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How the West Island's health-care system struggled through the 1st wave Jonathan Montpetit © Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press A sick resident is trundled out of CHSLD Herron to be taken to hospital on April 11. It was 11:30 on a night in early May when Louisa Mussells Pires first walked into a long-term care home in Lachine and learned some hard truths about the health-care system in one of the richest countries in the world. Pires, 31, had almost finished nursing school. There was a crying need for extra staff in Quebec's long-term care network, which had been decimated by...

Illustration By Tim Peacock The family-friendly Hollywood giant bets that more adult programming will help boost subscribers — at the risk of brand confusion. When Disney launched streamer Disney+ in November 2019, it leaned on the global recognition of Luke Skywalker, Iron Man, Moana and Buzz Lightyear to great effect. The service attracted 95 million subscribers in a little more than a year. Soon, Disney will find out what happens when characters like Olivia Pope, Betty Suarez and Jack Bauer crash its streaming party. On Feb. 23, Disney began adding programming that skews more adult to Di...

Goteborg TV Drama Vision Attracts 500 Delegates with Strong Program Annika Pham, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail A record 500 delegates have signed up for Scandinavia’s leading TV drama confab, TV Drama Vision, which is set to unspool online over Feb. 3-4, parallel to Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival. Next to honorary guest – Danish writer-helmer Susanne Bier (“The Night Manager”, “The Undoing”), 30 keynote speakers will share their insights, business and creative tips on how to boost global industry resilience at a time of unprecedented challenges under COVID-19. Walter Iuzzo...

Johanna Koljonen, media analyst and author of the Göteborg Film Festival’s Nostradamus report, will present its eighth edition. Other highlights include the launch of HBO Max in Europe and a look at the local original content to be included. Nordic broadcasters and streamers (SVT, YLE, NRK, DR, Viaplay, TV2 Danmark and TV4) will present some of their upcoming series and their plans for the future, while a special session on the advantages of virtual production is also being organised. The event is also looking further afield from just the Nordics, with a discussion on the global succe...

Content Insider Special – Virtual CES 3 By Andy Marken – Since the earliest CES, the OMG of the show has always been the screen … bigger, better, brighter, more immersive, more versatile, less expensive. That’s a good thing because this year’s virtual event (and our locked at home lives) would have been terribly dull without the screen … and the content. 5G/NextGen TV, streaming and remote learning/work/communications tools are great, but they are nothing without the content creation industry – audio, video, gaming. Content and virtual CES became even more important ingredients...