HE COUNTS THE STARS ONE AND ALL UPDATE
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This is a foreshadowing of what actually happens in the rest of the play. With this night's revels and expire the termīut He, that hath the steerage of my course,ĭirect my sail! On, lusty gentlemen. Some consequence yet hanging in the stars He means that the ladies (Juliet among them) will be so beautiful that they will shine like stars come down to earth.Īfter Mercutio's 'Queen Mab' speech, Benvolio says that if they don't go into Capulet's soon, they will be too late. Inviting Paris to his feast, Capulet says that there he will see 'Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light' (1.2.25). Such will be the love of Romeo and Juliet, because of the stars. The 'cross'd' in 'star-cross'd' means hindered, frustrated, thwarted, and defeated. “(It) has led to foreign artists performing covers of Canadian songs produced outside Canada being defined as Canadian, because they meet the standards for music and lyrics,” he says, “while Canadian artists performing songs written by non-Canadians and produced outside of Canada do not count as Canadian because only the artist requirement is met.In the Prologue the Chorus explains that two families of Verona are enemies, and that 'From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life / Whose misadventured piteous overthrows / Do with their death bury their parents' strife ( Prologue 5-8). Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair in internet law at the University of Ottawa, says the current criteria for what counts as a Canadian song can “lead to some odd quirks.” He says the definition of Canadian content needs updating in the bill. “We are concerned that unless the Canadian content requirements are updated, this bill could limit the exposure of emerging and beloved Canadian artists and, in turn, cause the overexposure of others, pushing listeners away.” They are also designed to introduce people to Canadian musicians and genres they might not have heard before, he says. The playlists are tailored to a listener’s musical tastes, partly based on what they tend to listen to. “This means that we carry a much wider category of tracks that we have identified as Canadian compared to what we believe would be classed as Canadian under current definitions,” Wiszniak says. The platform says it currently uses a range of data sources to determine if a song is Canadian, including self-reporting by the artist. Spotify curates 90 playlists spotlighting Canadian artists across a range of genres including country, Quebec rap, and francophone classics. At that point, the CRTC would be in charge of regulating streaming platforms and making sure they are promoting Canadian content that qualifies.

He has said he will issue the policy direction to the CRTC after the bill passes through Parliament. Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has said he plans to ask the broadcast regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, to review the definition of Canadian content. “Under current Canadian content definitions, many songs that we know and love from Canadian artists would not be classed as Canadian.” “It’s important to understand that today’s music world is international in nature, involving the collaboration of artists from across the globe,” says Nathan Wiszniak, Spotify’s head of Canadian artist and label marketing. Spotify says without a more flexible definition of what qualifies as Canadian content, it could end up promoting fewer tracks by the nation’s artists than it currently does on its Canadian playlists.

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To qualify as Canadian, songs must tick a series of boxes.Īccording to the current rules, a song must meet two of the following criteria to be counted as Canadian: being written entirely by a Canadian performed principally by a Canadian be broadcast or performed live in Canada or have lyrics written entirely by a Canadian.īieber’s “Ghost,” for example, only meets one of those requirements – meaning traditional broadcasters already cannot count it as Canadian content, and if the bill passes, Spotify and other streaming platforms won’t be able to either.

HE COUNTS THE STARS ONE AND ALL UPDATE

The bill aims to update the Broadcasting Act to bring streaming platforms under the same rules as traditional broadcasters, including requiring them to promote Canadian content. It says songs by Bieber and other well-known Canadian artists may not be counted as officially Canadian under Bill C-11, which is now moving through Parliament.Īmong the tracks unlikely to qualify under the strict Canadian content rules, Spotify says, are Bieber’s “Ghost,” Tate McRae’s “She’s All I Wanna Be” and Moroccan-Canadian singer Faouzia’s “Anybody Else.” Spotify, the world’s biggest streaming platform, where Bieber’s hits have been listened to millions of times, has doubts.

He counts the stars one and all