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Little Bird (TV Series)
''Little Bird'' is a Canadian drama television series, which premiered on Crave (TV network), Crave and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, APTN lumi on May 26, 2023. Created by Jennifer Podemski and Hannah Moscovitch with the participation of Jeremy Podeswa as an executive producer, the series centres on a First Nations in Canada, First Nations woman who was adopted into a Judaism, Jewish family during the Sixties Scoop, as she attempts to reconnect with her birth family and heritage.Greg David"Bell Media announces English and French-language original programming orders and renewals for 2021/22 season". ''TV, eh?'', June 10, 2021. The series stars Darla Contois as Esther Rosenblum/Bezhig Little Bird, alongside Ellyn Jade, Osawa Muskwa, Joshua Odjick, Imajyn Cardinal, Mathew Strongeagle, Eric Schweig, Lisa Edelstein, Braeden Clarke and Michelle Thrush in supporting roles, with episodes directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Zoe Hopkins. The series was created concurrently w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crave (TV Network)
Crave (formerly The Movie Network or TMN) is a Canadian premium television network and streaming service owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc. Launched in 1983 as the national service First Choice, early difficulties and a subsequent industry restructuring led to its operations being restricted to Eastern Canada from 1984 to 2016; it then held a regional legal monopoly on movie-based premium TV services in its territory until the launch of the present-day Super Channel in 2007. The service changed its name to The Movie Network in 1993. In 2016, when Movie Central (which previously held a similar monopoly in Western and Northern Canada) wound down its operations, TMN resumed national operations and subsumed the former service's subscribers. In 2018, TMN merged its operations with the over-the-top (OTT) streaming service CraveTV; both services would be rebranded as Crave. With these changes, the streaming service added a premium tier, "Movies + HBO", which includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers (born in 1986) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor, and producer. She has won several accolades for her film work, including multiple Canadian Screen Awards. Born in Cardston, Alberta, Tailfeathers began acting in the late 2000s before embarking on a career as a filmmaker. For directing '' The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'', she shared the Canadian Screen Award for Best Director with Kathleen Hepburn. That film also won the Toronto Film Critics Association's $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. Early life Tailfeathers was born to Bjarne Store-Jakobsen, a Sámi rights activist and journalist from Norway, and Kainai activist and doctor Esther Tailfeathers, from Canada. Her parents met at a global indigenous peoples' conference in Australia, and married sometime after. Career Tailfeathers studied acting at the Vancouver Film School, and graduated in 2006 and then moved on to the University of British Columbia where she would gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Bainbridge
Catherine Bainbridge is a Canadian director, writer, and producer. She co-founded Rezolution Pictures, a Montreal-based film and television production company focusing primarily on Canadian Aboriginal productions, with director/writer/producer Ernest Webb in 2001. Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana wrote and directed '' Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World'' to highlight the role of Indigenous artists in American music history. With Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond she codirected the award-winning 2009 documentary ''Reel Injun ''Reel Injun'' is a 2009 Canadian documentary film directed by Cree filmmakers Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, and Jeremiah Hayes that explores the portrayal of Native Americans in film. ''Reel Injun'' is illustrated with excerpts from cla ...'', about the portrayal of Native Americans in movies, and the 2024 documentary '' Red Fever'', about cultural appropriation and the Western world's pop culture fascination with the stereotypical imagery of In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12th Canadian Screen Awards
The 12th Canadian Screen Awards were presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television to honour achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media production in 2023. They were held at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto from 28–31 May 2024, as part of Canadian Screen Week, with highlights of the final gala ceremony broadcast in a CBC Television special on 31 May 2024.Etan Vlessing"Canadian Screen Awards Gets New Date, Venue Change" ''The Hollywood Reporter'', February 8, 2024. Nominations were announced on 6 March; television drama '' Little Bird'' led in overall nominations with 19, while Matt Johnson's film ''BlackBerry'' received 17 nominations—becoming the most-nominated film in the history of the ceremony. Both ''BlackBerry'' and ''Little Bird'' would win the most awards in their respective categories. Ceremony information Due to venue availability issues in Toronto, the ceremony was delayed from a provisional April scheduling to May 2024. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC News
CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca. Founded in 1941 by the public broadcaster, CBC News is the largest news broadcaster in Canada and has local, regional, and national broadcasts and stations. It frequently collaborates with its organizationally separate French-language counterpart, Radio-Canada Info. History The first CBC newscast was a bilingual radio report on November 2, 1936. The CBC News Service was inaugurated during World War II on January 1, 1941, when Dan McArthur, chief news editor, had Wells Ritchie prepare for the announcer Charles Jennings a national report at 8:00 pm. Previously, CBC relied on The Canadian Press to provide it with wire copy for its news bulletins. Readers who followed Jennings were Lorne Greene, Frank Herbert and Earl Cameron. '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanna Icipus Kupi
Wanna may refer to: ;Places *Wanna, Pakistan, a city in South Waziristan, Pakistan *Wanna, Germany ;Other *Wanna (Dune) ''Dune'' is a science fiction media franchise that originated with the 1965 novel of the same name by American author Frank Herbert. ''Dune'' is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history, and won the 1966 Hugo Award ..., a minor character from Frank Herbert's novel ''Dune'' * "Wanna" (song), a single by Korean girl group Kara. *Relaxed pronunciation of "want to" or "want a" {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dakota). Saskatchewan and neighbouring Alberta are the only landlocked provinces of Canada. In 2025, Saskatchewan's population was estimated at 1,250,909. Nearly 10% of Saskatchewan's total area of is fresh water, mostly rivers, reservoirs, and List of lakes in Saskatchewan, lakes. Residents live primarily in the southern prairie half of the province, while the northern half is mostly forested and sparsely populated. Roughly half live in the province's largest city, Saskatoon, or the provincial capital, Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina. Other notable cities include Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Yorkton, Swift Current, North Battleford, Estevan, Weyburn, Melfort, Saskatchewan, Melfort, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zap2It
Zap2it was a website and digital media company that provided television program listings information for areas of the United States and Canada. Founded in 2000 by Tribune Media Services, the site has been owned by Nexstar Media Group since 2019. Zap2it also syndicated its listings data to a number of broadcasting and multimedia companies (such as Disney and Sinclair Broadcast Group), pay television providers (such as Wave Broadband, Cox and Dish Network) and publications (such as ''The New York Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', and ''The Washington Post'') for use online and in interactive programming guides. Tribune Media began shutting down the editorial content on the website in 2017, and by 2020, only the TV listings section remained. Around March 25, 2025, Zap2it was taken offline permanently. History Tribune Media Services first began to offer online listings services as a content provider to the online services Prodigy in the late 1980s and America Online in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Kidder
Janet Kidder (born 1972) is a Canadian actress known for her role of Osyraa in '' Star Trek: Discovery''. Biography Janet Kidder is the daughter of John Kidder and the niece of actress Margot Kidder. She was born in Cranbrook, B.C., the family moving to England when she was two, where she stayed until graduating before returning to Canada."This Kidder is wise to Hollywood's ways" by Bob Blakey, ''Calgary Herald'' (20 Dec 2001) inal EditionRetrieved from Career Janet and Margot Kidder both appeared in "Walk on By", an episode of '' La Femme Nikita'', as the younger and older Roberta, Nikita's mother. Janet's participation was in brief flashback sequences. She plays the character Lila Jacobs in the series ''Man in the High Castle'' and Osyraa in '' Star Trek: Discovery''. Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations In 2002 Kidder was nominated for a Gemini Award, in the category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role, for her perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Community Of Montreal
Montreal's Jewish community is one of the oldest and most populous in the country, formerly first but now second to Toronto and numbering about 82,000 in Greater Montreal according to the 2021 census. The community is quite diverse and is composed of many different Jewish ethnic divisions that arrived in Canada at different periods of time and under differing circumstances. Montreal's first Jews were Sepharadi and Ashkenazi Jews who had previously settled in Britain and from there moved to Canada as far back as the 18th century. Predominant in number and cultural influence throughout much of the 20th century were the Ashkenazi Jews who arrived from Eastern Europe mostly prior to and following World War II; they settled largely along the Main and in the Mile End, a life vividly chronicled by such writers as Mordecai Richler. There is also a substantial number of French-speaking Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews, originating from former French colonies in the Middle East and North Africa. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APTN Lumi , global video news agency
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APTN may stand for: * Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Canadian broadcast and cable television network * Asia-Pacific Telecentre Network, collaborative initiative of the United Nations * Associated Press Television News Associated Press Video, also referred to as AP Video and AP Television News (abbreviated APTN), is a global video news agency operated by The Associated Press (AP).Not to be confused with Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) About AP Tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
