Among the first postings we made to the GDP Project last year was Brian Howell’s series of photo-essays on Mackenzie, a BC logging town that had been walloped by the crisis in the forestry sector. At the time six mills had recently closed within the immediate area, putting 1,500 people out of work. The local [...]
July 29th 2010 No Comments
The GDP Project goes Google Maps
We’ve been updating our Google Map throughout the last year of production – 127 films and 50 photo essays to date, with one month left. Here’s a quick access to our Google Map.
Tags: english posts · web
May 25th 2010 No Comments
Hot in here: Thoughts on GDP
As if we needed further evidence of the climate crisis, we recently learned the first quarter of 2010 was the hottest ever in recorded history. Yikes. Sobering but sadly unsurprising, the news adds extra urgency to some questions that have been preoccupying us here at the GDP project.
Is the goal of perpetual economic growth [...]
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February 12th 2010 No Comments
Part I: Roger Martin on the Canadian dimension of the crisis
Roger Martin is dean of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto. Previously he was a director with the global strategy consulting firm Monitor Company, and founded its Canadian office. He has written on integrative thinking, business design and corporate citizenship.
“By burning vast amounts of hydrocarbons or pouring poisonous stuff into rivers, we may get [...]
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February 10th 2010 1 Comment
The GDP Editorial: Our value-added
We’re putting our 90th media online this week. This is no small achievement. To underline this, we’re dedicating our next three editorials to the people who have made GDP project so relevant and successful.
Alison and Robert were the first volunteers to throw themselves into the GDP experience. “We remain hopeful that better years are to [...]
Tags: editorial · english posts · webdocumentary
February 2nd 2010 3 Comments
The new lost generation
TV Ontario’s (TVO.org) The Agenda, hosted by Steve Paikin, brings about one of the most fascinating questions that keeps popping up in these times of the recession: Youth’s chances.
Since I’m 13, I’ve always been told that there were very little jobs out there. The 1992 recession had done much damage and this meant a bleek [...]
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January 14th 2010 No Comments
Listening to change
Two of Canada’s leading columnists on finance and the economy are starting to ask the tough questions. On January 11th, Le Devoir’s Éric Desrosiers wonders whether we are experiencing A crisis for nothing? Andrew Willis asks Did we learn anything from the credit crisis? in The Globe and Mail on January 14th. While one talks [...]
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November 18th 2009 No Comments
GDP, the first NFB webdoc from A to Z
Come see a selection of shorts and meet the people behind them. Hosted by Hélène Choquette, director-coordinator of the project, with Dominic Morissette (filmmaker), Miguel Raymond (editor), Renaud Philippe (photographer), Marie-Claude Dupont (producer) and Alison (film participant).
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November 3rd 2009 1 Comment
Eating out is in
While preparing the second episode of our Jay & Gino story, unfolding in Windsor, I thought I’d look up a few trends about Canadian consumption.
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June 19th 2009 1 Comment
Atelier à Montréal
C’est aujourd’hui que s’achève une étape déterminante pour tous les membres de l’équipe du projet PIB/GDP. Nos huit réalisateurs de partout au Canada, rassemblés à Montréal pour un atelier de quatre jours, ont discuté de l’approche du projet. Ils ont échangé au sujet des façons que nous emploierons collectivement pour repousser davantage les limites du [...]
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