.
In 1993, CHUM acquired CKLW and CKLW-FM as well. CKLW (by then a Music of Your Life station) and CKWW swapped formats, with CKLW becoming the news-talk station and CKWW adopting the adult standards format.
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CN Tower
The CN Tower is a communications and observation tower in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Standing 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) tall, it was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years until the completion of Burj Khalifa and Canton Tower in 2010 and Tokyo Skytree in 2012. It remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, a signature icon of Toronto's skyline, and a symbol of Canada, attracting more than two million international visitors annually.
Its name "CN" originally referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower. Following the railway's decision to divest non-core freight railway assets, prior to the company's privatization in 1995, it transferred the tower to the Canada Lands Company, a federal Crown corporation responsible for real estate development. Since the name CN Tower became common in daily usage, the abbreviation was eventually expanded to Canadian National Tower or Canada's National Tower. However, neither of these names is commonly used.
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CNBC
Coordinates: 40°53′55″N 73°56′21″W / 40.89861°N 73.93917°W / 40.89861; -73.93917
CNBC (officially the Consumer News and Business Channel until 1991) is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers around the world. In 2007, the network was ranked as the 19th most valuable cable channel in the U.S., worth roughly $4 billion. It is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
The CNBC channel had its beginnings around 1980 as the Satellite Program Network (SPN), showing a low-budget mix of old movies, instructional and entertainment programs. The channel later changed its name to Tempo Television. After initially signing a letter of intent to acquire Tempo,NBC eventually opted for a deal to lease the channel's transponder in June 1988. On this platform, and under the guidance of Tom Rogers, the channel was relaunched on April 17, 1989 as the Consumer News and Business Channel. NBC and Cablevision initially operated CNBC as a 50-50 joint venture, choosing to headquarter the channel in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
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CP24
CablePulse24 (CP24) is a Canadian English language Category A specialty news channel owned and operated by Bell Media. Based in Toronto, it focuses on local news from the Greater Toronto Area and Southern Ontario, although it also covers national and international news. It is distributed through cable in Southern Ontario and direct broadcast satellite nationally.
The channel was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1996 as Pulse 24, and launched on March 30, 1998 as CablePulse 24 (CP24) on March 30, 1998, under the ownership of CHUM Limited and minority partner Sun Media, owner of the Toronto Sun daily newspaper. The network was named as an extension of CITY-TV's newscasts, which were then known as CityPulse.
On December 1, 2004 CHUM Limited acquired the remaining interest in CP24 (giving it 100% of its shares), when the Sun's owners sold their 29.9% share in CP24 after acquiring its independent broadcast station Toronto 1 (now Sun News Network), the same day when CHUM Limited took control of Craig Media and its assets.
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CP24 Breakfast
CP24 Breakfast is a Canadian morning television news show that airs on CP24, the show airs weekdays from 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 7:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. on Saturdays and 7:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. on Sundays.
There is also an early weekday edition of CP24 Breakfast titled Before Breakfast that airs from 5:00 - 5:30 a.m.
CP24 Breakfast first aired on March 26, 2009, displacing the simulcast of Citytv Toronto's Breakfast Television, which is now owned by Rogers Media. On the same day, CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media) relaunched its Toronto-based oldies music radio station, 1050 CHUM, as an all-news radio station CP24 Radio 1050. The station operated primarily as a simulcast of CP24's television counterpart, which was later reverted to an all-sports radio format as TSN Radio 1050 as of April 2011. Prior to the launch of CP24 Breakfast, from February 2009, until March 25, 2009, CP24 had its own news inserts during commercial breaks on BT known as More On CP24 in which CP24 anchors would do extended morning news updates. Unofficially Citytv hosts had constantly referred to Breakfast Television being "only on Citytv, Cable 7" several months before CP24 launched its own new morning show.
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Greater Toronto Area
The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is the largest metropolitan area in Canada, with a 2011 census population of over 6 million. The Greater Toronto Area is defined as the central city of Toronto, along with four regional municipalities surrounding it: Durham, Halton, Peel, and York.
The Greater Toronto Area is different from the Census Metropolitan Area of Toronto, which covers a smaller region. As of early 21st century, the regional span of the Greater Toronto Area is sometimes extended to include the city of Hamilton, Ontario and its surrounding region, to form the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, an urban area which has a total population ranked among the top 50 in the world.
The term Greater Toronto has been used in writing as early as the 1900s, although at the time, the term only referred to the former City of Toronto and its immediate townships and villages, which became Metropolitan Toronto in 1954 and became the current city of Toronto in 1998. The usage of the term involving the four regional municipalities came into formal use in the mid-1980s, after it was used in a widely discussed report on municipal governance restructuring in the region and was later made official as a provincial planning area. However it did not come into everyday usage until the mid- to late 1990s. In 2006, the term began to be supplanted in the field of spatial planning as provincial policy increasingly began to refer to either the "Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area" (GTHA) or the still-broader "Greater Golden Horseshoe". The latter includes communities like Barrie, Guelph and the Niagara Region. The GTA continues, however, to be in official use elsewhere in the Government of Ontario, such as the Ministry of Finance.
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MuchMusic
MuchMusic (often referred to simply as Much) is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. MuchMusic is dedicated to music-related programs, pop and youth culture.
MuchMusic was licensed on April 2, 1984 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to CHUM Limited. Shortly thereafter, MuchMusic was launched on August 31, 1984 as one of the first Canadian cable specialty channels on the air. It was headed by John Martin and Moses Znaimer, the channel's founders. On June 22, 2007, CTVglobemedia gained control of MuchMusic as a result of a takeover of CHUM Limited.
The first video played on MuchMusic was "an early music-to-film synchronization short from the 1920s which featured Eubie Blake performing Snappy Songs." The first video made specifically for television air play was Rush's "The Enemy Within".
Bell Canada gained control of MuchMusic through its takeover of CTVglobemedia on April 1, 2011, thus renaming the company's name to Bell Media and giving the channel a new look and a new logo, as well as airing television shows, mainly dramas and reality shows.
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Ontario
Ontario /ɒnˈtɛərioʊ/ is one of the provinces of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province or territory and fourth largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa.
Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay to the north, Quebec to the east, and to the south by the U.S. states of Minnesota, Michigan (portions to the west), New York (portions to the east), Ohio and Pennsylvania. All but a small part of Ontario's 2,700 km (1,677 mi) border with the United States follow inland waterways: from the west at Lake of the Woods, eastward along the major rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence River drainage system. These are the Rainy River, the Pigeon River, Lake Superior, the St. Mary's River, Lake Huron, the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River, Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and along the St. Lawrence River from Kingston, Ontario to the Quebec boundary just east of Cornwall, Ontario.
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Oshawa
Oshawa (2011 population 149,607;CMA 330,594) is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It lies in Southern Ontario approximately 60 kilometres east of downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of both the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe. It is now commonly referred to as the most eastern part of the Toronto CMA. It is the largest municipality in the Regional Municipality of Durham. The name Oshawa originates from the Ojibwa term aazhaway, meaning "the crossing place" or just "(a)cross".
Oshawa is as of 2011, the "Automotive Capital of Canada". The automobile industry, specifically the Canadian division of General Motors Company, known as General Motors Canada, has always been at the forefront of Oshawa's economy. Founded in 1876 as the McLaughlin Carriage Company, General Motors of Canada's headquarters and major assembly plants are located in the city. The lavish home of the carriage company's founder, Parkwood Estate, is a National Historic Site of Canada, and a backdrop favoured by numerous film crews, and has been featured in many movies including Studio 54, Billy Madison, Chicago, and X-Men.
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Queen Street West describes both the western branch of Queen Street, a major east-west thoroughfare, and a series of neighbourhoods or commercial districts, situated west of Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Queen Street begins in the west at the intersection of King Street, The Queensway, and Roncesvalles Avenue. It extends eastward in a straight line to Yonge Street where it becomes Queen Street East; eastbound Queen TTC streetcars loop at Neville Park Boulevard near Queen Street East and Victoria Park Avenue in The Beaches neighbourhood.
Queen Street was the cartographical baseline for the original east-west avenues of Toronto's grid pattern of major streets. The western end of Queen (sometimes simply referred to as "Queen West") is now best known as a centre for Canadian broadcasting, music, fashion, performance, and the visual arts. Over the past twenty-five years, Queen West has become an international arts centre, and a major tourist attraction in Toronto.
Since the original survey in 1793 by Sir Alexander Aitkin, commissioned by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, Queen Street has had many names. For its first sixty years, many sections were referred to as Lot Street. The first lots laid out in the new city of York (which would be renamed Toronto in 1834) were given to loyal officials who were willing to give up the amenities of modern cities such as Kingston to take up residence in the forests. These 40 hectares (99 acres) lots were placed along the south side of the first east–west road laid in York, Lot Street. In 1837 Lot Street was renamed in honour of Queen Victoria.
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Southern Ontario
Southern Ontario is a region of the province of Ontario, Canada. It is the most densely populated and southernmost region in Canada. Situated south of Algonquin Park it covers between 14 to 15% of the province, depending on the inclusion of the Parry Sound and Muskoka districts.
Southern Ontario differs very greatly from Northern Ontario. The region has a larger population, different climate, and different culture than its northern counterpart. Southern Ontario can also be broken into smaller subregions, such as Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, Southwestern Ontario, and the Golden Horseshoe.
Southern Ontario can be distinguished from Northern Ontario because it is far more densely populated and contains the majority of the province's cities, major roads, and institutions. (The north, in contrast, contains more natural resources and remote wilderness.) Although it has no saltwater coastline, the region has an abundance of fresh water coastline on three Great Lakes (Huron, Erie and Ontario) as well as smaller lakes such as Lake Simcoe and Lake St. Clair. It is a major vineyard region and producer of Canadian wines.
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Toronto
Toronto (/təˈrɒntoʊ/, colloquially /ˈtrɒnoʊ/) is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from the Mississaugas of the New Credit. The settlement was later established as the Town of York and proclaimed as the new capital of Upper Canada by its lieutenant-governor, John Graves Simcoe. In 1834, York was incorporated as a city and renamed to its present name. The city was ransacked in the Battle of York during the War of 1812 and damaged in two great fires in 1849 and in 1904. Since its incorporation, Toronto has repeatedly expanded its borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities, most recently in 1998.
With over 2.6 million residents, it is the fifth most populous city in North America. Its metropolitan area has over 5.5 million residents. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region in Southern Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe, which has a population of nearly 9 million people as of 2011. The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 5,583,064, and the Greater Toronto Area had a population of 6,054,191 in the 2011 Census. Its cosmopolitan and international population reflects its role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. Toronto is one of the world's most diverse cities by percentage of non-native-born residents, with about 49% of the population born outside Canada. Toronto is also consistently rated as one of the world's most livable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Mercer Quality of Living Survey.
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Toronto City Hall
The City Hall of Toronto, Ontario, Canada is the home of the city's municipal government and one of its most distinctive landmarks. Designed by Finnish architect Viljo Revell (with Heikki Castrén, Bengt Lundsten, Seppo Valjus) and landscape architect Richard Strong, and engineered by Hannskarl Bandel, the building opened in 1965. It was built to replace Old City Hall, which was built in 1899. The current City Hall, located at Nathan Phillips Square, is actually Toronto’s fourth city hall and was built in order to replace the former city hall due to a shortage of space. The area of Toronto City Hall and the civic square was formerly the location of Toronto's Old Chinatown, which was expropriated and bulldozed during the mid-1950's in preparation for a new civic building.
In 1958, an international architectural competition was launched by Mayor Nathan Phillips in order to find a design for the New City Hall. This competition was won by Finnish architect Viljo Revell whose winning proposal came first amongst submissions from forty-two countries. Revell’s design consists of twin towers surrounding a white disk-like council chamber which is mounted on a raised platform, with entrances located below that are open to the public. There is also a ramp from the square that connects to the podium green roof and also leads to the council chamber. The two towers are of unequal height as the east tower is taller than the west. The City Hall is nicknamed “The Eye of the Government” because it resembles a large eye in a plan view. Revell died a year before the New City Hall was completed.
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Alex Pierson
Alex Pierson is a Canadian news anchor.
She began working in television in 1995 at CHCH-TV in Hamilton, and later became an employee of CKAL-TV in Calgary. A few years later she returned and began working at CKVR-TV in Barrie, followed by her joining CITY-TV in Toronto.
For a few years she was the co-anchor of Toronto's 11 p.m. CityNews with Mark Dailey, as well as a reporter for CityNews at Six and cp24. She left Citytv in September 2006. After a hiatus from television news, she returned and joined CIII-TV as a reporter. After 4 years reporting on courts and crime and anchoring the weekend news, Pierson left to take an anchor position with Sun News Network.
In 2011, the Sun News Network announced Pierson would be co-host of The Roundtable, the network's morning show, along with Pat Bolland and Andrea Slobodian.
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Amber MacArthur
Amber Dawn MacArthur (born June 27, 1976 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian television and netcasting personality. MacArthur is currently the co-host of BNN's App Central.
MacArthur also produces and co-hosts her own video podcast, called commandN, and co-hosts the TWiT podcast network's Social Hour (successor to net@night/Inside the Net). MacArthur is known for the series Call for Help, but has also hosted on Torrent and Gadgets and Gizmos for G4techTV Canada. MacArthur worked for over a year for Citytv's CityNews and CP24, and she had returned to the now CTV-owned CP24 as New Media Specialist and was the host of Webnation. She previously hosted and produced a show for Xbox called "Girls Go Geek" with Christopher Dick that features women in technology.[citation needed]
MacArthur is originally from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and lives in Toronto. She received an undergraduate degree in English from Dalhousie University, and studied journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She enjoys running, snowboarding, randomly browsing the Internet, wrist watches, not collecting wrist watches, usability articles, and spontaneous road trips. Her brother is Jeff MacArthur. She and Christopher Dick have one son named Connor, born on February 8, 2009 .
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Ann Rohmer
Ann Margaret Rohmer (born 2 March 1958) is a television personality on CP24 in Toronto, Canada.
In 1979, she hosted the syndicated program Show Biz. Hired by the Global Television Network, she was a host on the award-winning magazine show That’s Life. Following that she was a features reporter on CTV's Canada AM.
In 1986, she joined Citytv as the CityPulse Weekend sports anchor. She was the first Canadian female sports reporter allowed to interview athletes in their changing rooms. Three years later, she began waking up at 5:00 a.m. to host BT-Breakfast Television - a routine she maintained for a 12-year run. Deciding it was time for a change, in October 2001, Rohmer became Anchor for CP24 and host of City Online, a week daily interactive talk show after CityNews @ Noon that gives viewers the chance to comment on the specific news as it is covered, viewers either participate in a phone poll or call into the show (there is also Toll Free number that the viewers can call in ) or fax or e-mail to speak on the show. Rohmer is also Joined by guests for the specific news covered. In February 2002, she also took on hosting duties for CP24's new real estate show, Hot Property. She also hosts Animal House Calls. Rohmer will sometimes fill in as host of HomePage for Jee-Yun Lee and Perfect Fit for Tonya Rouse. Rohmer is also well known for her support of the World Wildlife Fund and other animal-related charities. Ann currently hosts CP24 weekdays starting at 9am and lasting through the afternoon. She also anchored the new CP24 program More On CP24 (added news coverage during commercial breaks of CityTv's Breakfast Television), the 'Live at Noon' newscast that gets the most up to date Weather/Traffic and chats along with Co-Host Stephen LeDrew as well as various CP24 weekday talk shows. As of March 2009, Rohmer is host of CP24 Breakfast.
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Anne Mroczkowski
Anne Mroczkowski (/mrɔːzˈkaʊskiː/, mroch-KOV-skee) is a Canadian TV reporter and news anchor. She is currently co-anchor of Global News Hour, along with Leslie Roberts, a job she started on June 1, 2010.
She is a Gemini-award winning television journalist, beginning her career at Global TV, then moving on to Citytv's CityNews (formerly CityPulse) newscast in Toronto. She was the senior co-anchor of CityNews at Six, with Gord Martineau, from 1987 until she was let go on January 18, 2010 in a round of staff cutbacks.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario to a Polish and Slovak immigrant family, Mroczkowski was raised in Toronto. Divorced from her husband in 2006, she lives in Bloor West Village.
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Avi Lewis
Avram David "Avi" Lewis (born 1968) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, host of the Al Jazeera English show Fault Lines, and former host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) current-affairs program On the Map.
Avi Lewis is the great grandson of Moshe Losz (Lewis), an outspoken member of the Jewish Bund who left Svisloch, Poland (today Belarus) for Montreal in 1921, with his wife Rose (née Lazarovitch) and three children, after being interrogated by the Russians for days and threatened with death or the Gulag for his political activity. Avi Lewis is the grandson of former federal NDP leader David Lewis and the son of politician and diplomat Stephen Lewis and journalist Michele Landsberg. Avi Lewis is married to journalist and author Naomi Klein; his sister Ilana Landsberg-Lewis is married to musician and activist Lorraine Segato.
Lewis grew up in Toronto, Ontario, and attended Jarvis Collegiate and Upper Canada College. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1988.
Lewis was featured on the November 20, 2001 "Life & Times" episode of The Lewis Family.
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Beatrice Politi
Beatrice Politi BA is a Canadian television journalist and is currently working for Global Television Network.
The Sudbury, Ontario native studied political science and mass media at York University and graduated with honours there. She then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism at Ryerson University. During her time at York, she worked for the university's radio station, CHRY-FM.
After graduating, she worked at Toronto cable station Rogers Television, educational broadcaster TV Ontario and public broadcaster CBC Television's Canada Now. Politi briefly worked as a reporter with CablePulse 24 in Toronto, Ontario before moving to Ottawa for Citytv, A-Channel and CablePulse24 She is now the health specialist at Global Television in Toronto.
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Bill Cameron
William "Bill" Cameron (January 23, 1943 – March 12, 2005) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A Gemini Award winner, he was a news anchor, television producer, columnist and author. After attending the University of Toronto and spending time in New York City pursuing a career in acting, he got his start on CBC Radio as a freelance entertainment critic in the 1960s before moving on to Maclean's magazine where he was an associate editor and then to Global TV in 1978 as host of Newsweek.
In the 1980s, Cameron worked for Citytv as the late night anchor for CityPulse, but was let go in 1983. Cameron's best known for his work on the CBC television from 1983 to 1999, where he co-hosted Midday, was a reporter on documentaries and an occasional anchor of The Journal, and later anchored the local evening news on CBLT in Toronto, the CBC Morning News in Halifax, and the afternoon show Newsworld International on CBC Newsworld. He left the CBC in 1999 to become vice president of communications for an online financial marketing firm. His brief corporate career ended in 2000 and he returned to journalism and writing. He also took the ethics chair at the Ryerson School of Journalism and freelanced for the National Post and The Walrus.
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Bill Hutchison
Bill Hutchison (28 April 1923 – 18 June 1982) was an Australian rules footballer.
Hutchison played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1942–1957, spending his career entirely with the Essendon Football Club. He played 290 VFL games and kicked 496 goals. He captained Essendon for seven years, from 1951 to 1957.
Generally considered one of the finest rovers ever to play the game, he was a vital part of the Bombers' premiership sides in 1942, 1946, 1949 and 1950. He was a dual Brownlow Medal winner, claiming the award in 1952 and 1953. He was typically a high finisher in the Brownlow Medal vote count, finishing third in 1948, sixth in 1950, third in 1951 and second in 1955.
In 2002 at a "Champions of Essendon" gala event, Hutchison was voted the fourth greatest Essendon player of all time. The man who was voted Champion, Dick Reynolds famously said "I don't deserve this honor... Bill Hutchison was the best player I've seen."
Hutchison is classified as a "Legend" in the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
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Cam Woolley
Cam Woolley (born January 24, 1957) is a traffic and safety reporter for CP24 and a former police officer (rank of Sergeant) with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in the Greater Toronto Area.
A 30-year veteran of the service, he became the face of the OPP as media co-ordinator for the Toronto area highway safety division. He has been regularly seen in the media since 2000, mainly in regard to forewarning of an impending traffic blitz during a long weekend on Highway 400 or providing police perspective of a major accident.
Woolley was named OPP Officer of the Year in 2005. In January 2007, there were reports that he was being courted by the Progressive Conservative party to run as a candidate in the 2007 Ontario Provincial Election. Woolley said he was considering the offer.
The Schomberg resident owns a company with his friend Bradley Patterson, an actor and firefighter, which provides emergency and military vehicles for movie shoots in Canada including 16 Blocks, Exit Wounds and Angel Eyes.
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Christine Bentley
Christine Bentley is a Canadian news anchor for CTV Toronto. She has been a part of the CTV News family since 1977.
Bentley started as a general assignment reporter, soon assigned to City Hall and later Queen's Park. Her next career move took her behind the anchor desk, which she shares with Ken Shaw on CTV News at Noon & 6:00 p.m. Bentley has been chosen "Woman of the Year" by Consumers' Choice Awards Canada, an organization that promotes business excellence in the GTA and across the country. An active member of the community, Bentley has served on the Board of Governors for Centenary Health Centre for more than a decade, and she has been active with numerous charities, including Toy Mountain and the Canadian Cancer Society. Currently, Bentley sits on the board of the Children's Wish Foundation.
One of Bentley's early assignments, during the tenure of CFTO News Director Ted Stuebing, was her foray into the Ontario countryside to report on which make for better jack 'o lanterns, male or female pumpkins.
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Cynthia Mulligan
Cynthia Mulligan is a Canadian television presenter on Citytv's CityNews.
Mulligan studied English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She started at Citytv in the CityPulse library. Before moving over to CityNews, she was a news writer for Breakfast Television. Mulligan has also been an ENG Cameraperson and a videographer. She added the duties of anchoring CP24 in January 1998 until 2008 when CTV Globemedia acquired the channel.
Mulligan currently works as a reporter on CityNews at 6 (weekdays) as an education specialist/reporter. Her work has been nominate for a Gemini Award for best local reporting.
Mulligan has two daughters. In April 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She announced the diagnosis publicly in May 2010, and has since reported on and blogged about her experiences of treatment.
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David Onley
David Charles Onley,OOnt (born June 12, 1950) is the 28th and current Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada.
Onley was a television journalist prior to his viceregal appointment. He worked primarily for Citytv as a science and technology reporter, and for the 24-hour news station CablePulse 24 as a news anchor and host of a weekly technology series, Home Page. A published author, he was founding president of the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Canada.
David Onley was born in Midland, Ontario, and raised in West Hill on Orchard Park Drive in Scarborough, now part of Toronto. He was educated at the University of Toronto, graduating with a degree in political science.
Beginning at the age of three, Onley battled with polio, resulting in partial paralysis. However, as a result of extensive physical therapy, he regained the use of his hands and arms, and partial use of his legs. Onley is able to walk using leg braces and canes or crutches, but he generally prefers to get around using his electric scooter. He is able to drive a car using hand controls for acceleration and braking.
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Denise Donlon
Denise Anne Donlon, CM (born 22 February 1956) is a Canadian executive, television producer, television host, and programme director.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she joined MuchMusic in 1985 as a host and producer. In 1992, she became the director of music programming, and was named vice-president and general manager in 1997.
From 2000 to 2004, she was the president of Sony Music Canada.
In 2005, she was appointed to the Board of Directors of CHUM Limited.
On September 17, 2008, Donlon was named executive director of CBC Radio's English-language services. She left CBC on or about July 8, 2011 and was succeeded by her 2nd in command, Chris Boyce.
She is a board member of the Governor General's Lifetime Achievement Performing Arts Awards, as well as Margaret Atwood's Long Pen Unotchit, is a trustee of Robert F Kennedy Jr's Canadian Waterkeepers, is committee member of MusiCounts. She holds two honourary doctorates (University of Calgary and University of Waterloo). She is a member of the Canadian Broadcasters Hall of Fame, she is a Lifetime Award recipient of the Toronto Women in Film and Television. In 2009 she was named one of Canada's Top l00 Powerful Women. She has won the Peter Gzowski Literacy Award of Merit (ABC Canada), a Woman of Vision Award, and Woman of the Year from Canadian Women in Communications. She holds two Gemini Awards - Special Event Coverage - Election Night 93 and in 1992, as Producer for the New Music. She won a Golden Sheaf Award from the Yorkton Film Festival for 'In Your Face - Violence in Music' in 1993. She has produced various charitable events including the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative (2008), President Clinton's 60th birthday party (2007 with Frank Giustra and Sam Feldman), Live 8 (Co-producer, Toronto 2006), Rock the Walk (Canada's Walk of Fame 2005/2006) and was involved with the Tsunami Concert of Hope event among others.
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Devon Soltendieck
Devon Soltendieck (born May 8, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec) is a former MuchMusic VJ from the city of Dorval, on the island of Montreal. He has been an anchor and reporter on CP24 since early 2010.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Soltendieck attended a summer school for two months in Villars, Switzerland. He returned to Canada to finish high school and graduated from Selwyn House School in Westmount, Quebec, then from Dawson College CEGEP. While a student at Dawson, Soltendieck helped run the school newspaper. Before he was hired by MuchMusic, Soltendieck was a student of Economics and Political Science at Concordia University and continued his education in Finance at the University of Toronto thereafter. Soltendieck is a professionally trained violinist and horn player and has taught himself to play guitar and percussion. He is fluently bilingual in English and French.
Soltendieck's career began in 2004, when he won MuchMusic's VJ Search competition at the age of 18. He was first awarded a three month contract and went on to work for the station for six years. As a VJ, Soltendieck was part of the MuchNews team, interviewing numerous celebrities and covering current events. Soltendieck was also featured as an extra in the movie Fantastic Four as a MuchMusic reporter. He was voted one of TV Guide's "Top 10 Stars on the Verge of a Major Breakout" in March 2005.
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Dini Petty
Dini Petty (born January 15, 1945 in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England) is a Canadian television and radio host. At 22, wearing a trademark pink jumpsuit and working for Toronto radio station CKEY, she became the first female traffic reporter to pilot her own helicopter. She clocked five thousand hours as pilot-in-command of a Hughes 300.
Later, at Citytv Toronto, she worked as a writer, reporter and co-anchor, with Gord Martineau, of evening newscast CityPulse at 6. There she hosted an afternoon program, Sweet City Woman. Petty also anchored CITY-TV's short-lived 5:30 p.m. news & current affairs program CityWide from May 1987 until 1989 when she left for CFTO-TV.
In 1980, a documentary camera followed her pregnancy and the birth of her son Nicholas.
On Citytv's daily talk show CityLine, Petty established herself as one of Canada's foremost television talk show hosts. She left her news anchor position to concentrate on CityLine.
In 1989, Petty moved to CFTO and the Baton Broadcasting System. Her hour-long general interest talk show, The Dini Petty Show, aired until 1996.
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Dwight Drummond
Dwight Drummond (born September 22, 1968 in Montego Bay, Jamaica) is a Canadian television journalist, currently working for CBC Television in Toronto, Ontario.
Drummond moved to Canada in 1976 and was raised in Toronto's Jane and Finch neighbourhood. He attended high school at Runnymede Collegiate Institute, and is a graduate of the Radio and Television Arts program at Ryerson University.
Drummond was Citytv's crime specialist. He started out at Citytv as a security guard on Electric Circus in 1989. He has since worked as a teleprompter operator, floor director, studio cameraman, deputy chief of assignment, anchor of CityNews Streetbeat, and videographer for CityNews. During this time, he appeared in the Maestro Fresh-Wes music video "Let Your Backbone Slide" as the cameraman at the beginning sequences.
In 1995, Drummond was accosted by two Toronto Police officers in what the officers described as a "high-risk takedown", but which was characterized by outside observers as a racial profiling assault as there was no evidence that Drummond had done anything besides driving while black. The allegation of police misconduct was one of several which contributed to a wildcat strike by police officers in the summer of 1995; current Toronto police chief Bill Blair, a supporter of community policing models, was assigned to head the affected police division in response to the strike. The incident also reportedly contributed to Drummond's own decision to move from a technical to an on-air journalist's role with Citytv.
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Farah Nasser
Farah Nasser is a Canadian journalist with CablePulse24 as of February 22, 2010. She previously anchored CityTv Toronto's 'CityNews' weekend editions at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. with Roger Petersen until she was laid off on January 19, 2010. CITY-TV announced cuts to several news programs and staff. The weekend news was cancelled, and Nasser was part of a company-wide layoff that affected 6% of CITY's staff, and several on-air presenters.
In 2001, at the age of 20, she landed a summer job with CNN in New Delhi, India. She was then a second-year radio and television student at (then) Ryerson Polytechnic University. As per a photo caption in the GTA Today newspaper of May 11, 2001, she wrote to every bureau CNN had and most required a credit course she didn't have by then, except Miami and New Delhi.
"I chose New Delhi because it's on the other side of the world," she said.
She started that job on Monday, May 14, 2001.
Farah Nasser is currently an Anchor/Reporter for CP24 and is also co-host with Nathan Downer on CP24 Live at 5:30. She is also substitute for Nathan Downer on Live at 5 & Live at 5:30.
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George Lagogianes
George Lagogianes is a Canadian television personality, currently a reporter/anchor for CP24.
Lagogianes was previously the host of Live at 5 before they changed the format of the show and changed the time from 5pm-5:30pm. He anchored the weeknight news. He was also previously the host of AutoShop.
Lagogianes graduated from Ryerson University with a bachelor's degree in radio and television arts. After graduation, he began work in 1988 as a camera operator for local Toronto television station Citytv and national music network MuchMusic, which at the time were both owned by CHUM Limited. He became a "videographer" for the CityPulse news programme in 1990, subsequently becoming a host and reporter for the national Bravo! arts network. He has also served as co-host of the national dance music series Electric Circus, and as an interviewer for Citytv's MovieTelevision, a programme which has been syndicated internationally in more than 90 countries.
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Gord Martineau
Gord Martineau (born September 23, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian television journalist.
Martineau is the senior anchor of Citytv's CityNews (formerly CityPulse) newscast in Toronto. He has been with the station since its inception, except for a few weeks in 1980 when he moved to Global Television Network as a news co-anchor for CIII. The job did not work out, so Martineau returned to CityPulse. He also briefly worked for CFTO-TV in Toronto around that time, and before coming to CITY, he was the weekend anchor of Pulse on CFCF-TV in Montreal.
Martineau has also appeared as a news anchor in a few movies filmed in Toronto, including Undue Influence, Dirty Work, and Urban Legend".
He played a similar role in the 2012 web series Guidestones.
In April 2007, Gord Martineau received a lifetime achievement award from the RTNDA for 40 years in broadcasting. 30 of those years were at his current home, Citytv Toronto.
Noted for outstanding charity work, Gord Martineau has been associated with the Kidney Foundation, the Kid's Helpline, the Fred Victor Centre, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Ireland Fund and most notably, the Herbie Fund where he has personally escorted children in need of life-saving surgery from countries as far away as the Philippines to superlative care at the Hospital for Sick Children.
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Hugh Burrill
Hugh Burrill is a Canadian television sports anchor and reporter.
Hugh was born and raised in Chalk River, Ontario. His birthday is September 9
Burrill began his career working for numerous radio stations for a few years. His first television gig was at his current home, Citytv Toronto, working as a writer for Breakfast Television. He was soon named the news producer and then he became an on-air personality as sports specialist for Breakfast Television and CityNews @ Noon. He was then moved to CityNews at Six and CityNews Tonight Weekend Editions.
On January 19, 2010, many Citytv staff members were laid off and several newscasts, including the weekend newscasts, were cancelled. Burrill became a sports reporter and substitute for Kathryn Humphreys as sports anchor. Weekend editions of CityNews returned in March 2011, and Burrill returned to his position of weekend sports anchor.
He is an avid Montreal Canadiens fan.
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Jim McKenny
James Claude "Howie" McKenny (born December 1, 1946 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a retired NHL defenceman and a sports reporter for the Citytv television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He played 604 games between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars. His nickname 'Howie' came from his resemblance to Howie Young. McKenny once said "Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental".
Jim McKenny was born in Ottawa and he moved to Toronto as a child. McKenny's personal life and career was disrupted by bouts of alcoholism developed during his teen-age years. McKenny played with the Neil McNeil Maroons of the Metro Junior A league in 1962–63. When the league folded in 1963, McKenny transferred to the Ontario Hockey Association's Toronto Marlboros, who won the Memorial Cup in 1964. As a junior, McKenny was considered the second-best defenceman prospect after Bobby Orr.
He was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the third round of the 1963 NHL Amateur Draft, 17th Overall. He was called up from the Marlies to play 2 games with the Leafs in the 1965–66 season. He was given two other opportunities to make the Leafs team in 1966-67 during their successful run for the Stanley Cup and the following season, but only played a total of eleven games. He was not promoted to the Maple Leafs for several years, attributed to a poor attitude, possibly his alcoholism and his antipathy towards the high-pressure style of coach and GM Punch Imlach. He played in the minor leagues for the Tulsa Oilers (CPHL), the Rochester Americans (AHL), and the Vancouver Canucks (WHL). McKenny and Don Cherry were roommates when on the road with the Rochester Americans.
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Ken Shaw
Ken Shaw, O.Ont is a Canadian news anchor for CTV Toronto. He is the co-anchor for CTV News at 6:00 p.m since April 2001, alongside Christine Bentley.
Shaw joined CTV Toronto as a reporter in 1979, while at the same time reporting on major Canadian news stories for American network news programs including ABC's Good Morning America, Nightline, and NBC's The Today Show. He started anchoring the 11:30 news at CTV in 1981, and was named the National Editor in 1998. From 1999 to 2001, he was weekday anchor for CTV News Channel. Prior to his television career, Shaw worked at local radio station CHFI-FM.
At the 2008 Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) Convention, Shaw was the recipient of the 2008 Gold Ribbon Award for Outstanding Community Service by an Individual Broadcaster. This award recognizes broadcasters who are devoted to enhancing and giving back to their communities. On January 25, 2010, it was announced that Shaw will be appointed to the Order of Ontario for his philanthropic work. Shaw also appears for CTV News at 6 updates during CP24's Live at 5 and Live at 5:30.
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Kris Reyes
Kris Reyes is a Canadian television journalist, who is the news anchor on Global's The Morning Show. She was formerly a reporter and anchor on Citytv Toronto's CityNews at 6, CityNews Tonight and Breakfast Television, as well as a host of the talk show CityOnline on CablePulse 24.
She left Citytv in September 2010, and subsequently joined CBC Television before moving to Global.
Born in the Philippines, Reyes moved to Canada when she was 9 years old. She later moved back to the Philippines, where she received her BA in political science from De La Salle University. She moved back to Toronto in 1999.[citation needed]
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Lance Chilton
Lance Chilton was a Canadian television journalist.
He began his career at Citytv in Toronto in 1985, hosting City Magazine and Toronto Rocks and working as an entertainment reporter for CityPulse before joining MuchMusic as a reporter and anchor for FAX in 1990. He remained with that program until 1997, when he moved to The New VR (now A Barrie/Toronto) in Barrie to anchor the station's newscasts. In the summer of 2010, Chilton left "A" News, to start a new career in the Real Estate business. He anchored his last newscast on June 15, 2010.
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Larysa Harapyn
Larysa Harapyn (born c. 1973) was an entertainment reporter on CityTV in Toronto and was an anchor on the now-defunct Star! Daily program seen throughout Canada on the Star! specialty channel. In 2007, she was one of a number of staffers who worked both at CityTV and at CTV, but later left CTV. In December 2008, Rogers (the new owners of CityTV) eliminated entire CityNews entertainment unit, including, Larysa Harapyn. Since her leaving of Citytv, Larysa has yet to be seen on camera once again as of June 2010.
Larysa started in the CHUM family at all-news station CablePulse 24 and quickly became an entertainment reporter on the regular news broadcasts. She has interviewed notable personalities including Lenny Kravitz. She has also hosted some entertainment specials including Everything Hef (about Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner) and a pre-game show to the Academy Awards. Larysa recently showed her comedic side by appearing in a number of CityTV commercials, promoting upcoming movies on the station.
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Lorne Honickman
Lorne Honickman is a lawyer and journalist in Toronto, Canada. He is currently legal analyst for and a regular panelist on The John Oakley Show on radio station CFMJ, where he also acts as guest host when the occasion arises. Previously he was a television presenter and a legal specialist on Toronto television station CP24. He was seen on a weekly one-our television show Legal Briefs on CP24 and CourtTV Canada.
Honickman has the following degrees:
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Mark Dailey
Mark Edward Dailey (August 1, 1953 – December 6, 2010) was an American-born Canadian television journalist and announcer. He was the host of 11 p.m. weeknight CityNews newscasts in Toronto, Ontario, and a prominent continuity announcer voicing interstitial program announcements on CITY-TV.
Dailey was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio to parents John and Rose-Marie (Genetta) Dailey and was one of three children (sisters Kathleen and Colleen). Dailey graduated from Ursuline High School and then studied law enforcement at Youngstown State University, in Ohio, worked as a state trooper (Ohio State Highway Patrol), and became a crime reporter for stations in Ohio (first at WNIO 1540-AM - now known as WYCL - and then ABC affiliate WYTV in the late 1960s) and at radio station CKLW in Windsor, Ontario before moving to Toronto in 1974. Prior to CityTV, Dailey worked at Q-107 and CHUM Radio. Dailey worked at Citytv for 31 years. Mark's famous line was "This is Citytv, everywhere".
As a voice actor, Dailey voiced characters in the animated series Medabots, The Ripping Friends, Beyblade, Grossology, My Dad the Rock Star, Spliced, and others. He also appeared (as a news reporter) in several Canadian films including Nicholas Campbell's Boozecan (1994), Claire's Hat, The Life Before This, and Childstar.
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Mary Garofalo
Mary Garofalo is a Multi Award Winning anchor, and investigative correspondent.
Anchor and Investigative Reporter Mary Garofalo, is a Canadian-born American television journalist.
Her first job in New York City was as the prime time News Anchor for WPIX television nightly news where she was hired to replace Donna Hanover, ex-wife of former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani. Garofalo was seen nationally in the U.S. covering stories for the syndicated news magazine show and News Corp Property A Current Affair. She worked as a reporter and anchor until the show ended in 1996. She spend six years covering national and international stories including the Persian Gulf War, Bill Clinton/White House scandal, the Branch Davidian: Waco Siege, the Susan Smith murder case and the Sicilian Mafia in Italy.
In 1996 she was hired to create and head an investigative unit for WNYW FOX 5 NEWS. As Senior Investigative Anchor and Reporter for Fox Broadcasting Company in New York City, at WNYW-Fox 5 News her tenacious reports with earned her a reputation as an "electronic pitbull" and one of the toughest reporters in the city. Her hard hitting investigations landed con artists behind bars, uncovered Political corruption and exposed countless scams. She was on the front lines covering the attack on the World Trade Towers September 11. Mary has won 7 Emmys and has been honored with dozens of nominations.
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Matte Babel
Matte Babel (born October 13, 1980) is a Canadian television personality. Formerly a VJ for MuchMusic, where he co-hosted Much on Demand, The IT List and Much 911. He also served as a morning host on Toronto's all-news channel CablePulse 24. He has also made appearances in music videos such as Rich London's The Answer and in k-os' 4, 3, 2, 1 and I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman. He appeared in an episode of Degrassi.
He left CP24 in 2011 to become ET Canada's new LA correspondent.
Babel was born in the Toronto district of Driftwood Ave.
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Merella Fernandez
Merella Fernandez is a Canadian reporter and was an anchor for CityNews in Toronto.
Born in Karachi on 22 November 1973 to Goan parents Eulogio and Maura, she is the youngest of six children. She moved to Canada with her family at the age of one and settled in Toronto.
She is a graduate of Carleton University's Journalism program and began her career in television at CTV answering phone calls. She moved on to writing for CTV News and Canada AM before moving to City TV in 1998 where she began working as a writer. Soon after, she became a reporter and anchored CityNews' weekend newscasts alongside Francis D'Souza. She was then moved to CityNews at Five, weekdays at 5:00pm alongside Dwight Drummond.
On January 19, 2010, CITY-TV announced cuts to several news programs and staff. The 5pm news was cancelled, and Merella Fernanadez was part of a company wide layoff that affected 6% of CITY's staff, and several on-air personalities.
As of April 2011, Merella return to CTV as news correspondent with CTV News Channel in Toronto.
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Michael Hainsworth
Michael Hainsworth is a business reporter for CTV Toronto and CTV affiliates across the country. He anchors The Close on Canada's financial news network, Business News Network (formerly Report on Business Television). He also files business reports for Toronto all-news channel CablePulse24 and national cable news network CTV News Channel. Hainsworth also co-hosts App Central with Amber MacArthur, television's first weekly smartphone app review show according to David, Silverberg. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/305139. Retrieved 29 March 2011. .
A veteran Toronto broadcaster, Michael got his start in radio at Mix 99.9 in 1988 producing overnight music and current affairs shows while still in high school. Hainsworth's 11 years in radio include 6 at the all news station 680 News. During his tenure as a reporter for the station, Hainsworth won awards, including the 1998 Best Spot News award from Toronto Police for his breaking news coverage of the crash of the RAF Nimrod during the Canadian International Airshow. He later went on to anchor afternoon drive before moving to the business desk.
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Nneka Elliott
Nneka Elliott was a weather anchor, reporter and traffic specialist at CP24 from July 2008 until May 2011. She lived in St. Vincent and the Grenadines before moving to Canada. She graduated from Ryerson University's radio and television program in Toronto in 2006. Previous to joining The Weather Network, Elliot was a reporter, audio editor and anchor for CFRB in Toronto. Elliot has also co-hosted a weekend radio program at HITZ FM in St. Vincent and wrote for its news station. She has an interest in geography and climate, and continued on to work for The Weather Network. She was also a member of Canadian Idol's top 100 in season 2.
Most recently, Nneka was part of the CP24 team, working as a weather/traffic specialist from July 2008 until she announced her resignation from CP24 on election day May 2, 2011
Nneka has announced that she would start her own media skills development company called The Media Huddle based in Toronto. It services media professionals to develop various skills to hone their brand in the media world while connecting with other media professionals. The seminars have featured speakers: Trey Anthony, Tavis Smiley, Danielle Restivo from LinkedIn Canada, Social Media guru Donna Messer, and Dalton Higgins.
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Omar Sachedina
Omar Sachedina is a Canadian television journalist, currently a news anchor and reporter for the CTV Television Network.
Sachedina was born and raised in Vancouver in an Ismaili Muslim household. His family immigrated from Uganda, tracing their roots to India. He speaks Kutchi, Gujarati and French. Omar would later visit Uganda on a PBS Frontline/World fellowship to produce a web documentary on the return of Indians after the expulsion of Asians in 1972. He attended McGill University and the Columbia School of Journalism.
His work has appeared in the Vancouver Sun, The Province and CBC Radio. While a student, Sachedina was an intern at Global Television in Vancouver and Montreal, as well as CNN International in London, England. He later worked as a reporter for CTV Northern Ontario. He joined Citytv in July 2006, working on newscasts for both CityNews and CP24, where he remained until 2008. He joined CTV in January 2008 to be a co-host of the new Canada AM Western Edition. When the western edition of Canada AM was canceled, Sachedina was transferred back to the now CTV-owned CP24. As of September 2009, Sachedina is a reporter for CTV National News.
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Pam Seatle
Pam Seatle is a TV newscaster on Citytv in Toronto, Canada, on CityNews at 6 and CityNews Tonight (weekdays). Her aunt is actor Dixie Seatle, who portrayed as Mona in the 1980s series Adderly. On January 19, 2010, Pam Seatle was released by Rogers Media Television. Pam Seatle was brought back to Citytv's CityNews as a reporter a month later. On March 5, Pam Seatle was the new anchor of the weekend edition of CityNews at Six when it was brought back to air.
Seatle has a degree in French from the University of Toronto. As part of schooling, spent her third year at the Université de Provence in the south of France.
Pam is married to Canadian author Dave Eddie, whose book "Housebroken" is a chronicle of the way his life changed after meeting and marrying Pam and having children. They reside with their 3 children in Toronto.[citation needed]
When asked of her height, she replied: "I am a shade under 5'11. Most people cannot tell that and are often surprised when they meet me. It is one of the most oft-heard phrases of my career: 'You are much taller than you look on TV!'"
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Rena Heer
Rena Heer is a Canadian television personality on CP24 as of February 2009. From January 28, 2008 to June 6, 2008, she handled weather along with Jeff Hutcheson on CTV's Canada AM which was a revamped version of the national Canada AM show. On June 6, 2008, CTV announced that it was cancelling the Vancouver portion of its national morning show, "Canada AM". The national show continues to air without Rena Heer and co-host Mi-Jung Lee.
Heer attended Simon Fraser University on a scholarship where she studied for her undergraduate degree in communications. After completing her degree, she was hired by a local software company and spent the next five years in software business development, while contributing part-time to various local South Asian media. Translating her interpersonal skills, promotions and marketing experience as well as her experience with the South Asian community to the television industry, she took the role of community relations manager at Channel M upon the station's launch in late spring of 2003. While also at Channel M, she hosted the station's community segment, Channel M Preview, as well as a cooking show called Fusion Fare.
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Simon Cohen
Simon Cohen is a communication expert, speaker, consultant, trainer and managing director of global tolerance, which describes itself as a positively different communications agency generating positive media coverage for principled organisations of all shapes and sizes.
After the September 11 attacks on the United States, Simon Cohen founded global tolerance to combat what he saw as irresponsible reporting on Muslims. The communication agency describes its mission as the use of PR and communications to harness the power of the media for positive social change. Cohen believes firmly in the power of faith, and has described its potential to help people in a range of situations.
Simon has since conducted media consultancy for the Dalai Lama, the Prince of Wales, Rajmohan Gandhi (grandson of the Mahatma), the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, among others.
Cohen has spoken at symposia such as the Caux Conference, Martin Luther King International Chapel, Council on American Islamic Relations, and John Marshall Law School’s Media Perceptions of Islam. He has spoken on media ethics and on religion in the media at international events including the Economic Forum in Poland and the World Spirit Forum in Arosa.
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Stephen LeDrew
Stephen Ralph LeDrew (born 1953) is currently hosting CP24 Live at Noon, plus he is a Toronto-based lawyer and broadcast commentator. He served as President of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1998 to 2003, and was a Mayor of Toronto candidate in the 2006 municipal election.
As a lawyer, LeDrew served as the Executive Assistant to the Solicitor General of Canada, Government Affairs Counsel for Manulife, and Director of Operations in the Prime Minister's Office. After serving in government, he practiced administrative law in the private sector for over 25 years.
LeDrew was elected president of the Liberal Party of Canada in March 1998, then re-elected in March 2000, serving until November 2003. Occasionally outspoken, he famously derided the Chrétien government's plan to severely limit corporate donations to political parties as being as "dumb as a bag of hammers".
On September 28, 2006, immediately prior to nomination cut-off date, LeDrew announced his candidacy for Mayor of Toronto in that year's municipal election against incumbent David Miller, centre-right challenger Jane Pitfield and a host of fringe candidates. LeDrew's campaign manager was Arthur Potts. Potts is a lobbyist who has worked on behalf of Showline Studios, and opposes the city's deal with a rival company to create a sound studio in the portlands. Although he received considerable media coverage and was invited to participate in election debates with Miller and Pitfield, LeDrew finished a distant third with only 1.3% of the vote.
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Stephen Lewis
Stephen Henry Lewis, CC (born November 11, 1937) is a Canadian politician, broadcaster and diplomat. He was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s. During many of the those years as leader, his father David Lewis was simultaneously the leader of the Federal New Democratic Party. After politics, he became a broadcaster on both CBC Radio and Toronto's CityTV. In the mid-1980s, he was appointed as Canada's United Nations ambassador, by Progressive Conservative Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney. He quit in 1988 and worked at various United Nations agencies during the 1990s. In the 2000s, he served a term as the United Nations' special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. He is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. In 2003, he gained investiture into the Order of Canada.
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Steve Anthony
Steve Anthony (born Stephen Anthony Gomes in Montreal, Quebec, 2 April 1959) is a Canadian television host. He gained attention throughout Canada as a MuchMusic host, or "VJ" from May 1987 to November 1995.
In 1986 Anthony moved from Montreal's CKGM to take the drive shift on Toronto's Q107. He left the following year to join Much Music.
Anthony was a weekday afternoon host on Toronto radio station 99.9 Mix FM, prior to its August 2008 conversion to the Virgin Radio format. He was also a panelist on the 2006 program MuchMusic VJ Search, a competition of prospective hosts for MuchMusic.
In 2009, he hosted a weekend show on Sirius Satellite Radio channel Iceberg 85 and also co-hosts Too Much '80s with Erica Ehm via Astral Media's Orbyt radio syndication service.
Beginning in March 2009, Anthony started working at CP24 (and CP24 Breakfast) as a news reporter on the CP24 news chopper, known as Chopper 24. As of September 2009, Anthony is the co-host of CP24 Breakfast along side with CP24's Melissa Grelo.
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Ted Woloshyn
Ted Woloshyn (born December 1953) is a Toronto broadcaster. He hosted The Ted Woloshyn Show, mornings from 5:30 to 8:30 on CFRB radio 1010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 3 November 1996 until 15 December 2006. He previously worked for Toronto area stations CFNY-FM, Q107 and CKFM-FM. Woloshyn currently lives in Mississauga, Ontario.
Ted started his radio career in 1974 at CHIC in Brampton. He moved on to work in Peterborough, Montreal, Hamilton, and finally, Toronto. Ted began hosting the Newstalk 1010 CFRB morning show in November 1996, following in the footsteps of the legendary Wally Crouter.
Little more than a month after celebrating his tenth anniversary on The Ted Woloshyn Show, he announced his leaving because it was time to move on. CFRB announced on air that Woloshyn was retiring to spend more time with his family. He subsequently revealed that he had actually been fired by CFRB and was certainly not retiring.
As of November 2011[update], Woloshyn writes an opinion column in the Toronto Sun. Woloshyn still host Saturday with Ted Woloshyn on NewsTalk 1010.
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Thalia Assuras
Thalia Assuras (born February 5, 1951) is a Canadian-born television journalist and news anchor. As of May 2011[update], she is anchor of energyNOW!, a half-hour weekly TV news-magazine and opinion program produced by the American Clean Skies Foundation.
Assuras was born in London, Ontario. to parents who immigrated from Tripoli, Greece, after World War II. She attended London Central Secondary School, and remained in London to attend the University of Western Ontario, pursuing a bachelor of science degree. She graduated in 1980, then entered the graduate program in journalism and earned her master's degree in 1981. Twenty-one years later she commented on the impact the journalism program had on her:
Assuras has worked for CITY-TV and Global Television, including a stint as reporter and weekend anchor for CityPulse from 1985 to 1988.
From 1992 to 1993 she worked for CTV, anchoring Canada AM. She then moved to ABC, and in May 1993, joined Aaron Brown as co-anchor of World News Now. She shared that late-night anchor desk with Boyd Matson, fellow Canadian Kevin Newman, and Mark Mullen before leaving the show in January 1997.
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Tonya Rouse
Tonya Rouse (born 1975) is a former TV personality and a Fitness Specialist on Citytv in Toronto. She was also the host for the show Perfect Fit Thursdays @ 5:00 PM EST on CP24. Rouse left CityTV in January 2008.
Personal Life Tonya's father name is Calvin Rouse and she has one sister and one Brother Mark Rouse and one half Brother Shane Kivell, who currently lives in Brantford, Ontario
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Police car lit on fire Toronto G20 riot
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- Duration: 6:36
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
A Police car lit on fire on Queen street west in Toronto during the G20 protests on June 26th 2010
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A Police car lit on fire on Queen street west in Toronto during the G20 protests on June 26th 2010
TORNADO IN TORONTO! Coverage by CP24 (CTV NEWS)
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- Duration: 8:38
- Updated: 24 Jun 2012
This is not ours, but an archived video to make an historic event of something that has not happened in this area in a very long time. A series of F-1 and F-2 tornatoes rip through parts of Toronto. The most affected areas are north of the city in the area of Vaughan, where 120 homes were destroyed. This clip contains coverage by Toronto news channel CP24, with pictures of the damage. DITO Productions News Archives
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This is not ours, but an archived video to make an historic event of something that has not happened in this area in a very long time. A series of F-1 and F-2 tornatoes rip through parts of Toronto. The most affected areas are north of the city in the area of Vaughan, where 120 homes were destroyed. This clip contains coverage by Toronto news channel CP24, with pictures of the damage. DITO Productions News Archives
- published: 21 Aug 2009
- views: 15618
- author: DigitalImagesToront
Woodhands - CP24 (Music Video HD)
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- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
The official music video for Woodhands - CP24 From the album "Remorsecapade" available in early 2010 from Paperbag Records. www.woodhands.com http www.jaredsales.com Shot by Jared Sales Music by Woodhands
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The official music video for Woodhands - CP24 From the album "Remorsecapade" available in early 2010 from Paperbag Records. www.woodhands.com http www.jaredsales.com Shot by Jared Sales Music by Woodhands
- published: 14 Dec 2009
- views: 15366
- author: Jared Sales
CP24 Bhangra
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- Duration: 5:59
- Updated: 21 Aug 2010
Me Raghav Maini and Sathish Bala on CP24 talking about desiFEST!!!!!!!!!!! bhangra preview at 2:15 and onwards :D
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Me Raghav Maini and Sathish Bala on CP24 talking about desiFEST!!!!!!!!!!! bhangra preview at 2:15 and onwards :D
- published: 26 May 2010
- views: 959
- author: Raghav Maini
DEAN BLUNDELL VS. CP24 CAMERAMAN Edge 102.1 FM Toronto SHOW.wmv
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- Duration: 9:24
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Dean goes on the warpath after Todd gets cussed out by a CP24 cameraman!
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Dean goes on the warpath after Todd gets cussed out by a CP24 cameraman!
- published: 30 Oct 2010
- views: 8936
- author: KingofFreestyleMusic
Air France 358 Interview on CP24 Hour Town
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- Duration: 47:47
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Eddie Ho and Viraf Kapadia interviewed by Adam Vaughan (now Toronto city councillor) on CP24 Hour Town re: Air France 358 plane crash on August 3, 2005. The plane crash took place at Pearson Airport ( (YYZ) in Toronto, Ontario at approximately 4:03PM on August 2, 2005. On that day, a Airbus A340-300 overshot the runway upon landing during a thunderstorm and crashed in the Etobicoke ravine. All passengers survived - no fatalities. There were many injuries, some serious, others minor. I was one of the luckier survivor that had relatively minor injuries. Some passengers were unable to walk for months and had to have artificial knee replacements.
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Eddie Ho and Viraf Kapadia interviewed by Adam Vaughan (now Toronto city councillor) on CP24 Hour Town re: Air France 358 plane crash on August 3, 2005. The plane crash took place at Pearson Airport ( (YYZ) in Toronto, Ontario at approximately 4:03PM on August 2, 2005. On that day, a Airbus A340-300 overshot the runway upon landing during a thunderstorm and crashed in the Etobicoke ravine. All passengers survived - no fatalities. There were many injuries, some serious, others minor. I was one of the luckier survivor that had relatively minor injuries. Some passengers were unable to walk for months and had to have artificial knee replacements.
- published: 22 May 2011
- views: 2478
- author: eddiehosa
CP24 Toys for the North LIVE
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- Duration: 12:01
- Updated: 23 Dec 2010
LIVE from CP24, the final flight of TOYS FOR THE NORTH
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LIVE from CP24, the final flight of TOYS FOR THE NORTH
- published: 23 Dec 2010
- views: 2350
- author: thesantaclausparade
"Psychic" on CP24 makes "predictions" for 2011
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- Duration: 2:14
- Updated: 24 Nov 2012
Help stop pseudoscience! Contact CP24 and tell them to keep pseudoscience out of the news: www.cp24.com Does this sort of stuff happen on your local news? Tell me about it, create a video response or leave a comment below.
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Help stop pseudoscience! Contact CP24 and tell them to keep pseudoscience out of the news: www.cp24.com Does this sort of stuff happen on your local news? Tell me about it, create a video response or leave a comment below.
- published: 03 Jan 2011
- views: 5608
- author: Callum C. J. Sutherland
CP24 News Clip - Toronto Maple Leafs - 10 Days of Spirit - Official Launch.
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- Duration: 1:04
- Updated: 07 Feb 2012
TrojanOne's role on the morning of the Toronto Maple Leafs first game included recruitment and training of 20 Brand Ambassadors (dressed as Toronto Maple Leafs players); activation plan / route; and distribution of fan materials to raise excitement for the home opener.
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TrojanOne's role on the morning of the Toronto Maple Leafs first game included recruitment and training of 20 Brand Ambassadors (dressed as Toronto Maple Leafs players); activation plan / route; and distribution of fan materials to raise excitement for the home opener.
- published: 09 Oct 2009
- views: 2088
- author: TrojanOneInc
Munro Chambers and Melinda Shankar at CP24 - 04/18/11
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- Duration: 5:00
- Updated: 30 Aug 2012
Munro and Melinda stop by to talk about Kids Help Phone.
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Munro and Melinda stop by to talk about Kids Help Phone.
- published: 18 Apr 2011
- views: 3996
- author: Degrassifanscom
Yonge Lawrence Village ARTWALK on CP24 Segment 2 of 5
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- Duration: 2:55
- Updated: 21 Oct 2010
CP24 coverage of the Yonge Lawrence Village BIA's 2010 ARTWALK. Segment #2 of 5 "Freehand School of Art" www.yongelawrencevillage-bia.com for more information
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CP24 coverage of the Yonge Lawrence Village BIA's 2010 ARTWALK. Segment #2 of 5 "Freehand School of Art" www.yongelawrencevillage-bia.com for more information
- published: 21 Oct 2010
- views: 251
- author: YLARTWALK
Notesolution on CP24.mov
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- Duration: 5:34
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
Notesolution on CP24!
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cp24 G20
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- Duration: 5:16
- Updated: 05 Dec 2011
stephen ledrew interviews judy rebick
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CP24 - HomePage featuring "WOW"
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- Duration: 5:52
- Updated: 23 Oct 2012
Jee Yun Lee interviewing Robert Young, about WPCI's Wireless Office Wherever product. WOW allows users to set up mobile office that includes phone, fax and internet connections in minutes. www.wpci.com/wow
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Jee Yun Lee interviewing Robert Young, about WPCI's Wireless Office Wherever product. WOW allows users to set up mobile office that includes phone, fax and internet connections in minutes. www.wpci.com/wow
- published: 02 Apr 2009
- views: 5291
- author: yorobert
CARCOSTCANADA ON CP 24 JAN 24, 2011
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- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
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Wix in the News - CP24
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- Duration: 6:04
- Updated: 29 May 2012
A TV Report about Wix.com friendly website builder. Learn the benefits of building a stunning Flash website with Wix. Start building your own website using Wix.com now! www.wix.com?utm_campaign=se_youtube&experiment;_id=yt_en1
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A TV Report about Wix.com friendly website builder. Learn the benefits of building a stunning Flash website with Wix. Start building your own website using Wix.com now! www.wix.com?utm_campaign=se_youtube&experiment;_id=yt_en1
- published: 03 Aug 2008
- views: 12128
- author: wixmypage
Alexz Johnson on CP24
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- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 06 Jun 2012
The CP24 crew in Toronto interviews Alexz Johnson about her debut album "Voodoo" on April 8, 2010.
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The CP24 crew in Toronto interviews Alexz Johnson about her debut album "Voodoo" on April 8, 2010.
- published: 07 May 2010
- views: 7082
- author: inDiscoverRecordings
The Tenors on CP24 for Halloween
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- Duration: 5:39
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
"Lead With Your Heart" is available everywhere music is sold: bit.ly Like The Tenors - bit.ly Follow The Tenors - bit.ly The Tenors Website - www.tenorsmusic.com The Tenors promote their new album Lead With Your Heart while dressed as super heroes. Remi didn't get the email and came as an apple. Oops!
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"Lead With Your Heart" is available everywhere music is sold: bit.ly Like The Tenors - bit.ly Follow The Tenors - bit.ly The Tenors Website - www.tenorsmusic.com The Tenors promote their new album Lead With Your Heart while dressed as super heroes. Remi didn't get the email and came as an apple. Oops!
- published: 31 Oct 2012
- views: 2578
- author: TenorsMusic
CP24 TrafficAlert Tutorial
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- Duration: 2:22
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
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Charice - CP24 Breakfast (Interview)
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- Duration: 7:53
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
www.charicemusic.com follow Charice on twitter http
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- published: 04 Jun 2010
- views: 78489
- author: Jess General
Madonna at WE press conference in Toronto (TIFF security issue)
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- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 24 Oct 2012
Madonna at WE press conference in Toronto (TIFF security issue)
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Madonna at WE press conference in Toronto (TIFF security issue)
- published: 13 Sep 2011
- views: 4436
- author: Gutten1977
CP24 & RAYN
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- Duration: 6:53
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
This is my first official TV spot, im proud to say it was on the Toronto New Station CP24.
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This is my first official TV spot, im proud to say it was on the Toronto New Station CP24.
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 1724
- author: arunrayn
photo: US Navy / HMC Josh Ives
27 Dec 2012
Imperial adventures are nothing new in the Middle East. Neither is their glorification, as Peter O’Toole’s pained Lawrence of Arabia eternally reminds us. But for a decade or so now, things have been heating up, as if to coincide with climate change and fears of declining petroleum reserves ... The Belly for Belligerence? ... The question loomed over beltway intelligentsia like an ephemeral Gordian knot ... We’re All Hawks Now ... While George W ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)
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28 Dec 2012
The president of Central African Republic (CAR) has urgently called on France and other foreign powers to help his government fend off rebels who are quickly seizing territory and approaching the capital. Speaking to crowds in Bangui, a city of some 600,000, Francois Bozize on Thursday pleaded with foreign powers to do what they could. He pointed in particular to France, Central African Republic's former colonial ruler ... 516 Share ... News ... ....(size: 19.5Kb)
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27 Dec 2012
Washington. Six people, including two young children, were left dead in weather-related accidents, as winter snowstorms complicated travel for many Americans in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday. Snow totals in parts of Indiana ranged from 6 to 12 inches, CNN reported. About 350 snowploughs were clearing roads throughout the city. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents they should avoid nonessential travel ... IANS ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
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27 Dec 2012
Large crowds of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) supporters are gathering to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Ms Bhutto died in a gun and bomb attack during her 2007 election campaign. Hundreds of thousands of people have set up camp near the Bhutto family's ancestral home in Sindh province ... He cannot contest an election until his 25th birthday. Show of strength ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
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26 Dec 2012
News of defection comes as activists say 20 people, including eight children, have been killed by shelling in north of country. Assad’s forces are hitting back at a string of rebel advances across the country. Photograph. Abdalghne Karoof/REUTERS. The head of Syria's military police has defected from the army and declared allegiance to the uprising against the president, Bashar al-Assad, according to a video and a Syrian security source....(size: 3.4Kb)
Canada Newswire
21 Dec 2012
- The Civil War in Syria tops CTV's list of key news stories in 2012 -. - 2012 comes to a close with CTV NATIONAL NEWS remaining Canada's undisputed #1 newscast -. To tweet this release. http.//bit.ly/R8G4bQ ... CTV News operations include CTV NEWS CHANNEL, BNN - Business News Network, CP24, and information programming, including CTV NATIONAL NEWS WITH LISA LAFLAMME, CTV NATIONAL NEWS WITH SANDIE RINALDO, CANADA AM, W5, and QUESTION PERIOD....(size: 3.5Kb)
noodls
21 Dec 2012
(Source. CTV Inc). December 21, 2012. CTV News Announces Its Top 10 News Stories of 2012. - The Civil War in Syria tops CTV's list of key news stories in 2012 ¬- ... To tweet this release ... 1. Syria ... 1). 2 ... 3 ... CTV News operations include CTV NEWS CHANNEL, BNN - Business News Network, CP24, and information programming, including CTV NATIONAL NEWS WITH LISA LAFLAMME, CTV NATIONAL NEWS WITH SANDIE RINALDO, CANADA AM, W5, and QUESTION PERIOD....(size: 4.7Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
20 Dec 2012
Canadian therapist helps readers beat the holiday blues. Pensacola, FL (PRWEB) December 20, 2012 Whether someone is dealing with a case of the “holiday blues” or suffering from a more chronic and debilitating form of depression, Nicole McCance wants to help ... She has been a frequent contributor to media outlets such as CP24, CTV News, CTV National, Global TV, CBC News, Rogers, CBC Radio, the Toronto Star, and Canadian Living ... ....(size: 2.8Kb)
The Oklahoman
14 Dec 2012
. No Author. email. To provide you with the most current information, this page will refresh every 30 seconds. @FranklinMissy. It's hard to understand why these things happen. Praying for everyone in Newtown. You will all be in my thoughts. @ILuvLittrellfam 1.54 p.m. RT @backstreetboys. Sending love & prayers to everyone in Newtown, Connecticut. #PrayForNewtown ... ♥ ... RT @CP24 ... cp24.com/world/reaction… ... RT @CP24 ... cp24.com/world/reaction…....(size: 106.7Kb)
Fox31 Denver
12 Dec 2012
(CNN/CTV) — The human ‘mother’ of the dapper monkey that’s been grabbing international headlines since he was found wandering an Ikea parking lot says he should be able to decide where he lives ... “It’s about whether he needs me. I believe he does. No matter what anybody else is saying,” Nakhuda told CP24. “If I walk into that room, let him choose ... . . ....(size: 3.5Kb)
noodls
11 Dec 2012
(Source. City of Vaughan) ... The 36-foot tall Norway spruce was delivered by Drysdale Tree Farms, an environmentally-friendly Christmas tree plantation ... To assist families of many faiths and cultures during the holiday season, residents and visitors were encouraged to donate new, unwrapped toys for newborns to children 18 years of age as part of the third annual City of Vaughan Toy Drive in support of the CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish ... (noodl....(size: 2.8Kb)
The Guardian
10 Dec 2012
A press conference in Toronto revealed new details about the Canadian monkey with a taste for Swedish minimalism. Darwin may be the most fashionable monkey in Canada. Photograph. Instagram. The story of the Ikea monkey – a tiny, confused and seemingly lost pet monkey running round the entrance lobby at the Swedish furniture store in Toronto has taken the Internet by storm ... Name ... #Ikeamonkey #Darwin— CP24 (@CP24) December 10, 2012 ... ....(size: 5.0Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
09 Dec 2012
All Natural Skincare Products from Y.E.S. Skincare launches sweepstakes with Sweepstakes Ninja. Entrants may win a Y.E.S. Skincare Perfecting Moisturizer package, or Y.E.S. CP24-Complex(r) skin serum. Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) December 08, 2012. Y.E.S ... Consumers may win a a Y.E.S. Skin Perfecting Moisturizer package, or Y.E.S. CP24-Complex(r) skin serum, by entering the Sweepstakes Ninja sweepstakes draw here ... Y.E.S ... Skincare....(size: 2.7Kb)
Canada Newswire
04 Dec 2012
- Women's Executive Network (WXN) reveals 2012 Winners at 10th anniversary of Top 100 Awards -. To tweet this release. http.//bit.ly/TE41rT. TORONTO, Dec ... Top 100 Award in the Arts & Communications category ... Since being named President of CTV News in December 2010, Freeman has been responsible for news, information, and current affairs programming, including CTV NATIONAL NEWS, CTV News Channel, BNN, CP24, and CTVNews.ca ... (TSX, NYSE ... ....(size: 6.5Kb)
noodls
28 Nov 2012
Alternatives, Air Cadets 283 Woodbridge Legion Squadron, Beth Chabad Israeli Community Centre, Caritas, Carson Foundation, Children's Aid Foundation of York Region, CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish, Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women, ETA Vaughan, Friendship Circle, Fuerza Latina Community Services, Hospice Vaughan, Human Endeavour, Joe Dwek Ohr HaEmet ......(size: 4.1Kb)
The Examiner
28 Nov 2012
Yes, Virginia, there is a Grinch. His name is David Rennie, and although he didn’t succeed in stealing Christmas, it was not for want of trying. As noted in this video report from Toronto news station CP24, Rennie, who was apprehended last weekend, faces 40 criminal charges in connection with a massive toy theft from a Salvation Army warehouse ... The toys and other donated goods worth about $2 million were stolen over a two-year period ... 4....(size: 3.5Kb)
noodls
26 Nov 2012
Mayor Rob Ford and City Manager Joe Pennachetti along with a number of children acting as "honorary elves" kicked off the 2012 Mayor's Toy Drive today ... "This is a great start to the toy drive," said Mayor Ford ... W ... W. The toys, gifts and gift cards collected will be distributed through established toy drive programs run by Global Toronto/Toronto Fire Fighters' Toy Drive and the CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish ... (noodl....(size: 5.5Kb)
noodls
23 Nov 2012
Date. Monday, November 26. Time. 1 p.m. Place. Rotunda, City Hall, 100 Queen St. W. Toys, gifts and gift cards collected at City sites will be distributed through established toy drive programs operated by the Global Toronto/Toronto Fire Fighters' Toy Drive and the CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish ... (noodl....(size: 4.1Kb)
| CablePulse 24 | |
|---|---|
| 175px | |
| CP24 logo | |
| Launched | March 30, 1998 |
| Owned by | Bell Media |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Slogan | Toronto's Breaking News |
| Country | Canada |
| Broadcast area | Southern Ontario (analogue) National (satellite) |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Sister channel(s) | CHUM-FM, CFXJ-FM, CHUM (AM), CKVR-DT, CFTO-DT |
| Website | CP24 |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Bell TV | Channel 503 |
| Shaw Direct | Channel 509 |
| Cable | |
| Available on many Southern Ontario cable systems | Check local listings, channels may vary |
| IPTV | |
| Bell Fibe TV | Channel 503 |
| MTS | Channel 143 |
CablePulse24 (CP24) is a Canadian English language Category A specialty news channel owned and operated by Bell Media. Based in Toronto, it focuses on local news from the Greater Toronto Area and Southern Ontario, although it also covers national and international news. It is distributed through cable in Southern Ontario and direct broadcast satellite nationally.
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History[link]
File:CablePulse24.png
Old version of the CP24 logo.
The channel was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1996 as Pulse 24,[1] and launched on March 30, 1998 as CablePulse 24 (CP24) on March 30, 1998, under the ownership of CHUM Limited and minority partner Sun Media, owner of the Toronto Sun daily newspaper. The network was named as an extension of CITY-TV's newscasts, which were then known as CityPulse.
On December 1, 2004 CHUM Limited acquired the remaining interest in CP24 (giving it 100% of its shares), when the Sun's owners sold their 29.9% share in CP24 after acquiring its independent broadcast station Toronto 1 (now Sun News Network), the same day when CHUM Limited took control of Craig Media and its assets.
Acquisition by CTV[link]
See also: 2007 Canada broadcast TV realignment
On July 12, 2006, CTVglobemedia announced a friendly bid to take over CHUM Limited for an estimated $1.7 billion. One year later on June 8, 2007, the CRTC approved the CTV takeover of CHUM. However, the CRTC made the deal conditional on CTVgm selling the Citytv stations. On June 12, 2007, Rogers announced that it had agreed to buy the Citytv stations (including Citytv Toronto) for $375 million. The deal was finalized later that year, with a stipulation that CTV maintain ownership of CHUM's 299 Queen Street West headquarters and studios. CTV ultimately chose to keep CP24 along with the rest of CHUM assets (including the A-Channel stations) it had previously said it would sell.
As a result of the ownership changes, CP24 began to separate its operations from those of CITY-TV. This process began in November 2008, when CP24 established a new studio and newsroom on the second floor of the 299 Queen Street West building,[2] followed by the removal of all CITY-TV programming from its schedule on December 10, 2008 (excluding Breakfast Television), and replacing the 6 PM CityNews simulcast with CFTO-TV's CTV News at Six. Critics had speculated that the latter change was likely as a response to the announcement of the CRTC granting approval to an application by Rogers Media for its own regional news channel focusing on the Greater Toronto Area, CityNews Channel.[3][4][5][6]
On March 26, 2009, Breakfast Television was finally replaced with a new morning show, CP24 Breakfast, marking the final separation of the CP24 newsroom from that of Citytv, which moved to 33 Dundas Street East on September 8, 2009. To coincide with the launch, CTV also re-launched its oldies music radio station 1050 CHUM (another station acquired in the CTV/CHUM merger) as an audio simulcast of CP24, becoming known on-air as CP24 Radio 1050. The move was intended to bring CP24's programming to a new platform and broaden the network's reach as a multi-platform news source. The move did not prove successful, however. Toronto Sun columnist Ted Woloshyn in particular criticized the simulcast for being a poor substitute for an actual all-news radio format, and pointed out several instances demonstrating that no special consideration was taken for CP24's content, which was clearly being produced for television and not radio.[7] This arrangement ended on April 13, 2011, in favour of the launch of a new TSN-branded sports talk radio format, becoming known on-air as TSN Radio 1050, weeks after Bell Canada took control of CTVglobemedia's assets including CP24, with the latter company becoming known as Bell Media.[8][9]
Following the massive layoffs and cost-cutting measures that took place at the Citytv stations across Canada (including the cancellation of Citytv Toronto's CityNews at Five announced on January 19, 2010), CP24 immediately expanded its Live at 5 broadcast from 15 minutes to a full half hour, and added another half-hour newscast following it at 5:30 PM.[10][11] As a result, CP24's late-afternoon talk shows, such as Animal House Calls and Hot Property, which were previously seen weekdays at 5:15 p.m. were moved to a new time slot for 7:15 p.m. effective January 26, 2010.[12]
On March 19, 2011, CP24 introduced a weekend edition of CP24 Breakfast, hosted by Pooja Handa and Gurdeep Ahluwalia, George Lagogianes will be the remote host and Nneka Elliott (who resigned on May 2, 2011, and was replaced by Jamie Gutfreund) will deliver the weather forecasts. The show will run from 7:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.[13]
Location and format[link]
CP24 is based at 299 Queen Street West, at the corner of John Street and Queen Street West, previously sharing the newsroom with CITY-TV on the ground floor. In November 2008, CP24 moved its operations to a new studio and newsroom on the second floor of the complex. Coinciding with the new studio, CP24 also adopted an updated on-air appearance, replacing the previous CityNews blue and gold colour scheme with a red, white, and black design.[2][14]
CP24's screen format utilizes a window in the top-left of the screen to show the current program, which is surrounded with a sidebar with weather and traffic reports, along with scrolling news headlines and local entertainment/event information, and tickers for stocks and sports. This format has been described as more closely resembling a website than a conventional television channel, and has been replicated to include a similar look of CP24's enriched screen on its relaunched website.
Other affiliations[link]
CP24 also shares news resources with other Bell Media-owned outlets, including sports updates with TSN (and TSN Radio 1050), business news updates with BNN, MTV News with MTV Canada and entertainment news updates with eTalk; in addition CP24 also sometimes shares news reporters with CTV and CTV Two. Before its acquisition by CTV, CP24 was integrated with CITY-TV's newsroom, and shared some programming.
Carriage and expansion plans[link]
CP24 is seen on cable channel 24 on most cable systems that carry the channel. It is not carried on any analogue cable system outside of Central or Southern Ontario, although it is available on direct broadcast satellite and IPTV television providers in some markets. The channel is available across Canada on Bell TV, on which the station is part of the service's "News" package. It is also available in the "FYI" package provided to Shaw Direct customers.
Programs[link]
+ denotes simulcast of local news programming from sister station CFTO-TV
Newscasts[link]
- 24 Dayside - Daytime newsflow hosted by various CP24 anchors
- 24 Nightside - Evening newsflow hosted by various CP24 anchors
- Before Breakfast - airs weekdays at 5 a.m.
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- Lindsey Deluce - host/news anchor
- CP24 Breakfast - airs weekdays at 6 a.m.
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- Lindsey Deluce - news anchor
- Steve Anthony - co-host
- Melissa Grelo - co-host
- Nalini Sharma - remote host/weather specialist (on maternity leave as of January 2012)
- Bill Coulter - meteorologist
- Mika Midolo - traffic/transit specialist
- Bob Summers - traffic specialist
- Cam Woolley - traffic/safety specialist and lead reporter
- CP24 Breakfast Weekend Edition - airs weekends at 7 a.m.
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- Gurdeep Ahulwalia - news anchor/co-host
- Pooja Handa - news anchor/co-host/traffic reporter
- Katie Simpson - reporter
- Jamie Gutfreund - weather specialist
- CP24 Early News Edition - first half-hour of CP24 Breakfast, airs weekdays at 5:30 a.m.
- CP24 Live at Noon - hosted by Ann Rohmer and Stephen LeDrew on weekdays; airs weekdays at noon, this title is also used during the noon-hour newsflow on the weekends
- + CTV News at 6 - 6 p.m. newscast, anchored by Christine Bentley and Ken Shaw
- + CTV News at 6 Weekend - weekend 6 p.m. newscast, anchored by Andria Case and Colin D'Mello
- + CTV News at 11:30 - 11:30 p.m. newscast, anchored by Bill Hutchison
- + CTV News at 11:30 Weekend - weekend 11:30 p.m. newscast, anchored by Andria Case
- Live at 5 - 5 p.m. newscast, originally running 15 minutes since its launch on January 14, 2008. Expanded to 30 minutes on January 19, 2010, after Rogers Media, the owners of Citytv announced cost-cutting measures at the Citytv stations across Canada including the cancellation of their 5 p.m. newscast for Toronto; hosted by Nathan Downer
- Live at 5:30 - hosted by Nathan Downer; this program was added to the CP24 schedule on January 19, 2010, in response to the budget cuts at the Citytv stations across Canada which included the cancellation of their 5 p.m. newscast for Toronto; airs weekdays at 5:30 p.m.
Specialty programming[link]
- Animal Housecalls - hosted by Ann Rohmer, a phone-in show with guests about animals; airs on CP24 and Animal Planet Tuesdays at 7:10 p.m.
- AutoShop - a phone-in show about automobiles, hosted by Devon Soltendieck; airs at 8 p.m. Sundays.
- App Central - airs weekends on BNN and on CP24[15]
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- Michael Hainsworth - co-host
- Amber MacArthur - co-host
- Kris Abel - reporter
- Daniel Bader - contributor
- Maurice Cacho - contributor
- Simon Cohen - contributor
- Ian Hardy - contributor
- Winston Sih - contributor
- Doug Stephens - contributor
- Andy Walker - contributor[16]
- Hot Property - real estate program, hosted by Ann Rohmer; airs Thursdays at 7:15 p.m.
- On the Quarter - hosted by Ann Rohmer and TD Waterhouse money expert Patricia Lovett Reid; airs every three months
- Wylde on Health - hosted by homeopath Bryce Wylde; airs Fridays at 7:10 p.m.
Special events[link]
- Toronto Santa Claus Parade - Annual parade held in mid-November to celebrate the start of the holiday season; aired since 2010.
Remote camera use[link]
In addition to the Freeway Management System - COMPASS and RESCU cameras, CP24 operates EYES cameras located at:
- CN Tower
- Yorkdale
- Toronto Pearson International Airport
- Dome
- East
- Don Valley Parkway
- Polson Street
- 299 Queen Street West
Chopper 24[link]
Since 2008, CP24 has leased a (Bell 206L-4 Long Ranger (C-FCTV) news helicopter which can broadcast live at 1500 feet above land; nicknamed Chopper 24, which is supplied by its sister station, CTV Toronto and is currently painted with CTV's colouring and logo.
Beat The Traffic[link]
In 2009, CP24 became the first and only station in Canada to introduce a new Beat The Traffic system showing a three-dimensional animated map displaying traffic flow, roadwork, accidents and current highway travel times.[17]
CP24 HD[link]
The CRTC approved an application by CHUM Limited (the station's former owner) in June 2007 to launch an High-Definition simulcast of CP24. As of May 2012, the channel is not broadcasting in HD, however an HD feed is scheduled to launch later in 2012.
On-air staff[link]
[edit] Current on-air staff[18]
Anchors
- Gurdeep Ahluwalia - anchor/host; CP24 Breakfast (weekend mornings), also reporter
- Steve Anthony - anchor/host; CP24 Breakfast (weekday mornings)
- Kyle Christie - also reporter
- Lindsey Deluce - anchor/host; Before Breakfast/CP24 Breakfast (weekday mornings)
- Nathan Downer - Live at 5/Live at 5:30 (weeknights); also reporter and substitute anchor
- Melissa Grelo - anchor/host; CP24 Breakfast (weekday mornings)
- Pooja Handa - CP24 Breakfast (weekend mornings); also reporter and traffic specialist
- Rena Heer - also reporter
- George Lagogianes - substitute anchor; also reporter
- Stephen LeDrew - Live at Noon (weekdays)
- Jee Yun Lee - also reporter
- Farah Nasser - also reporter
- Ann Rohmer - Live at Noon (weekdays) and Live at 5/Live at 5:30 (weeknights)
- Sue Sgambati - substitute anchor; also general assignment and crime reporter
- Devon Soltendieck - also reporter
- Karman Wong - also reporter
Local program hosts
- Stephen LeDrew - host of LeDrew Live
- Amber MacArthur - host of App Central
- Ann Rohmer - host of Animal House Calls, Hot Property and On the Quarter
- Sue Sgambati - host of The Chief and The Commish
- Devon Soltendieck - host of Autoshop
- Cam Woolley - host of Know Your Rights
- Bryce Wylde - host of Wylde on Health
Weather team
- Bill Coulter (CMOS-endorsed weathercaster) - meteorologist; weekday mornings CP24 Breakfast
- Jamie Gutfreund - weather specialist; weekend mornings CP24 Breakfast
- Patricia Jaggernauth - freelance reporter
- Mika Midolo - weather specialist
- Chris Potter - meteorologist
- Nalini Sharma - weather specialist; weekday mornings CP24 Breakfast, also remote host and general assignment reporter (currently on maternity leave)
Traffic
- Jamie Gutfruend - traffic specialist
- Pooja Handa - substitute traffic anchor
- Mika Midolo - traffic/transit specialist
- Amber Payie - traffic/safety specialist and lead reporter
- Bob Summers - traffic specialist
Reporters
- Sandie Benitah - CP24.com reporter (on-air)
- Andrea Hartling - senior assignment rditor
- Chris Kitching - CP24.com reporter (on-air)
- Katie Simpson - general assignment reporter
- Stephanie Smyth - senior breaking news reporter
- Cam Woolley - general assignment, traffic and safety reporter
- Bryce Wylde - alternative health expert
Notable former presenters[link]
Presenters also include those working of both CITY-TV's CityNews Toronto and CP24 prior to the CTV/CHUM acquisition in 2007.
- Thalia Assuras (later moved to ABC and then CBS)
- Matte Babel - CP24 Breakfast remote host
- Hal Banfield - CP24 reporter
- Hugh Burrill - CityNews/CP24 sports anchor and AutoShop (now with CITY-TV's CityNews Toronto)
- Bill Cameron (later with the CBC)
- Lance Chilton - reporter
- Francis D'Souza - CityNews/CP24 anchor/reporter (now 6 p.m. anchor for CityNews Toronto)
- Mark Dailey - CityNews/CP24 anchor/reporter and host of CityNews Tonight (died on December 6, 2010, after a long battle with prostate cancer)[19]
- Denise Donlon (later CEO of Sony Canada)
- Dwight Drummond - CityNews/CP24 crime reporter - former host of The Chief (now he will join CBC News Toronto on Oct 12/10
- Nneka Elliott - CP24 anchor/weather specialist
- Merella Fernandez - CityNews/CP24 anchor/reporter and host of AutoShop
- Mary Garofalo (later at WNYW-TV in New York; now host of Global's 16x9: The Bigger Picture)
- Larysa Harapyn - CityNews/CP24 entertainment reporter
- Lorne Honickman - CP24 legal specialist
- Bob Hunter (founder of Greenpeace; later died of cancer)
- Avi Lewis (later with CBC; now with Al Jazeera English)
- Stephen Lewis - provided a commentary program (later appointed as Canadian ambassador to the United Nations)
- Cynthia Loyst - host of Sex Matters
- Gord Martineau - CityNews/CP24 anchor/reporter, CityNews at Six anchor for CP24, and anchor of CityNews International (now with CITY-TV's CityNews Toronto)
- Jim McKenny - CityNews/CP24 sports anchor (now retired)
- Tracy Moore - reporter (now host of Citytv's CityLine)
- Anne Mroczkowski - CityNews/CP24 anchor/reporter - CityNews at Six anchor and host of The Mayor (now at Global Toronto)
- Cynthia Mulligan - CityNews/CP24 anchor/reporter (now with CityNews
- David Onley - CP24 anchor and host of ''Homepage (appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario in 2007)
- Dini Petty - CityPulse/CP24 anchor (later host of Citytv's CityLine and then CTV's The Dini Petty Show; now retired)
- Alex Pierson - CityNews/CP24 reporter (later with Global News in Toronto; now with Sun News Network)
- Beatrice Politi - CP24 political specialist (now with Global Ontario)
- Kris Reyes - CityNews/CP24 reporter and former host of City Online (now with Global Toronto's The Morning Show)
- John Roberts (credited as J.D. Roberts) - entertainment reporter and weekend anchor (later with CNN's American Morning; now Atlanta-based national correspondent for Fox News Channel)
- Tonya Rouse - fitness specialist and host of CP24's Perfect Fit
- John Saunders - sportscaster (now at ESPN)
- Omar Sachedina - CP24 anchor/reporter (now a correspondent for CTV News)
- Pam Seatle - CityNews/CP24 anchor/reporter (now general assignment reporter with CITY-TV's CityNews Toronto)
References[link]
- ^ CRTC Decision 96-609
- ^ a b CP24.com Exciting times as CP24 launches cutting-edge newsroom
- ^ CP24 broadcasts Toronto's Number One Local 6pm Newscast
- ^ CRTC Broadcasting Notice 2008-9
- ^ http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2008/db2008-347.htm
- ^ What Happened To CityNews On That Cable Channel?
- ^ Ted Woloshyn, "CP24 Radio is a disaster". Toronto Sun, March 28, 2009.
- ^ "Ground shifting as broadcasters brace for sports war". Toronto Star, January 21, 2011.
- ^ "TSN Radio a reality". The Globe and Mail, January 21, 2011.
- ^ CP24 Now Offers Toronto Viewers More Early News With LIVE AT 5 and LIVE AT 5:30 CTVglobemedia press release, January 19, 2010,
- ^ CP24 now offering more news at 5 p.m. CP24.com, published January 19, 2010
- ^ TalkTV shows move to better time-slot CP24.com, puiblished January 26, 2010,
- ^ CP24 BREAKFAST Served Fresh Seven Days A Week CTV press release, March 14, 2011
- ^ CP24 November 18 press release for new on-air look and new cutting-edge newsroom
- ^ BNN and CP24 Launch a Brand New Program APP CENTRAL CTV press release, March 23, 2011.
- ^ "App Central - About the Show". http://appcentral.sync-blog.com/about. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ CP24's Beat The Traffic system online
- ^ CP24 Reporter Bios, CP24.com. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ A Legend Lost: Toronto Mourns The Death Of Mark Dailey
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| Munro Chambers | |
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 Chambers at the 2011 MuchMusic Video Awards |
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| Born | (1990-07-29) July 29, 1990 (age 21)[1][2] |
| Occupation | Actor |
Munro Chambers is a Canadian actor, best known for his role as Wilder on The Latest Buzz[2] and his new role as Elijah "Eli" Goldsworthy on Degrassi. His identical twin brother named Thomas Chambers is also an actor.
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Beethoven's Christmas Adventure[3] | Mason | Movie |
| 2010–present | Degrassi | Eli Goldsworthy | TV series |
| 2007–2010 | The Latest Buzz | Wilder | TV series |
| 2005 | Bailey's Billion$ | Max Rizzo | Movie |
| Murder in the Hamptons | Greg Ammon | TV Movie | |
| Good Fences | Billy | TV Movie | |
| 2004 | Godsend | Max Shaw | Movie |
| 2003 | A Wrinkle in Time | Sandy Murray | TV movie |
| 2001 | Little Men | Rob | TV series |
References[link]
- ^ Munro Chambers (July 29, 2011). "Tweet 97023475629305856". Twitter. https://twitter.com/#!/The_Munro/status/97023475629305856. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ a b Tim Edwards (November 6, 2009). "The buzz about bullying". Northern News Services. http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/nov6_09fa.html. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "Beethoven's Christmas Adventure Cast". http://www.universalstudiosentertainment.com/beethovens-christmas-adventure/#tab-2. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
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| Name | Chambers, Munro |
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| Short description | |
| Date of birth | July 29, 1990 |
| Place of birth | Newmarket, Ontario, Canada |
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| Melinda Shankar | |
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 Shankar in November 2010 |
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| Born | (1992-02-18) February 18, 1992 (age 20)[1][2] Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2008–present |
Melinda Shankar (born February 18, 1992)[1][2] is a Canadian actress who is best known for playing Alli Bhandari beginning in season 8 of Degrassi: The Next Generation[3][4] and Indira 'Indie' Mehta on How To Be Indie.
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Career[link]
She started her acting career at age 10 appearing in TV commercials, print ads and some theatre work.[2][5]
Shankar currently plays Alli Bhandari in the 11th season of Degrassi: Now or Never. She also stars in a television series on YTV called How To Be Indie. She plays the role of Indira. She co-starred in Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars, as a Disney Channel Original Movie alongside Jennifer Stone as Janie Gibbs, Harriet's best friend. She was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada.[6] Shankar currently resides in Toronto, Canada.[6] She has three siblings: Melissa, Melanie, and Michael Shankar.[6]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008–present | Degrassi: The Next Generation | Alliah "Alli" Bhandari | Main role |
| 2009–2012 | How To Be Indie | Indie Mehta | Main role |
| 2010 | Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars | Janie Gibbs | TV movie |
| 2010 | Festival of Lights | Reshma | Main role |
References[link]
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| Date of birth | February 18, 1992 |
| Place of birth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Birth name | Alexzandra Spencer Johnson |
| Born | (1986-11-04) November 4, 1986 (age 25)[citation needed] New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada |
| Genres | Pop, world, folk-pop, alternative rock |
| Occupations | Vocalist, songwriter, musician, actress |
| Instruments | Vocals guitar |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | Epic, Capitol, inDiscover Recordings, Orange Lounge Recording Co. |
| Website | Official website |
Alexzandra Spencer "Alexz" Johnson (born November 4, 1986) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, actress and philanthropist. Her debut album Voodoo was independently released in 2010, followed by the demo release The Basement Recordings in 2011, with its sequel The Basement Recordings II and EP, Skipping Stone out in 2012, retrospectively.
She is best known for her roles as Jude Harrison in the CTV series Instant Star, as Annie Thelan in the Disney Channel series So Weird, and as Erin Ulmer in the 2006 horror film Final Destination 3. She was nominated three times for a Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series (Instant Star), winning the award in 2008.
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Johnson was born in New Westminster, British Columbia and raised in nearby Coquitlam,[1] the sixth of ten children. One of her sisters is a stage actress, and her brother Brendan is a musician with whom she often collaborates.
From age three, Johnson would frequently sing for her large extended family. By age seven, she was receiving vocal training, participating in festivals with her local youth choir, and giving solo performances at school and community functions. She entered many talent contests and festivals, winning a National Anthem Contest at the age of 11, with her rendition of the National Anthem being heard on national television. This resulted in numerous radio and television interviews, as well as interest from management. That year, she was also voted Best Anthem singer of the season by the Vancouver Sun.
Locally, Johnson was often referred to as the "West Coast Celine" and sang the Canadian National Anthem at games for the NHL's Vancouver Canucks and the NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies (now based in Memphis). She also performed at charity events and fairs around the province, in addition to the B.C. Summer Games. She opened the Variety Club show singing a duet with Bob McGrath, sang the first set of songs at the Molson Indy (a major car race), and entertained on New Year's Eve at Planet Hollywood at the age of 12.[citation needed]
Career[link]
[edit] 2000–03: Career beginnings and So Weird
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Although she was only focused on singing at the time, Johnson decided to pursue a career in acting at the age of 11, where she "walked into an acting agency and told them [she] wanted to sing."[2] She landed auditions for commercials and a showcase for a pilot called "Most Talented Kids". She auditioned for the Disney television series So Weird which, for the final season of the show, was looking for a lead actress who could also sing.
Johnson was offered the job immediately after her audition. She also showed an interest in songwriting, and co-wrote one of the songs for So Weird. After the show ended, she continued her interest in songwriting, co-writing with her brother. In 2002, after a few acting gigs under her belt, Johnson focused on her music career. Several labels offered her contracts, but she held off, wanting more creative control and a hand in the songwriting.
In 2001, Johnson teamed up with the production/songwriting team of Johnny Elkins and CJ Vanston and had a more bubblegum pop sound. With her work with Vanston and Elkins ending around 2003, Johnson ended up working with her brother on demos. These were the types of songs included on the demo CD she sent to the executives of Instant Star with her audition tape.
Johnson has continued with several acting projects, including the role of Angel in the Lifetime original movie Selling Innocence and guest roles in shows such as The Chris Isaak Show, Cold Squad, and The Collector.
[edit] 2004–07: Instant Star and acting roles
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In 2004, Johnson sent in an audition tape to the producers of Degrassi: The Next Generation for their upcoming show Instant Star. They were specifically looking for a Canadian teen actress/vocalist to play the lead role, Jude Harrison. The first audition tape Executive Producer Stephen Stohn received was Johnson's, and he was convinced she was exactly the one who would be perfect for the role.[citation needed]
After its first season, Instant Star was nominated for three Gemini Awards (the Canadian equivalent of the American Emmy Award) in the category of Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series, including a nomination for Best Performance (Alexz Johnson). On August 28, 2007, the show received three more Gemini Award nominations, in the category of Best Children's or Youth Program or Series, including another for Best Performance (Alexz Johnson, in the episode, "I Fought the Law").
Johnson sang all of the songs that her character Jude, on Instant Star performed on the show. She recorded soundtracks for each of the four seasons of Instant Star: Songs from Instant Star, Songs from Instant Star Two, Songs from Instant Star Three, and Songs From Instant Star Four. She wrote/co-wrote five of the songs on the first season's soundtrack, including "24 Hours", "Let Me Fall", "Criminal, "Skin", and "That Girl", which Johnson had written before when she was fourteen.
Most of the original recordings for the originally planned debut album were written by Johnson in early 2005, but she had yet to find a major label to help create and release the songs. In early 2006, Johnson had announced she was to leave the indie Canadian label Orange Records, that had released the first two soundtracks to Instant Star, in search of something to showcase her as an artist and not her fictional counterpart, Jude Harrison.
Johnson auditioned for the role of Julie Christenson in the thriller Final Destination 3. She showed up at the audition in an all black, punk rockish outfit, later claiming that she had also been in a bad mood. The casting directors concluded she was a better fit for the role of Erin Ulmer, a character with a bad attitude. Her performance attracted praise from some critics, even from one (writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer) who said: "The characters are so loathsome, you're glad to see them go. Except for two: the goth couple Ian (Kris Lemche) and Erin (Alexz Johnson). He's a cynical know-it-all, like Dennis Miller with black fingernails; she's like Parker Posey with raccoon mascara.."[3] In 2007, Johnson starred in the Lifetime movie, Devil's Diary, for which she received a Leo Award nomination, in the category of Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Feature-Length Drama.
2008–09: Struggles with starting her music career[link]
On August 26, 2008, Johnson was nominated a third time for a Gemini award. On October 21, 2008, she won the Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series, for the Instant Star episode "Let It Be." Johnson continued with Instant Star for four seasons, and expected to return for a fifth. This was interrupted when CTV and The N both pulled funding following the fourth season, which led to the cancellation of the series. This allowed Johnson to go back to focusing on her music.
After a showcase in New York City, Johnson met with several labels and producers and chose Capitol Records, which allowed her to work with Paul Buckmaster, though her brother was the main producer of the material at the time. In writing songs for the album, she worked with UK writers Martin Terefe and Sacha Skarbek as well as producer/songwriter Brio Taliaferro.[citation needed] On June 25, 2007, Johnson appeared on MTV Canada.[vague] She confirmed that all of her songs had been written and recorded. She planned on shopping for a label over the next few months and hoped to release the album in the winter.
On February 15, 2008, she announced in her MySpace blog[4] that she had signed a record deal with label Epic Records (part of the Sony BMG group), expecting the album to be released in the fall. Having heard the first six songs, Stephen Stohn, in his MySpace blog of Feb. 16, 2008, commented that, "they are just incredibly good - very different from the songs you've come to know through Instant Star, much more rhythmic, with almost a world beat."[5]
In an interview in 2008,[6] she described her upcoming album as "pop with eclectic world rhythms and influences", citing influences from "older artists" such as Paul Simon, Kate Bush, and Annie Lennox, and saying that she was "trying to find a way to make those great older songs younger."
The producer for the album became Greg Wells after Johnson was introduced to him through his brother Rob Wells, one of the songwriters for Instant Star. The new arrangement with Epic Records also affected the line-up of artists for the Instant Star 4 soundtrack, as the record label allowed her a maximum of four songs on Instant Star 4. In her MySpace blog of February 15, 2008, Johnson indicated that she was planning an extensive tour around her new album, saying of her songs that, "I can't wait to perform them live! Looking forward to seeing all of your faces!" Johnson also began working with multi instrumentalist Luis Conte and legendary strings expert Paul Buckmaster. Five songs were posted on her MySpace page by her record company on June 11, 2008. These songs were supposed to appear in her upcoming album and were entitled: "Easy", "Swallowed", "Chicago", "Golden", and "Running With the Devil".[4]
Johnson appeared in the hit CW series Smallville episode "Legion", as the super heroine Saturn Girl. The episode aired on January 15, 2009. She was the second actress from Instant Star to appear in the show, the first one being Laura Vandervoort. She also appeared in the TV-movie version of the Lois Duncan novel Stranger with My Face, in which she plays twin sisters who were separated at birth. She stated that the filming—which included a dramatic scene in which her two characters conflict through astral projection, leading to a fall off a cliff and into a waterfall—was so mentally and physically demanding, that she felt like she could never take on another role like it again. It premiered on Lifetime Movie network on August 29, 2009. The director of Stranger with My Face, Jeff Renfroe, greatly praised what he saw when working with Johnson and her costar Andrew Francis. "They're both young actors who came from the school of working from the gut and not trying to intellectualize everything."[citation needed]
In a February 2009 interview with the Times-Colonist, a newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, Johnson said that her album was completely finished, noting that she was simply waiting for changes to be finalized with the new head of her label, Amanda Ghost, who had worked with Johnson on the album. She hoped to have the album out by September 2009, followed by tours through parts of Europe and North America.[citation needed]
Before the album's release date, Epic Records removed Johnson from their Artist Lists. Johnson later gave clarification on her website that launched August 11, 2009,[7] saying "Epic has released over a third of their artists from their contracts and, la dee da... I'm one of those artists..." She also later clarified in an interview that the "head of the label who signed [her] ended up shifting to a different company. It led a lot of artists on Epic astray."[2] She confirmed that due to losing her deal with Epic, she would be releasing a different album independently with her brother Brendan producing. She said she hopes that her unreleased debut album with Epic would see the light one day, noting that for now, the songs are still tied up in the arrangement with Epic.
[edit] 2009–11: Voodoo, Reloaded, and Internet promotion
The independent release will be by the company which also runs her website - Laydee Spencer Music, Inc. On August 27, 2009, Johnson released a list of songs that are going to be on her album in alphabetical order,[8] and later requested fans to go through the clips of five upcoming songs on her site, and to recommend which should be the lead-off single. The tracks posted were: "L.A. Made Me", "Hurricane Girl", "Voodoo", "A Little Bit", and "Trip Around the World". On December 1, 2009 it was announced that her debut album Voodoo would be released on March 30, 2010. The debut single, Trip Around The World, was released on February 2, 2010 along with a music video shot by Michael Maxxis. Johnson shared in an interview that her favourite songs of Voodoo are "Look At Those Eyes", "Voodoo", and "Gonna Get It".[9]
Later in 2010, Johnson informed her fans through her Twitter account and her official website that all the songs from Voodoo would be remixed by The Demolition Crew due to lack of airplay. The Demolition Crew undertook to make the songs more radio-friendly. Reloaded, as the remix album's name is, was released on April 26, 2011. The first single, "Boogie Love (The Demolition Crew Remix)" was released on January 11, 2011 while the second one, "Look At Those Eyes (The Demolition Crew Remix)", was released on March 29, 2011.
While awaiting the release of Reloaded, Johnson became a trending topic on Twitter for four days. This was due to the ABC Family television series Pretty Little Liars playing "Time to Be Your 21," a song sung by Johnson in the series Instant Star, in the season finale. While trending on Twitter, she garnered attention from Demi Lovato and Nelly Furtado. Lovato has spoken several times about Johnson being her inspiration to start a career in music, while Furtado spoke about her single "Look At Those Eyes" calling it "an event". With the help of the Twitter trend, Johnson made the homepage of several online sites, including L.A. Times Ministry of Gossip Blog.[10]
Johnson created a YouTube account where she posts videos of herself performing along with her brother Brendan James Johnson, and Jimmy Robbins. On June 22, 2011 Johnson held two live concerts on Stage It for fans around the world. The concerts were performed online via webcam along with her band "The Bed". On June 24, 2011 it was announced that Johnson was the new voice of television series Degrassi: The Next Generation Season 11 new opening theme song. The idea came naturally as Demacio "Demo" Castellón was producing the track and asked her if she could contribute to it.[11]
[edit] 2011-present: The Basement Recordings and Skipping Stone
Johnson has revealed that she is writing for her next album and hoping to enter the studio by the end of the Summer to start recording. Her brother and Johnson released a digital album of demos entitled, The Basement Recordings, on August 26, 2011.
In October, via Twitter, Johnson announced her plans to release an EP featuring new material, and confirmed on October 29, that she was in New York filming the music video for her new single Skipping Stone. Johnson confirmed that her EP, Skipping Stone would be out on January 24, 2012. She also confirmed that it would originally be a digital release, and following her Kickstarters Campaign, a physical release would follow.[12] The video for Skipping Stone was released in December.[13]
Beginning on January 24, 2012, Johnson launched a Kickstarter Campaign in order to raise funds for her upcoming U.S tour. She set her goal for $30,000 in 60 days. For different money denominations, Johnson is offering prizes. Examples include, digital downloads of her upcoming EP, Skipping Stone, signed t-shirts and CDs, signed scripts and clothing from Instant Star, concert tickets, personalized emails and phone calls, live performances, dinner and a broadway show, etc. Johnson unexpectedly reached her goal within 24 hours, confirming her ability to tour during the summer of 2012. Johnson reached $50,000 on day three, allowing her the opportunity to expand the tour and travel overseas. All money donated goes toward touring, recording, merchandise and anything music related.[14]
On February 28, 2012, Johnson announced during a concert that "The Basement Recordings 2" would be released by the end of April.
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During 2001, Johnson worked with World Vision, and had a section on her official site where fans could order shirts with a design done by Johnson and also featuring her autograph. Unfortunately, there were production problems and the shirts were never sent out. Johnson made an apology on her site and provided refunds to everyone who ordered one. In 2002, she performed as the opening act at Wayne Gretzky's celebrity dinner and auction, held in Edmonton, Alberta, to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald children's charity.
During the peak of her run on So Weird, Johnson ended up performing and visiting the Nashville Kids Fair where she also hosted the event. During her time in Nashville, Johnson ended up visiting ill children in a local hospital. The trip was made as a part of an outreach by Disney Channel, as Johnson visited the children with the dog who starred in the Disney original film Air Bud.
During 2002 and 2003, Johnson focused on her music, but decided to perform with several charitable organizations. She worked with David Foster, opening for his charity events for the David Foster Foundation. After the season premiere of the second season of Instant Star on The N she also did a public service announcement for Second Harvest which was assisting the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
On November 21, 2008, Johnson was a special guest performer for a Women In Leadership (a Vancouver organization promoting women's role in the media) foundation called SuperWomen & Friends - A Red Carpet Gala.
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2000–2001 | So Weird | Annie Thelen | 26 episodes |
| 2001 | Express Yourself | Herself | TV Series |
| 2004 | Chris Isaak Show, TheThe Chris Isaak Show | Jennifer | Episode: "Taking Off" |
| 2004 | The Collector | Isabelle Van Sant | Episode: "The Ice Skater" |
| 2004 | Cold Squad | Deirdre Spence / Tricia Spence | Episode: "Teen Angel" |
| 2004–2008 | Instant Star | Jude Harrison | 52 episodes |
| 2005 | Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical | The Arc-ettes / Vocal Ensemble | |
| 2005 | Selling Innocence | Angel | TV movie |
| 2006 | Final Destination 3 | Erin Ulmer | |
| 2006 | Planned Accidents | Herself | Video documentary |
| 2006 | Instant Star | Herself | Backstage Pass |
| 2006 | Death's Design: Making 'Final Destination 3' | Erin/Herself | TV documentary |
| 2006 | Dead Teenager Movie | Herself | |
| 2006 | Kill Shot: The Making Of 'FD3' | Herself | Video documentary |
| 2007 | Devil's Diary | Dominique | TV movie |
| 2008 | 10th Annual Leo Awards | Herself | |
| 2009 | Smallville | Imra Ardeen / Saturn Girl | Episode: "Legion" |
| 2009 | Stranger with My Face | Laurie Stratton / Lia Abbot | TV movie |
| 2011 | Listener, TheThe Listener | Marissa "Hack Girl" Patterson | Episode: "Jericho" |
| 2011 | Haven | Maura Keegan | Episode: "Roots" |
| 2013 | House of Bodies | Kelli | Film |
Discography[link]
Studio albums[link]
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| 2010 | Voodoo
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Remix albums[link]
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| 2011 | Reloaded
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| 2011 | The Basement Recordings
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| 2012 | Skipping Stone
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| 2012 | The Basement Recordings II
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Soundtracks[link]
- Songs from Instant Star (2005)
- Songs from Instant Star Two (2006)
- The N Soundtrack (2006)
- Songs from Instant Star Three (2007)
- Songs from Instant Star Four (2008)
- Instant Star: Greatest Hits (2009)
Singles[link]
- 2005: "24 Hours"
- 2006: "How Strong Do You Think I Am"
- 2007: "Where Does It Hurt"
- 2010: "Trip Around the World"
- 2011: "Boogie Love (The Demolition Crew Remix)"
- 2011: "Look At Those Eyes (The Demolition Crew Remix)"
- 2011: "Skipping Stone"[13]
- TBA: "Walking"
Promotional Singles[link]
- 2011: "Trip Around The World (The Demolition Crew Remix)"
Music videos[link]
| Title | Year | Director(s) |
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| "24 Hours" | 2005 | N/A |
| "Trip Around The World" | 2010 | Michael Maxxis |
| "Boogie Love" | 2011 | Adam |
| "Look At Those Eyes" | Jason Romolo | |
| "Skipping Stone" | Jessica Earnshaw | |
| "Walking" | 2012 |
References[link]
- ^ Edmonton Sun: Alexz Johnson ready to take risks 23 January 2205
- ^ a b AhmedBakhsh.com: Alexz Johnson Interview 18 August 2010
- ^ Movie: Final Destination 3
- ^ a b Ca. "Alexz Johnson | Gratis muziek, tourneedata, foto's, video's". Myspace.com. http://www.myspace.com/alexzjohnson. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
- ^ "Stephen Stohn (Stephen Stohn) op Myspace". Myspace.com. 2011-10-28. http://www.myspace.com/StephenStohn. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
- ^ "Alexz Johnson (Page 6) - Interviews - Entertainment". ALLOY.com. http://www.alloy.com/5/86/7328/6/ref/5/86/7328/5/. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
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- ^ http://alexzonline.com/pages.php
- ^ "http://thesoundalarm.com/?p=1667
- ^ Saad, Nardine (March 22, 2011). "Who is Alexz Johnson and why was she trending on Twitter?". L.A. Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/03/alexz-johnson-twitter-trend-thief.html.
- ^ "http://www.teennick.com/blog/degrassi-now-or-never-open-theme-alexz-johnson.html
- ^ alexzhasablog.com
- ^ a b "Official website". http://alexzjohnson.com/. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- ^ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/525963075/alexz-johnson-tour-2012
- ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/skipping-stone-ep/id515526531/
External links[link]
- Alexz Johnson at the Internet Movie Database
- The Official Alexz Johnson Website
- Alexz Johnson Official Myspace
- VH1 Artist Page
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| Name | Johnson, Alexz |
| Alternative names | Johnson, Alexzandra Spencer (birth name) |
| Short description | Canadian actor and singer-songwriter |
| Date of birth | November 4, 1986 |
| Place of birth | New Westminster, British Columbia, Columbia |
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