Bill 101
“There will have to be some sort of legislation which is, to say the least, an imperfect tool, sometimes a cruel tool to many people, because it changes the rules of the game, from way back.”— René Lévesque, 1978 IN…
Morris Wolfe
Essays, New & Selected
Morris Wolfe
Essays, New & Selected
WASP Racism
Had I pursued a Ph.D., I would have specialized in periodical literature; I’ve loved old magazines since I was a kid. After I began writing for Saturday Night, it became apparent that the magazine’s financial situation was so precarious that…
MTM TV
Some of my television columns examined particular themes — the treatment of old people on TV, for instance. The following column looked at the treatment of women. … “As Mary Tyler Moore goes, so goes the nation.”— Maude BACK IN…
Jolts Per Minute
In trying to describe the difference between American and Canadian television, I came up with the crude but I think useful notion of ‘jolts per minute’ (JPMs). American programmes had far more. … CLEARLY, IT WAS A COUP for 90 Minutes…
Growing Up With a Three-Minute Attention Span
In 1973 I became Saturday Night’s television critic, a position I held through 1980. I found myself focusing on the nature of the medium and the the differences between Canadian and American culture as revealed by looking at my television…