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Jasper, Alberta
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Jasper is a specialized municipality in western Alberta, Canada. It is the centre of Jasper National Park, located in the Canadian Rockies within the Athabasca River valley. Jasper is approximately 362 kilometres west of Edmonton and 290 kilometres north of Banff, Alberta, at the intersection of Highway 16 and Highway 93. The Municipality of Jasper, comprising the Jasper townsite known as the Town of Jasper, governance is shared between the municipality and the federal Parks Canada agency. Jasper National Park was established in 1907, the railway siding at the location of the future townsite was established by Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1911 and originally named Fitzhugh after a Grand Trunk vice president. The Canadian Northern Railway began service to Fitzhugh in 1912, the townsite was surveyed in 1913 by H. Matheson. It was renamed Jasper after the fur trade post. An internment camp was set up at Dominion Park in Jasper from February 1916 to August 1916, by 1931, Jasper was accessible by road from Edmonton, and in 1940 the scenic Icefields Parkway opened, connecting Lake Louise and Jasper. Jasper is located in the Athabasca River valley, at the confluence with Miette River and it lies between the Victoria Cross Ranges, Pyramid Mountain, Maligne Range and Indian Ridge. Jasper is connected to the west via the Yellowhead Highway and the Yellowhead Pass to Prince George, toward the south, the Icefields Parkway leads to Banff and Banff National Park. Located near Jasper are Pyramid Lake and Patricia Lake, as well as Lake Annette, Lake Edith, Lac Beauvert, Maligne Lake, Medicine Lake and other smaller lakes. The Jasper Skytram, which visitors to The Whistlers summit. The Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives is located in the Jasper town site, Jasper experiences a borderline Humid Continental/Subarctic climate. The highest temperature recorded in Jasper was 36.7 °C on 16 July 1941. The coldest temperature recorded was −47.2 °C on 24 January 1916. With a land area of 924.06 km2, it had a density of 5. 0/km2 in 2016. In the 2011 Census, the Municipality of Jasper had a population of 4,051 living in 1,399 of its 1,615 total dwellings, a change of -5% from its 2006 population of 4,265. Statistics Canada subsequently amended the 2011 census results to record a population of 4,432 living in 1,606 of its 1,819 total dwellings, with a land area of 925.52 km2, its population density was 4. 8/km2 in 2011
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Television program
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It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions. A limited number of episodes of a show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are divided into seasons or series. While there is no defined length, U. S. industry practice has traditionally favored longer television seasons than those of other countries, a one-time broadcast may be called a special, or particularly in the UK a special episode. A television film is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in theaters or direct-to-video, a program can be either recorded, as on video tape, other various electronic media forms, played with an on-demand player or viewed on live television. Television programs may be fictional, or non-fictional and it may be topical, or historical. They could be primarily instructional or educational, or entertaining as is the case in situation comedy, a drama program usually features a set of actors playing characters in a historical or contemporary setting. The program follows their lives and adventures, except for soap opera-type serials, many shows especially before the 1980s, remained static without story arcs, and the main characters and premise changed little. If some change happened to the characters lives during the episode, because of this, the episodes could be broadcast in any order. Since the 1980s, there are series that feature progressive change to the plot. For instance, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were two of the first American prime time television series to have this kind of dramatic structure. While the later series, Babylon 5 is an example of such production that had a predetermined story running over its intended five-season run. In 2012, it was reported that television was growing into a component of major media companies revenues than film. Some also noted the increase in quality of television programs. When a person or company decides to create a new series, they develop the elements, consisting of the concept, the characters, the crew. Then they offer it to the networks in an attempt to find one interested enough to order a prototype first episode of the series. They want very much to get the word out on what types of shows they’re looking for, to create the pilot, the structure and team of the whole series must be put together. If the network likes the pilot, they pick up the show to air it the next season, sometimes they save it for mid-season, or request rewrites and further review
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Ukrainian Canadians
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Ukrainian Canadians is a term that refers to Canadian citizens of Ukrainian descent or Ukrainian-born people who immigrated to Canada. Self-identified Ukrainians are the plurality in several areas of Western Canada. Of the 1,251,170 who identify as Ukrainian, galicians are noted as being among the miners of the British Columbia gold rushes and figure prominently in some towns in that new provinces first census in 1871. Because there is so little documentary evidence of individual Ukrainians among these three groups, they are not generally regarded as among the first Ukrainians in Canada. During the nineteenth century the territory inhabited by Ukrainians in Europe was divided between the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, the Austrian crownlands of Galicia and Bukovyna were home to many Ukrainian speakers. Austrian Galicia was one of the poorest and most overpopulated regions in Europe, emigration on a large scale from Galicia to the Balkans and even to Brazil was already underway by 1891. The first wave of Ukrainian immigration to Canada began with Iwan Pylypow and Wasyl Eleniak, who arrived in 1891, Pylypow helped found the Edna-Star Settlement east of Edmonton, the first and largest Ukrainian block settlement. However, it is Dr. Ukrainians from Central Ukraine, which was ruled by the Russian monarchy, also came to Canada – but in numbers than those from Galicia. Approximately 170,000 Ukrainians from the Austro-Hungarian Empire arrived in Canada from 1891 to 1914, as well, the semi-feudal nature of land ownership in the Austrian Empire meant that in the Old Country people had to pay the pan for all their firewood and lumber for building. They also attached importance to settling near to family, people from nearby villages or other culturally similar groups. The ULFTA transformed itself into the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians in 1946, by 1914, there were also growing communities of Ukrainian immigrants in eastern Canadian cities, such as Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton, and Windsor. Many of them arrived from the provinces of Podillia, Volhynia, Kyiv, from 1914 to 1920, the political climate of the First World War allowed the Canadian Government to classify immigrants with Austro-Hungarian citizenship as aliens of enemy nationality. This classification, authorized by the 1914 War Measures Act, permitted the government to legally compel thousands of Ukrainians in Canada to register with federal authorities, about 5,000 Ukrainian men, and some women and children, were interned at government camps and work sites. Most were placed by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association and its supporters, the Endowment Council of the CFWWIRF uses the interest earned on that amount to fund projects that commemorate the experience of Ukrainians and other Europeans interned between 1914 and 1920. The funds are held in trust by the Shevchenko Foundation and this was known as Project Сто, and organized by the UCCLA. In 1923, the Canadian government modified the Immigration Act to allow citizens of the Austrian Empire to once again enter Canada –. Around 70,000 Ukrainians from Poland and Romania arrived in Canada from 1924 to 1939, relatively little farmland remained unclaimed – the majority in the Peace River region of northwestern Alberta – and less than half of this group settled as farmers in the Prairie provinces. A few Ukrainian professionals and intellectuals were accepted into Canada at this time and they established a number of new organizations and affiliated newspapers, womens and youth groups, the most prominent of which was the Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine
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University of Victoria
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The University of Victoria is a large public research university located in Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia, Canada. The University of Victoria, founded in 1903, is the oldest university in British Columbia and began as Victoria College, the University of Victoria is a non-denominational institution which is mostly centred around the leafy suburbs of Oak Bay. The university consists of more than 20,000 students, including many post-graduate, the University of Victoria is one of the most international universities in Canada, attracting students from around the world. The University of Victoria has also produced several Rhodes Scholars and Gates Scholars in recent years, while its alumni, academically, the University of Victoria is noted for its programs in the Faculty of Law, Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, Economics, Political Science, Earth and Ocean Sciences and it is the nations lead institution in the VENUS and NEPTUNE deep-water seafloor observatory projects. The University of Victoria boasts one of the largest financial endowments in Canada, the Victoria Vikes represent the university in a number of competitive sports, including rowing, sailing, rugby, soccer, and basketball. The Vikes have especially long and eminent ties to competitive rowing where it has competed with the University of Cambridge, Sailing is also a popular sport for students at the University of Victoria and the UVic Sailing Club maintains facilities and boats on campus at the nearby Cadboro Bay. UVic consistently ranks as one of the top universities in Canada and it has been the top-ranked comprehensive university in Canada since 2010. In this category, Macleans magazine ranks UVic either first or second for eight consecutive years and it also ranked first nationwide and 20th internationally in the Times Higher Educations ranking of schools under 50 years old. In global rankings, UVic is within the top one per cent of universities around the world and it clocked in its highest ranking at 135 globally in 2010 and has since maintained a strong presence in global ranking charts. UVic has also named as the Canadian Research University of the Year for 12 of the past 14 years by Research Infosource. The university has also been home to more than 40 faculty members who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada since it was founded. Victoria College, which had established in 1903 as an affiliated college of McGill University, gained autonomy. The non-denominational university had enjoyed 60 years of prior teaching tradition at the university level as Victoria College and this 60 years of history may be viewed conveniently in three distinct stages. Between the years 1903 and 1915, Victoria College was affiliated with McGill University, offering first- and second-year McGill courses in Arts, administered locally by the Victoria School Board, the College was an adjunct to Victoria High School and shared its facilities. Both institutions were under the direction of a single Principal, E. B, the opening in 1915 of the University of British Columbia, established by Act of Legislature in 1908, obliged the college to suspend operations in higher education in Victoria. University of British Columbia was created in 1908, a single, public provincial university, it was modeled on the American state university, with an emphasis on extension work and applied research. The president, appointed by the board, was to provide a link between the two bodies and to perform institutional leadership
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Vancouver
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Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, the Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre. With over 250,000 residents, Vancouver municipality is the fourth most densely populated city in North America behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. In that census, Vancouver was one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the annual TED conference made Vancouver its indefinite home, several matches of the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup were played in Vancouver, including the final at BC Place Stadium. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west, Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B. I. As of 2014, Port Metro Vancouver is the third largest port by tonnage in the Americas, 27th in the world, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, archaeological records indicate the presence of Aboriginal people in the Vancouver area from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The city is located in the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam. They had villages in various parts of present-day Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, Kitsilano, Point Grey, the city takes its name from George Vancouver, who explored the inner harbour of Burrard Inlet in 1792 and gave various places British names. The explorer and North West Company trader Simon Fraser and his became the first known Europeans to set foot on the site of the present-day city. In 1808, they travelled from the east down the Fraser River, perhaps as far as Point Grey. The Fraser Gold Rush of 1858 brought over 25,000 men, mainly from California, to nearby New Westminster on the Fraser River, on their way to the Fraser Canyon, a sawmill established at Moodyville in 1863, began the citys long relationship with logging. It was quickly followed by mills owned by Captain Edward Stamp on the shore of the inlet. This mill, known as the Hastings Mill, became the nucleus around which Vancouver formed, the mills central role in the city waned after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s. It nevertheless remained important to the economy until it closed in the 1920s. The settlement which came to be called Gastown grew up quickly around the original makeshift tavern established by Gassy Jack Deighton in 1867 on the edge of the Hastings Mill property
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Supernatural (U.S. TV series)
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Supernatural is an American fantasy horror television series created by Eric Kripke. It was first broadcast on September 13,2005, on The WB, starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, the series follows the two brothers as they hunt demons, ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural beings. The series is produced by Warner Bros, Television, in association with Wonderland Sound and Vision. Along with Kripke, executive producers have been McG, Robert Singer, Phil Sgriccia, Sera Gamble, Jeremy Carver, John Shiban, Ben Edlund, former executive producer and director Kim Manners died of lung cancer during production of the fourth season. The series is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia and surrounding areas and was in development for nearly ten years, as creator Kripke spent several years unsuccessfully pitching it. The pilot was viewed by an estimated 5.69 million viewers, originally, Kripke planned the series for three seasons but later expanded it to five. The fifth season concluded the main storyline, and Kripke departed the series as showrunner. The series has continued on for more seasons with new showrunners, including Sera Gamble, Jeremy Carver, Robert Singer. The series was renewed for a season, which premiered on October 7,2015. With its eleventh season, Supernatural became the longest-running American fantasy series, the series was renewed for a twelfth season, which premiered on October 13,2016. On January 8,2017, The CW renewed the show for a thirteenth season, before bringing Supernatural to television, creator Eric Kripke had been developing the series for nearly ten years, having been fascinated with urban legends since he was a child. Although he had envisioned Supernatural as a movie, he spent years unsuccessfully pitching it as a series, Kripke wanted it to be a road trip series, feeling that it was the best vehicle to tell these stories because its pure, stripped down and uniquely American. These stories exist in small towns all across the country. As he had written for The WB series Tarzan, Kripke was offered the chance to pitch show ideas to the network. However, the network disliked his tabloid reporter idea, so Kripke successfully pitched his idea of the characters being brothers. He decided to have the brothers be from Lawrence, Kansas, because of its closeness to Stull Cemetery, when it came time to name the two lead characters, Kripke decided on Sal and Dean as an homage to Jack Kerouacs road-trip novel On the Road. However, he felt that Sal was inappropriate for a main character and it was originally intended for the brothers last name to be Harrison as a nod to actor Harrison Ford, as Kripke wanted Dean to have the devil-may-care swagger of Han Solo. However, there was a Sam Harrison living in Kansas, so the name had to be changed for legal reasons, combining his interest in the Winchester Mystery House and his desire to give the series the feel of a modern-day Western, Kripke settled on the surname of Winchester
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Radio broadcasting
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Radio broadcasting is a unidirectional wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a radio format. Audio broadcasting also can be done via radio, local wire television networks, satellite radio. The signal types can be either analog audio or digital audio, the earliest radio stations were simply radiotelegraphy systems and did not carry audio. For audio broadcasts to be possible, electronic detection and amplification devices had to be incorporated, the thermionic valve was invented in 1904 by the English physicist John Ambrose Fleming. He developed a device he called an oscillation valve, the heated filament, or cathode, was capable of thermionic emission of electrons that would flow to the plate when it was at a higher voltage. Electrons, however, could not pass in the direction because the plate was not heated. Later known as the Fleming valve, it could be used as a rectifier of alternating current and this greatly improved the crystal set which rectified the radio signal using an early solid-state diode based on a crystal and a so-called cats whisker. However, what was required was an amplifier. The triode was patented on March 4,1906, by the Austrian Robert von Lieben independent from that, on October 25,1906 and it wasnt put to practical use until 1912 when its amplifying ability became recognized by researchers. By about 1920, valve technology had matured to the point where radio broadcasting was quickly becoming viable, however, an early audio transmission that could be termed a broadcast may have occurred on Christmas Eve in 1906 by Reginald Fessenden, although this is disputed. Charles Herrold started broadcasting in California in 1909 and was carrying audio by the next year, in The Hague, the Netherlands, PCGG started broadcasting on November 6,1919, making it, arguably the first commercial broadcasting station. In 1916, Frank Conrad, an engineer employed at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, began broadcasting from his Wilkinsburg. Later, the station was moved to the top of the Westinghouse factory building in East Pittsburgh, Westinghouse relaunched the station as KDKA on November 2,1920, as the first commercially licensed radio station in America. The commercial broadcasting designation came from the type of broadcast license, the first licensed broadcast in the United States came from KDKA itself, the results of the Harding/Cox Presidential Election. In 1920, wireless broadcasts for entertainment began in the UK from the Marconi Research Centre 2MT at Writtle near Chelmsford, England. A famous broadcast from Marconis New Street Works factory in Chelmsford was made by the famous soprano Dame Nellie Melba on 15 June 1920 and she was the first artist of international renown to participate in direct radio broadcasts. The 2MT station began to broadcast regular entertainment in 1922, the BBC was amalgamated in 1922 and received a Royal Charter in 1926, making it the first national broadcaster in the world, followed by Czech Radio and other European broadcasters in 1923
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The Dead Zone (TV series)
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Stephen Kings Dead Zone is an American/Canadian science fiction drama television series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. The show was commissioned for UPN, but the network later dropped the show. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for its first five seasons, the sixth and last season was billed as The season that changes everything and production was moved to Montreal. The Dead Zone was expected to be renewed for a season, however, due to low ratings and high production costs the series was canceled in December 2007. Some rumors spread that Syfy would pick up the series after it was canceled by USA, rumors of a made-for-TV movie have all but faded with time. Small-town teacher Johnny Smith is involved in a car accident that leaves him comatose for six years. Johnny also learns that his fiancée, Sarah, gave birth to his son in the following the accident. With the help of Sarah, her husband Walt, and physical therapist Bruce, however, his attempts to do good are complicated by intermittent visions of apocalyptic events brought about following the future election of congressional candidate Greg Stillson. Anthony Michael Hall — John Robert Johnny Smith Nicole de Boer — Sarah Anne Bracknell-Bannerman John L. Adams — Bruce Lewis Chris Bruno — Sheriff Walter T, Walt Bannerman Connor Price — John Johnny JJ Bannerman/Smith David Ogden Stiers — Rev. An encounter with a trickster in the first episode makes it clear Johnny already has some psychic abilities. Sarah Bracknell Bannerman — Johnnys former fiancée, and the mother of his son, Sarah married Walt Bannerman during Johnnys coma, and the two are raising J. J. together. Sarah knew Johnny when they were children, and later taught at the school as him. Sarahs mother died when she was a teenager, which strained her relationship with her father, at the end of season 5, Sarah was pregnant with Walts child. At the beginning of season 6, she gives birth to Walts daughter, Sheriff Walt Bannerman — The relationship between Johnny and Walt is initially very rocky, as Johnny often feels that Walt stole Sarah from him. However, since then as Johnny displays his powers more and more often in law enforcement situations, Johnny becomes an asset to Walt, and the two become friends. The name Walt Bannerman is a combination of the names George Bannerman and Walt Hazlett, in the novel, George Bannerman was the sheriff, at the beginning of season 6, Walt is killed in a fire at the Faith Heritage Chapel. However, he continued to pop up throughout the season in visions, flashbacks, Bruce Lewis — A physiotherapist who helps Johnny regain his strength after his coma. Bruce is an open-minded spiritual junkie as a result of a religious upbringing by his pastor father and he is Johnnys best friend and frequently his voice of reason, and may very well be the reason for the divergence in this series when compared to the novel or 1983 movie
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Flashpoint (TV series)
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Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11,2008 on CTV. In the United States, the originally aired on CBS, then aired on Ion Television. The series was broadcast on the Canadian French-language network V in Quebec, the series was created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern and stars Hugh Dillon, Amy Jo Johnson, David Paetkau, Sergio Di Zio and Enrico Colantoni. It was announced January 25,2011 that Ion Television had acquired all rights to the held by CBS including the option to continue production. After the fourth season of Flashpoint concluded, a season was ordered. On May 1,2012, the announced that the fifth season would be the last of the series. The series finale aired on December 13,2012, the show focuses on a fictional elite tactical unit, the Strategic Response Unit, within a Canadian metropolitan police force. The SRU are tasked to resolve extreme situations that regular officers are not trained to handle, including hostage-taking, bomb threats, although the team is seldom seen doing so, they do sometimes discuss the day job of serving high-risk arrest warrants. Equipped with high-tech tools and a cache of weapons and explosives, members use negotiation tactics and intuition to try to avoid the use of deadly force, the outcome of a given situation is often determined by a split-second decision, hence the shows title. Ruth Marshall left the series after Season 1 and Mark Taylor left after the episode of Season 2 after his character, Lou. During Amy Jo Johnsons maternity leave, she was replaced by Jessica Steen. Steen left the main cast in the episode of Season 2, Part 1. Taylor was replaced by Olunike Adeliyi, who portrays Leah Kerns as of the episode of Season 2. In season 4, episode 5, Michael Cram, known as Wordy, Cram was replaced by Clé Bennett, portraying Rafik Rousseau. This character left by the first episode of Season 5, two episodes later, Adeliyis character returned to Team One. In an interview, the creators stated that they liked to cast only Canadians in Flashpoint. The latter two both reside in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Bass holds dual Canadian-U. S, Flashpoint began life in 2005 as a part of a CTV project that encouraged actors to submit scripts to the network. The original Flashpoint script was for a two-hour TV movie, cTVs interest in the project led to Flashpoints being reworked as a regular CTV series, which was approved in mid-December 2007
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Being Erica
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Being Erica is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that aired on CBC from January 5,2009 to December 12,2011. Created by Jana Sinyor, the series was announced by the CBC as The Session. It is produced by Temple Street Productions and distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide, in Canada, the second season premiered on September 22,2009. Only 12 episodes were produced for the season due to budget cuts at the CBC. On May 11,2010, the CBC announced that Being Erica was renewed for a season of 13 episodes. Soapnet announced that it was picking up the third season as well. Season 3 debuted on September 21,2010, at 9 pm ET, in the United States, Season 3 began aired on Soapnet starting January 26,2011. The shows fourth and final aired in fall 2011. Because the show involves time travel, very young versions of the characters are played at times by different actors, Erica Strange – the protagonist in the series. At the beginning of the series, she is thirty-two, single, Jewish, however, she is an underachiever who has recently been fired from a mindless customer service job because she is overqualified. She has a nut allergy and after drinking a coffee with a nut syrup in she ends up in hospital where she is approached by someone she initially believes to be connected with the hospital. He introduces himself as Dr Tom and says he is a therapist who can help her, once home again, she is convinced poor choices made in her past have made her life a failure and seeks Dr. Toms help to undo many of her mistakes. She has a degree in English literature. During the third season she and Julianne start their own publishing company 50/50 Press, having written short stories throughout her life, Erica aspires to write fiction as an author. In the season 3 finale, Erica passes Dr. Toms test at the end of group therapy, the penultimate episode of season 3 ends with Erica walking down a street in Toronto looking for somebody to give her business card to so they can become her first patient. In the series finale of season 4, Erica successfully completes her doctor training and her office is a quote-plastered artists studio loft with a honeycomb-style bookcase and a tan leather chair behind a large, red desk. Even though she has to bid farewell to Dr. Tom, Dr. Tom Wexlar – Ericas therapist. He has a habit of citing quotations, often to Ericas annoyance, instead of helping Erica directly with her problems when they meet in the past, he is often vague and inscrutable, giving clues that relate to her present-day life
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The L Word
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The series originally ran on Showtime from January 18,2004 to March 8,2009, and subsequently in syndication on Logo and through on-demand services. The show was created by executive producer Ilene Chaiken, other executive producers include Steve Golin and Larry Kennar. Besides Chaiken, writers of the show have included Guinevere Turner, Susan Miller, Cherien Dabis, the pilot episode premiered on January 18,2004. The original six-year run ended with the series airing on March 8,2009. Outside the United States, the series is distributed by MGM Worldwide Television, the L Word was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, at Coast Mountain Films Studio, as well as on location in Los Angeles, California. The studio was owned by and named for Dufferin Gate Productions, the sister company to Temple Street Productions. The main characters throughout the series, and the seasons in which appeared and left, The original code-name for the project was Earthlings. Contemporary use of the phrase the L word as an alias for lesbian dates to at least the 1981 play My Blue Heaven by Jane Chambers, in which a character stammers out, lord God, I never met one before. Season 1 premiered in the United States on January 18,2004, on Showtime, set in West Hollywood, the series first introduces Bette Porter and Tina Kennard, a couple with a seven-year relationship who want to have a child. Tina eventually becomes pregnant through artificial insemination but has a miscarriage during episode 1.09, Luck, Later in the series, Bette develops an affair with Candace Jewell. The pilot introduced a coming out/love triangle storyline involving Tina and Bette’s neighbor, Tim Haspel, his girlfriend, Jenny Schecter. Marina is part of Tina and Bette’s circle of friends, and owns the neighborhood café, The Planet, which serves as the groups hang-out and focal point for the show. In the first season, Dana falls for a chef named Lara Perkins whose sexuality is questioned by the group until Lara has an unexpected meeting with Dana in the locker room. At the end of the season, Tina sees Bette and Candace touching hands, Tina and Bette break up, with Tina living at Alices and Bette stays in their home. Season 2 began airing on Showtime on February 20,2005 and it starts by unveiling to the viewers a secret Tina is keeping from everyone, she successfully became impregnated after a second insemination. Tina and Bette are still apart, Tina and Bette reconcile during the final episode. The character of Marina was written out of the show, mark makes them part of his latest documentary by setting up hidden cameras in the house to videotape them. During episode 2.09, Late, Later, Latent, Jenny discovers Mark’s tapes, Season 2 introduces a developing affair between Alice and Dana, which becomes public in episode 2.07, Luminous
