Canuck

  Thursday, 19 December 2002

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Viewers leaving late-night news Peter Mansbridge and Lloyd Robertson are both seeing drops in their audience numbers. But it's the CBC that's really feeling the pain, writes GAYLE MacDONALD [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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COC upbeat, despite red ink

By ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN

TORONTO -- Optimism is running so thick at the Canadian Opera Company these days that not even a half-million-dollar deficit can dampen it.The COC announced Monday evening that it spent $476,000 more than it took it in 2002, snapping a five-year string of balanced budgets. Yet, with sod-turning for a Toronto opera house only months away, there was none of the chastened rhetoric usually heard when a company runs deep into the red.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]