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Andrea Menard
Andrea Menard (born 1971) is a Canadians, Canadian actress, playwright, and jazz singer. Early life Menard was born in 1971 in Flin Flon, Manitoba and based in Saskatchewan. Career Menard, who is of Métis people (Canada), Métis descent, is best known for her work on the television series ''Moccasin Flats'' (2003) (in which she played a police officer with the Regina Police Service in the city of Regina, Saskatchewan) and for her starring role as Constable Tara Wheaton in the television series ''Rabbit Fall'' (2007–2008). She is currently the voice of characters Sarah Merasty and Kohkum on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, APTN stop motion animated program ''Wapos Bay: The Series'' (2005–Present). An accomplished jazz singer, Menard wrote and composed a one-woman, musical one act play entitled ''The Velvet Devil'', which opened to rave reviews in 1998. A soundtrack album featuring 18 songs was released in 2002 and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC made a fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flin Flon, Manitoba
Flin Flon (pop. 5,185 in 2016 census; 4,982 in Manitoba and 203 in Saskatchewan) is a mining city, located on a correction line on the border of the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with the majority of the city located within Manitoba. Residents thus travel southwest into Saskatchewan, and northeast into Manitoba. The city is incorporated in and is jointly administered by both provinces. Etymology The town's name is taken from the lead character in a 1905 paperback novel, ''The Sunless City'' by J. E. Preston Muddock. Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin piloted a submarine into a bottomless lake where he sailed through a hole lined with gold to enter a strange underground world. A copy of the book was allegedly found and read by prospector Tom Creighton. When Tom Creighton discovered a high-grade exposure of copper, he thought of the book and called it Flin Flon's mine, and the town that developed around the mine adopted the name. Flin Flon shares the distinction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SaskTel
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corporation, operating as SaskTel, is a Canadian crown-owned telecommunications firm based in the province of Saskatchewan. Owned by the provincial government, it provides wireline and wireless communications services, including landline telephone, mobile networks, broadband internet (including copper DSL, fibre to the home, and wireless broadband), IPTV, and security services. Through a subsidiary, SaskTel International, the company has also worked on telecom infrastructure projects in countries such as Argentina and the Bahamas, as well as being the lead implementation company for the communication and control systems of the Channel Tunnel between England and France. As of 2022, SaskTel serves around 1.4 million customers, and has an annual revenue of around . History SaskTel was established pursuant to the Telephone Acts as the Department of Railways, Telegraphs and Telephones on June 12, 1908, and through acquisitions of other ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sullivan's Crossing (TV Series)
''Sullivan's Crossing'' is a Canadian drama television series, which premiered on March 19, 2023 on CTV. Premise Based on the novel series by Robyn Carr, the series stars Morgan Kohan as Maggie Sullivan, a neurosurgeon who finds herself in legal trouble and returns to her hometown in rural Nova Scotia to reconnect with her estranged father, Sully. Cast Main * Morgan Kohan as Maggie Sullivan * Chad Michael Murray as Cal Jones * Tom Jackson as Frank Cranebear * Andrea Menard as Edna Cranebear * Scott Patterson as Harry 'Sully' Sullivan Supporting * Lynda Boyd as Phoebe Lancaster * Allan Hawco as Andrew Mathews * Amalia Williamson as Lola Gunderson * Peter Outerbridge as Walter * Dakota Taylor as Rafe Vadas * Lauren Hammersley as Connie Boyle * Reid Price as Rob * Lindura as Sydney Shandon Episodes Production Development The series was produced by Reel World Management in collaboration with Bell Media and Fremantle. Production on the series started in June 2022 in Nova Scotia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribal (TV Series)
''Tribal'' is a Canadian television crime drama series, which premiered February 20, 2020 on APTN. The series stars Jessica Matten as Sam Woodburn, the newly appointed chief of an indigenous police force in the Nêhiyawak First Nation in Alberta, and Brian Markinson as Chuck “Buke” Bukansky, a racist and sexist white cop from Calgary whom she is paired with to solve crimes.Sabrina Furminger"Vancouver actor tackles ugly role in APTN police procedural Tribal" ''Vancouver Courier'', February 12, 2020. The cast also includes Adam MacDonald, Ryan Northcott, Julian Black Antelope, Garry Chalk, Justin Rain, Michelle Thrush, Glen Gould, John Cassini, Joel Oulette, Marika Sila, and Georgina Lightning. The first season consists of eight episodes directed by Ron E. Scott. In advance of the series premiere, APTN announced that the show will have a second season. The second season of ten episodes premiered on October 21, 2021 and was directed by Ron E. Scott and Asaf Benny. The series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supernatural (U
Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature. The term is derived from Medieval Latin , from Latin (above, beyond, or outside of) + (nature) Though the corollary term "nature", has had multiple meanings since the ancient world, the term "supernatural" emerged in the Middle Ages and did not exist in the ancient world. The supernatural is featured in folklore and religious contexts, but can also feature as an explanation in more secular contexts, as in the cases of superstitions or belief in the paranormal. The term is attributed to non-physical entities, such as angels, demons, gods, and spirits. It also includes claimed abilities embodied in or provided by such beings, including magic, telekinesis, levitation, precognition, and extrasensory perception. The philosophy of naturalism contends that nothing exists beyond the natural world, and as such approaches supernatural claims with skepticism. Etymology and history of the concept Occurr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Switch (TV Series)
''The Switch'' is a Television in Canada, Canadian television comedy series,"Vancouver-produced sitcom takes on TV transgender representation" CBC News, July 17, 2017."Canadian Trans Sitcom “The Switch” Crosses U.S. Border" ''Logo (TV channel), NewNowNext'', July 16, 2017."The Switch: First Scripted TV Show with a Trans L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctic Air
''Arctic Air'' is a Canadian drama television series that began airing on CBC Television on January 10, 2012. The series was canceled on March 17, 2014, due to government budgetary cuts. Synopsis ''Arctic Air'' is about a Yellowknife-based maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it. The owners are Mel Ivarson, an old school bush pilot; Krista Ivarson, Mel's daughter; and Bobby Martin, the son of Ivarson's deceased partner. Episodes focus on interpersonal conflicts between the characters as well as dramatic flying missions with their aging fleet of Douglas DC-3s, de Havilland Canada Beavers and other aircraft. Each episode has one or more flying missions. Cast * Adam Beach as Bobby Martin * Pascale Hutton as Krista Ivarson * Kevin McNulty as Mel Ivarson * Stephen Lobo as Dev Panwar * Carmen Moore as Loreen Cassway * John Reardon as Blake Laviolette * Emilie Ullerup as Astrid Poulsen * Timothy Webber as Cece Cooper * Rebecca Marshall as Lindsay Gallagher * Tan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Rock Medical
''Hard Rock Medical'' is a Canadian medical drama television series which aired on TVOntario (TVO) from 2013 to 2018. It was the first original drama series for TVO, the public television network for Ontario. The series also aired nationally in Canada on APTN beginning in 2014. The series ended after a five-season run in 2018. The series was filmed in Sudbury and North Bay, Ontario, and revolves around a group of medical students attending the fictional Boréal Medical School, loosely based on the real-life Northern Ontario School of Medicine. Internationally, the series also aired on Australia's National Indigenous Television (a channel operated by the Australian Special Broadcasting Service) as of 2014. Premise The series focuses primarily on a core group of eight medical students at Boréal Medical School: Nancy Siebolski (Angela Asher), Cameron Cahill (Jamie Spilchuk), Gary Frazier (Mark Coles Smith), Melanie Truscott (Melissa Jane Shaw), Charlie Rivière ( Stéphane Paq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackstone (TV Series)
''Blackstone'' is a Canadian television series which aired on APTN and Showcase. Written, created, directed and produced by Canadian producer Ron E. Scott, the series began filming its first season in 2010 in and around Edmonton, Alberta. The series has gone on to have four full seasons. Season five started production in spring of 2015 and premiered November 3, 2015. Season 5 was the final season. In 2015, Prairie Dog Film + Television announced a deal which will see the first and second seasons of the series given a second run on CBC Television as a summer series, . ''Broadcaster'', June 9, 2015. as well as making it available for download fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Mosque On The Prairie
''Little Mosque on the Prairie'' is a Television in Canada, Canadian television sitcom created by Zarqa Nawaz and produced by WestWind Pictures, originally broadcast from 2007 to 2012 on CBC Television, CBC. Filmed in Toronto, Ontario, and Indian Head, Saskatchewan, the series was showcased at the Dawn Breakers International Film Festival. After the series finale aired in April 2012, Hulu announced it would begin offering the series under the name ''Little Mosque'' that summer. The series made its U.S. premiere on Pivot (TV channel), Pivot in August 2013. Plot The series focuses on the Muslim community in the fictional prairie town of Mercy, Saskatchewan (population 14,000). The primary institutions of the community are the local mosque, presided over by imam Amaar Rashid and located in the rented parish hall of the town's Anglican church, and Fatima's Café, a downtown diner run by Fatima Dinssa. The community patriarchs are Yasir Hamoudi, a construction contractor who originall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renegadepress
''renegadepress.com'' is a Canadian teen drama television series, produced by Vérité Films for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Plot The storyline follows the lives of a group of teenagers running an e-zine about their daily experiences. The main characters are Zoey (Ksenia Solo), an average upper middle-class girl who thinks of herself as a bit of a nerd, and Jack ( Bronson Pelletier), a boy of First Nations origin. The series deals with teenage topics, including relationships, sex and drugs. Every season, two to three new characters are introduced, who join in writing the e-zine. These characters are usually added to explore new areas of teen life and problems. The show is no longer in production, although reruns continue to air on APTN. In 2008, the Global Television Network also began airing the show's first season. TFO, the French language educational broadcaster in Ontario, has also aired a French dubbed version of the program. In 2012, ''renegadepress.com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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