The movie business is booming during the recession, but the Motion Picture Association of America would prefer not to talk about that. The organization has not yet issued its report on last year’s box-office take, and won’t give the report much publicity when it does come out; business was so good last year that there are fears that it might lead to attacks from Washington politicians, and further attempts to take away tax breaks and other goodies from Hollywood. In times like these, it’s good to know that there’s one business whose problem is that it’s doing too well.
Categories: Need to know
Hollywood pretends to be poor
Motion Picture Association is keeping the industry’s success secret
From Macleans
Sports
Is hockey becoming America’s game?
More kids, more rinks, and now, more popular than basketball
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Debating the Office of Religious Freedom
Welcome to The New Missionaries series, in partnership with the Canadian International Council
World
Syria: ‘Now this is a war’
Pro-democracy protesters talk to ‘Maclean’s’ about the toll of fighting the regime and their fears for the future
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The Internet is the opposition
Teh Internets have been saying one and the same thing about Vic Toews’ Lawful Access
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Vic Toews, meet Fake Ann Cavoukian
Ironically, Ontario’s privacy commissioner (a harsh critic of Lawful Access) also has a detested Twitter doppelganger
Canada
Canada’s foreign worker boom
Since 2006, Canada’s low-wage temporary workforce population has ballooned by 70 per cent
