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2012年8月26日 · Aisslinn Nosky. At age three she began studying violin with Vivian Pritchard at a community music school in Nanaimo. She then continued at the Nanaimo Conservatory for ten years with Heilwig von Königslöw, whom she credits with inspiring her to pursue a life in music.
2007年7月17日 · Joyce Hahn, singer, TV host (born 31 January 1929 in Eatonia, SK; died 13 December 2021 in Sparks, Nevada). As a child, Hahn performed from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s with The Harmony Kids, a family troupe formed by her father, Harvey, and including her brothers Bob and Lloyd and sister Kay.
2006年2月7日 · Obasan, a novel by Joy Kogawa (1981), is the first novel to trace the internment and dispersal of 20 000 Japanese Canadians from the West Coast during WWII. The narrator, a schoolteacher, was a child when her family was exiled to an interior BC ghost town; after the war ended, the fractured family was again shunted, this time to southern Alberta.
- Early Years
- Education
- Career at CBC
- Founding of City-TV
- Specialized Television
- Later Years
- Acting and Producing
- Family Connections
- Personal Life
- Awards
Moses Znaimer’s father, Aron, from Latvia, and mother, Chaja, from Poland, were Jewish and met while fleeing from Europe to escape the Holocaust. Znaimer was born in 1942 on a train passing through Tajikistan, but does not know his exact date of birth; when asking his mother, he would simply be told, “it was wartime.” After the war, the family move...
Znaimer studied political science and philosophy at McGill University, graduating in 1963. It was at McGill that he met Marilyn Lightstone at the McGill Players’ Club and began their long professional and personal relationship. He went on to receive a master’s degree in politics from Harvard University in 1965.
Znaimer’s career began with the CBC in Montréal and Ottawa as a host, director and producer, most notably as host of CBC Radio’s Cross Canada Checkup. That program introduced Znaimer to the innovative and democratic use of technology as it allowed listeners to voice their opinions on diverse topics from thousands of miles away. From Cross Canada Ch...
Feeling constrained by CBC’s corporate environment, Znaimer and partners Phyllis Switzer, Ed Cowan and Jerry Grafstein founded the freewheeling City-TV (now Citytv) in Toronto in 1972. City-TV became Toronto’s first independent and privately owned TV station. Znaimer worked in an executive role with City-TV for several decades, even after selling h...
Early on, Znaimer anticipated that television would move toward specialized channels that tailored their programming to consumers’ specific interests. During his years at City-TV, he was behind numerous programs and channels that changed the landscape of Canadian media. In 1979, two years before the birth of MTV, Znaimer helped developed producer J...
Znaimer was forced out of City-TV in 2003. In 2008, he launched Zoomer magazine, aimed at adults over 50 and positioned as a voice for mature Canadians, whom Znaimer dubs “zoomers,” or “boomers with zip.” Znaimer also advocates for aging Canadians as the president of the Canadian Association for Retired Persons (CARP), a non-profit organization aff...
Znaimer’s work as an actor includes: a part as a mobster in Louis Malle’s Atlantic City (1980), which was the first Canadian co-production to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and the only Canadian film to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival; the thriller The Best Revenge (1984); and a cameo in Robert Lantos’s Genie Award-nominate...
Znaimer published an account of his parents’ escape from the Nazis in the collection Passages: Welcome Home to Canada (Doubleday Canada, 2002). Znaimer’s sister, Libby Znaimer, is a journalist who worked for The Associated Press, Global Television, City-TV and CP24. A national spokesperson for Pancreatic Cancer Canada, she wrote In Cancerland: Livi...
Znaimer developed a reputation as the “bad boy of Canadian television” due to his aggressive pursuits of opportunities, as well as his “aggressive sexuality,” which the Toronto Starreferred to in 2009 as his “most vivid personality tic.” He is known for his tight control of his image in the media, and the way he crafts an enigmatic persona through ...
Honorary Doctor of Letters, Athabasca University(1996) Golden Ribbon Award for Broadcast Excellence, Canadian Association of Broadcasters (1998) Honorary Doctor of Letters, York University(2001) Queen Elizabeth Golden Jubilee Medal (2002) Honorary Doctorate of Laws, University of Windsor(2003) Lifetime Artistic Achievement (Broadcasting), Governor ...
2011年10月25日 · Alternative rock band 54-40 rose from the Vancouver punk scene of the late 1970s to achieve mainstream success in Canada in the late 1980s and the 1990s.
2011年1月3日 · Loosely structured around one man's quest to trace the enigmatic family history he believes lies concealed in the pages of a colonial diary, the novel evolves into an increasingly elusive book of secrets.
2006年9月21日 · One of the most honoured Canadian films of all time, The Sweet Hereafter won eight Genie Awards, including best picture, director and actor (Ian Holm). It earned Academy Award nominations for adapted screenplay and director — the first time a Canadian has been nominated in the director category for a Canadian feature.
