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    Comedy

    The development of comedy in Canada, like much of all show business in this country, has been tied closely to changing trends in North American popular culture, with Canadians often playing the role of trendsetters.

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    Comic Books in English Canada

    By the 1920s comics were an established popular art form in North America. With the advent of the Depression, however, significant changes occurred as publishers responded to the public's growing appetite for escapist entertainment.

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    Memorial Day

    Memorial Day (also known as Commemoration Day) is a statutory holiday observed on July 1 in Newfoundland and Labrador (see Provincial and Territorial Holidays). It began as an observance of the virtual annihilation of the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel on 1 July 1916 in the opening phases of the disastrous Battle of the Somme.

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    Communication Studies

    Research may focus on a variety of topics. Mass media are studied for the content of their programs, the way those programs are produced and the impact of various influences on programming. Media economic structure and the media's role in political life are also topics of research.

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    Communications

    Communications influence all societies, but Canada in particular takes its shape and meaning from communications systems.

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    Communications in Québec

    What is distinctive about communications in Québec is the existence of 2 often competing media serving different cultures and, above all, the ways in which francophone media have expressed or reinforced the character of French Canada.

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    Communications in the North

    Communications have played a special role in the North. Terrain, climate and distance made it difficult for northerners to communicate with each other or with southern Canada before the advent of electronic media. In traditional times, Inuit messages were passed through personal contact.

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    Community Arts Council of Vancouver

    Community Arts Council of Vancouver. Originally an advisory body, it was established in Vancouver in 1946, the first organization of its kind in North America.

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    Community Broadcasting

    Community Broadcasting is designed to fulfil social and cultural needs by allowing members of the audience to participate in decisions about programming and, in the case of radio, in the ownership of stations.

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    Community Concert Associations

    Community Concert Associations. Autonomous concert associations organized by individual communities and affiliated with Community Concerts, Inc, a subsidiary of Columbia Artists Management Inc, New York.

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    Comox Valley Youth Music Centre

    Comox Valley Youth Music Centre (formerly Courtenay Youth Music Camp).

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    Comparative Literature

    Comparative LiteratureComparative literature is the international or multilingual study of literary history, ie, of broad currents of thought and style and of major schools; of literary genres, forms and modes; of motifs and themes; of the presence of a work of literature, an author, a whole literature or even a country, in another national literature; of authors writing in different languages, but linked with "influences" and typological affinities. Comparative literature includes literary criticism and theory,...

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    Competition Festivals

    Competition festivals. Public, graded competitions for student and amateur classical musicians; school, amateur, and church choirs; and school, amateur, and civic instrumental ensembles. Contestants are adjudicated publicly by trained professionals who give them comparative marks.

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    Composition competitions

    Composition competitions. Increasingly numerous after 1950, sponsored by governmental, professional, educational, and other organizations. Prizes may be in the form of medals, scholarships, commissions, performances and cash, or cash alone.

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    Composition

    Composition Composition. See the following: Anthems, motets, and psalms Art song Ballets and dance theatre Brass Cantata Cello Choral composition Chamber music composition Christmas Composition, instrumental solos and duos Composition, topical Composition competitions Composition for ensemble teaching Composition techniques, contemporary Concertos and concertante music Double-bass Easter, Lent, the Passion Electroacoustic music Film scores Folk-music-inspired composition Guitar Harp Harpsichord composition Incidental music Librettos Literature set to music Lullabies Masses Musical theatre Opera composition Oratorio composition Orchestral...

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