Le Canard Réincarné Rejected By Culture Canada

Posted on Thursday, February 03 at 11:13 by gaulois
Heritage Canada "passport to the world of Canadian culture on-line" culture.ca site was asked a month ago to help in the promotion of "Le Canard Réincarné" online community for Franco-Colombians. The webmaster of Le Canard was notified this morning with following:

...votre site Web a été rejeté par l’équipe de contenu de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada pour la raison suivante:

(translation: ...your web site was rejected by the content team of Library and Archives Canada for the following reason)

Se site est avant tout un forum de discussion et est en construction.

(translation: this site is primarly a discussion forum and is under construction)

The site is intended for Franco-Colombians to write in French again on whatever they are interested in under either "news", "articles", "forums" and "polls". The site is no longer in construction and twenty members have so far signed up; 25000 unique visits have been registered so far. The local Centre Culturel Francophone has accepted to host a Café-Philo on the topic of online communities and Radio-Canada has accepted to promote event. A local community newspaper was also featuring a story on this unique initiative last week-end.

Note that vivelecanada.ca was once submitted and accepted by culture.ca but it could not be found recently somehow.

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  1. Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:02 pm
    If you search culture.ca with 'vive le canada', we pop up at the top of the list.

    Paul Harris

  2. Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:26 pm
    Problem is that vive does not show under any heading:

    Édition et imprimés (88 sites)
    Film (63)
    Radio (27)
    Télévision et vidéo (40)

    or

    Books, Magazines and Newspapers (488 sites)
    Film (183)
    Radio (74)
    Television and Video (120)


    So what is the point of putting it in there???


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    "We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

  3. Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:56 pm
    It was found under the last heading in People and Diversity category:

    Biography and Genealogy (415 sites)
    Social Sciences (1236)
    Languages (291)
    Community and Institutions (783)
    Education and Schools (1109)
    Politics, Government and Citizenship (809)

    But not under media where I was loking for them.
    I would expect then that Le Canard would fit somewhere alongside.



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    "We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

  4. Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:04 pm
    I also note that Vive does not exist on the Francais side???

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    "We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

  5. Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:03 pm
    I'm not defending culture.ca. Looking at the mandate they post on their site, it seems to me that Le Canard Réincarné fits their vision.

    But if the issue really is that Le Canard Réincarné remains under construction, isn't that a valid reason to exclude it at this time? (note that I couldn't find Le Canard Réincarné myself so I couldn't check it out ... I did see it last week when I responded to the first message on Vive about it, but I can't remember what it looked like).

    Paul Harris

  6. Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:49 pm
    The site has not been labelled under construction for at least two weeks now. I put this disclaimer earlier on as I was populating article, news, forum, poll and initial membership content. Site has also been highly available on a high availability server for over two weeks too. You can check site at: <a href="http://lecanardreincarne.freesoul.ca">http://lecanardreincarne.freesoul.ca</a><br />
    <br />
    Le Canard is obviously not going to have the same breadth and reach as Vive as our target population is so tiny (and even struggling with writing in French amongst a slew of other issues). So we neeed culture.ca to be a whole lot more reasonable in their expectations, specially when not a single FHQ site has survived so far in the ROC. The attitude of operating a cultural monopoly through subsidies within Canada Heritage needs to be dramatically changed before one FHQ forum site can survive. How can you account that when looking at their people "perspective", I have found one single entry for FHQs west of Ontario? How many other "Canard" have they rejected so far??? I was a hardcore federalist until I actually opened my eyes on what these people have been doing to so called protected cultural minorities. And what I have found is not a pretty sight.<br />
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    <p>---<br>"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"



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