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NOW Magazine – The Movie!

The Cash For Toronto campaign is very excited about becoming a Community Partner in an original Canadian
web comedy series: ‘NOW Magazine – The Movie’!

As a series of nine weekly episodes, our ‘episode’ is set to go live at 10:30 a.m. today!  We’re asking supporters to click on the link to the episode. Now Magazine-The Movie  If you enjoy it, please forward the link to others, because the partner with the most clicks per episode gets a NOW ‘THINK FREE’ ad at the end of the series! This kind of advertising will bump up my profile in the city as we work towards winning the riding of Davenport in the next federal election.

The series chronicles the history of Toronto’s #1 free weekly, a publication I’ve been proud to write for for over a decade.  The producer of the series, You and Media, has assembled a star-studded cast of  Canadian notables from the world of the arts, politics, and journalism such as Margaret Atwood, Moe Berg, Jim Cuddy, David Miller, Wayne Roberts, Sarah Harmer, Jian Ghomeshi & David Mirvish.

Thanks for your help

AC

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Dragons’ Den wins a Gemini

I do a bunch of music for Dragons’ Den–the reality show on CBC which has people pitching their business ideas to a panel of  successful entrepreneurs.  It is a runaway hit show and this week end won a Gemini Award for the best reality show on Canadian television!!

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Tories set to slash diversity fund for specialty music if we let them

By Andrew Cash

Well, we knew there had to be a hitch when Stephen Harper got up at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa to sing a Beatles song. Setting the bar sufficiently low – it was a song Ringo sang, after all – is a Harper specialty.

But as the country woke up to the image of our wooden PM at the piano, many Canadian recording artists were twigging to yet another arts cut – one they say will hobble Canada’s specialized music community.

And like Harper’s arts misstep in the last election, this one – the chopping of the Canada Music Fund’s Canadian Musical Diversity component – has once again engaged and enraged a grassroots arts revolt. Read the rest of this entry »

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Benefits for the self employed

OK, this bit of news is about time. The Conservative government in Ottawa has just announced measures to extend Employment Insurance benefits to the growing ranks of the self employed. Of course the devil, as usual with this crew, is in the details but this is a big step in the right direction–that direction being out of the past and into the future.

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