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Jun. 26th, 2007 01:30 pm"Half-heartedly is never how Jack and Meg White, together known as the White Stripes, do things. While most people celebrate anniversaries with a nice dinner, a bottle of bubbly or maybe a weekend away, the Detroit rockers opted for something a little more dramatic: an expansive 10th-anniversary Canadian tour that will take the pair to every single Canadian province and territory - Nunavut, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories - and a special anniversary show in Glace Bay, N.S., where Jack has family roots. (After that, they're heading south of the border to perform in all of 16 states they've never played before.) And, kicking off the tour at Deer Lake Park just outside of Vancouver, they're doing it in style."
The Globe and Mail
Jennifer Van Evra
June 26, 2007
Tragically, I won't be able to see the Stripes on this tour, because I'll be writing exams when they're in town. I'm seriously hoping they add another date, but doubting the possibility because of the difficulties inherent to scheduling a cross country tour in Canada. Most big ticket Canadian acts stick to the big cities and never get very far from the US border. Setting aside the difficulties of traveling across Canada vs traveling in the US, it's extremely difficult for an act like the White Stripes to book dates in places like Whitehorse. I read (in an article that I'm too lazy to look up) that the money men were veeeery nervous about this wacky Canadian tour proposal and that just getting it off the ground was an organizational nightmare. And I wouldn't be surprised if this tour has some very slim profits.
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My family was just talking about the state of the Canadian publishing industry the other night, so I read this article with interest:
"Industry challenges are myriad, ranging from a weak U.S. dollar in relation to the Canadian currency, which is cutting into the value of book sales, to changes in the U.S. booksellers' market, leaving Canadian publishers scrambling to keep up.
Together, these factors amount to a slow but steady drop in exports over the past five years and may help explain the growth in Canada's "cultural goods deficit." Book exports to the United States slid 23.6 per cent between 2002 and 2006, Statistics Canada said yesterday, as the greenback tumbled 26 per cent against the loonie."
The Globe and Mail
Tavia Grant
June 26, 2007
(For the sake of clarity, last I checked the exchange rate was about 1.07) The continuing stratospheric climb of the Canadian dollar (as compared to its value even 5 years ago) causes a inspires a certain patriotic pride (OMG we don't suck!), but the decline of the US dollar is causing serious problems in an economy that's so geared to producing exports for the American market. Damn you Bush and your totally wack economic policies!
What's really interesting is that Grant points out that cultural imports from China are growing (mainly books). He doesn't say, but I think that these are probably American books printed in China. This calls for some research!
The Globe and Mail
Jennifer Van Evra
June 26, 2007
Tragically, I won't be able to see the Stripes on this tour, because I'll be writing exams when they're in town. I'm seriously hoping they add another date, but doubting the possibility because of the difficulties inherent to scheduling a cross country tour in Canada. Most big ticket Canadian acts stick to the big cities and never get very far from the US border. Setting aside the difficulties of traveling across Canada vs traveling in the US, it's extremely difficult for an act like the White Stripes to book dates in places like Whitehorse. I read (in an article that I'm too lazy to look up) that the money men were veeeery nervous about this wacky Canadian tour proposal and that just getting it off the ground was an organizational nightmare. And I wouldn't be surprised if this tour has some very slim profits.
***
My family was just talking about the state of the Canadian publishing industry the other night, so I read this article with interest:
"Industry challenges are myriad, ranging from a weak U.S. dollar in relation to the Canadian currency, which is cutting into the value of book sales, to changes in the U.S. booksellers' market, leaving Canadian publishers scrambling to keep up.
Together, these factors amount to a slow but steady drop in exports over the past five years and may help explain the growth in Canada's "cultural goods deficit." Book exports to the United States slid 23.6 per cent between 2002 and 2006, Statistics Canada said yesterday, as the greenback tumbled 26 per cent against the loonie."
The Globe and Mail
Tavia Grant
June 26, 2007
(For the sake of clarity, last I checked the exchange rate was about 1.07) The continuing stratospheric climb of the Canadian dollar (as compared to its value even 5 years ago) causes a inspires a certain patriotic pride (OMG we don't suck!), but the decline of the US dollar is causing serious problems in an economy that's so geared to producing exports for the American market. Damn you Bush and your totally wack economic policies!
What's really interesting is that Grant points out that cultural imports from China are growing (mainly books). He doesn't say, but I think that these are probably American books printed in China. This calls for some research!