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Jordan Wheeler
Jordan Wheeler (born 1964) is a Cree-Canadian writer. Along with numerous children's books, Wheeler has written scripts for the APTN National News, APTN and CBC News, CBC. He's also received a Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program or Series for his work on renegadepress.com. He is a member of the George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan. Publications * ''Brothers In Arms,'' published 1989 by Pemmican Publications * ''Adventure on Thunder Island'' with Edna King'','' published January 1, 1991 by James Lorimer Limited * ''Tapping the Gift: Manitoba's First People,'' published 1992 by Pemmican Publications * ''All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction'', published December 31, 1992 by University of Oklahoma Press * ''Just a Walk'', illustrated by Christopher Auchter, published 1993 by Theytus Books * ''Tortured People: The Politics of Colonization'' with Howard Adams'','' published 1992 by Theytus Books * ''Christmas at Wap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APTN National News
''APTN National News'' is a Canadian television national news program broadcast by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The program formerly broadcast in two daily editions, ''APTN National News Daytime'' at 12:30 p.m. and ''APTN National News Primetime'' at 6:30 p.m.. The program now produces a single half hour of news each day, broadcasts at 6 and 11:30 p.m. Eastern Time nightly, as well as various specialty programs including ''Investigates'' on Mondays and Fridays, ''Laughing Drum'', a half hour talk show where comedians review the headlines of the week, ''Face-to-Face'', a long form interview show, ''InFocus'' an hour long live interactive talk show, and ''Nation to Nation'', a show examining the political relationship between First Peoples and Canada. Each day there are also short headline news updates on the hour during the afternoon. The daily newscast's current presenters are Dennis Ward and Melissa Ridgen. Ridgen als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renegadepress
''renegadepress.com'' is a Canadian teen drama television series, produced by Corner Gas, Vérité Films for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Plot The storyline follows the lives of a group of teenagers running an e-zine about their daily experiences. The main characters are Zoey (Ksenia Solo), an average upper middle-class girl who thinks of herself as a bit of a nerd, and Jack (Bronson Pelletier), a boy of First Nations in Canada, First Nations origin. The series deals with teenage topics, including relationships, sex and drugs. Every season, two to three new characters are introduced, who join in writing the e-zine. These characters are usually added to explore new areas of teen life and problems. The show is no longer in production, although reruns continue to air on APTN. In 2008, the Global Television Network also began airing the show's first season. TFO, the French language educational broadcaster in Ontario, has also aired a French dubbing (filmmaking), dubbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Paris Book Festival
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers Guild Of Canada
The Writers Guild of Canada is an organization representing more than 2,500 professional writers working in film, television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication Media (communication), medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of Transmission (telecommunications), television tra ..., radio, and digital media production in Canada. Members of the Guild write dramatic television program, TV series, feature films, Movies of the Week, Documentary film, documentaries, animation, comedy and Variety show, variety series, children's and educational programming, radio drama, as well as corporate videos and digital media productions. The organization administers the annual WGC Screenwriting Awards. The WGC is the voice of professional Canadian screenwriters - lobbying on their behalf, protecting their interests, and working to raise the profile of screenwriters and screenwriting. Most importantly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gemini Awards
The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in the United States and the BAFTA Television Awards in the United Kingdom. First held in 1986 to replace the ACTRA Award, the ceremony celebrated Canadian television productions with awards in 87 categories, along with other special awards such as lifetime achievement awards. The Academy had previously presented the one-off Bijou Awards in 1981, inclusive of some television productions. In April 2012, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced that the Gemini Awards and the Genie Awards would be discontinued and replaced by a new award ceremony dedicated to all forms of Canadian media, including television, film, and digital media, dubbed the " Canadian Screen Awards". The first annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on 4 March 2013. The Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Of 60
''North of 60'' is a 1990s Canadian television drama depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest (north of 60° north latitude, hence the title). It first aired on CBC Television in 1992 and was syndicated around the world. It is set in the fictional community of Lynx River, a Canadian Indigenous community depicted as being in the Dehcho Region, Northwest Territories. Most of the characters were Dene. Some non-native characters had important roles: the restaurant/motel owner (a Ukrainian immigrant), the band manager, the nurse (a white Canadian woman) and (during the show's first season) the town's RCMP Detachment Commander. The show explored themes of Native poverty, alcoholism, cultural preservation, conflict over land settlements, and natural resource exploitation. Originally somewhat light-hearted (a CBC response to the very successful '' Northern Exposure'' on CBS), it quickly became a more sombre dramatic series which explored subplots including murder, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rez
''The Rez'' is a Canadian drama television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1996 to 1998. Bruce McDonald and Norman Jewison were executive producers of the series, which chronicled life in an Ojibway community. The series is based on the short story collection ''Dance Me Outside'' by W. P. Kinsella and its 1994 film adaptation by McDonald. It was cancelled after two seasons. Cast *Ryan Rajendra Black - Silas Crow * Jennifer Podemski - Sadie Maracle * Darrell Dennis - Frank Fencepost * Tamara Podemski - Lucy Pegahmagabow * Elaine Miles - Mad Etta (season 2) * Gary Farmer - Chief Tom *Adam Beach - (played Frank Fencepost in ''Dance Me Outside'', but was recast in the series as "Charlie") * Kari Matchett- Tanya Nanibush * Patricia Collins - Eleanor Nanibush * Herbie Barnes - Joseph Crow * Monique Mojica - Mad Etta (Season 1) * Shirley Cheechoo - Simone Crow Production Bruce McDonald was executive producer with Norman Jewison. Most of the characters were based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Turning Back (documentary)
No Turning Back may refer to: Politics * No Turning Back (political group), a group within the British Conservative Party Music Albums * ''No Turning Back'' (Brandon Heath album), 2015 * ''No Turning Back'' (Burning Starr album), 1986 * ''No Turning Back'', by Calyx, 2005 * ''No Turning Back'', by Dan McCafferty, 2023 * ''No Turning Back'' (Imelda May album), 2003 * ''No Turning Back'' (Out of Eden album), 1999 * ''No Turning Back'', by Hilton Schilder, 2003 * ''No Turning Back'', by Ian Stuart Donaldson, 1989 * ''No Turning Back'', by Jersey, 1998 * ''No Turning Back'', by Jimi Hocking's band Jimi the Human & Spectre 7, 1990 * ''No Turning Back'', by Kevin Borich Express, 1979 * ''No Turning Back: 1985–2005'', a DVD collection by Glass Tiger Songs * "No Turning Back", by Blyss feat. Krystal Davis, 1986 * "No Turning Back", by This Beautiful Republic, 2008 * "No Turning Back", by Cliff Richard and the Drifters from ''Serious Charge'', 1959 * "No Turning Back", by DJ Snea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Shirley Holmes
''The Adventures of Shirley Holmes'' is a Canadian mystery TV series that originally aired from May 7, 1997, to May 7, 2000. The show was created by Ellis Iddon and Phil Meagher (of Winklemania Productions, UK) who had produced a successful series of books with HarperCollins, teaming up with Credo and Forefront to develop the TV series. Filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the series follows the life of Shirley Holmes, the great-great-niece of Sherlock Holmes who, with the help of ex-gang member Bo Sawchuk, tackles a variety of mysteries in and around the fictional city of Redington, Manitoba. On some occasions, she found herself matching wits with nemesis Molly Hardy (whose name is a word play on Sherlock Holmes' archenemy Professor Moriarty). The show has been broadcast in over 80 countries and has been dubbed in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Polish and Turkish. Her performance in the show led to actress Meredith Henderson being nominate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prairie Berry Pie
Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type. Temperate grassland regions include the Pampas of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, and the steppe of Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. Lands typically referred to as "prairie" tend to be in North America. The term encompasses the area referred to as the Interior Lowlands of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, which includes all of the Great Plains as well as the wetter, hillier land to the east. In the U.S., the area is constituted by most or all of the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and sizable parts of the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and western and southern Minnesota. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mentors (TV Series)
''Mentors'' is a Canadian science fiction fantasy series that aired on Family Channel. It was aired on Discovery Kids in the United States and Latin America. It also aired in Japan on NHK where it was dubbed in Japanese. In 2017, the first season started streaming worldwide for free on Canada Media Fund's Encore+ YouTube channel until it was shut down in 2022. Plot ''Mentors'' follows the adventures of 15-year-old boy genius Oliver Cates who uses his computer to bring famous historical figures such as Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, and Joan of Arc from the past into the present for 36 hours. He and his friend Dee Sampson often use the device to help cope with the challenges of being teenagers, as well as learning about history. Eventually Oliver hands the machine over to his two cousins Simon and Crystal, who bring forward figures such as Confucius, Anaïs Nin Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (February 11, 1903 – January 14, 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
