Episode 071 – Canadian Content

This episode we’re talking about Canadian Content! We discuss books by indigenous authors, French Canadian literature, the immigrant experience, what it means to be Canadian, and more! Plus: The Log Driver’s Waltz!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jean Broughton

Questions

• Do you know the history of Canadian Content in media?
• Do you deliberately read Canadian (authors, content)? Why?
• How do you define “Canadian literature”?

Media We Mention

• Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power by Ryan North and Erica Henderson
• The Log Driver’s Waltz
• • Wikipedia
  • Animation
• The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier
• • Wikipedia
  • Animation
• Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan
• Canadian Whites (WWII-era comics in Canada)
• • Brok Windsor by Jon Stables
  • Nelvana of the Northern Lights by Adrian Dingle
  • Bell Features Collection – Library and Archives Canada Rare Book Collection
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• About Betty’s Boob by Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau
• The Young in One Another’s Arms by Jane Rule
• nîtisânak by Lindsay Nixon
• 100 Days in Uranium City by Ariane Dénommé
• Bottle Rocket Hearts by Zoe Whittall
• Ru by Kim Thúy
• Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
• Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• • Graphic novel series
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Movie)
• Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

Links, Articles, and Things

• Canadian Content (Wikipedia)
• So what makes it Canadian? (CRTC website)
• The MAPL system – defining a Canadian song
• Heritage Minutes
• • Wilder Penfield (the “burnt toast” video)
• Canadians reading fewer domestic books, report shows
• Confederation Poets
• What Is CanLit? By Douglas Coupland
• The More Canada Report: Increasing Canadians’ Awareness and Reading of Canadian Books
• Local libraries see surge in Indigenous materials being checked out
• Boylesque TO: The people who did Oh Manada!
• Kit Pearson
• Speed Dating Through the Genres: Fiction in Translation: French-Canadian (Meghan’s presentation)
• • Slides
  • Handout
• CanLit is a Raging Dumpster Fire by Alicia Elliott
• Vivek Shraya’s arts grant
• The Canada Council for the Arts Grants
• Prix Bédélys: Québec comic awards
• Québec Reads
• Guy Delisle
• Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v Canada
• Sixties Scoop
• Honest Ed’s

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Join us again on Tuesday, March 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Occult/Mysticism/New Age/Esoteric/Magic (non-fiction)!

Then on Tuesday, March 19th we’ll be talking about Reading Habits and Reading Spaces!