Word-challenged

Great, another "comedian".

1. "NL" does not stand for Newfoundland.


2. Babiche ("babbish") is not a Newfoundland word; it is a Labrador one. A Newfoundland and Labrador one, even. But not a Newfoundland one. It is a loanword from Innu-eimun, via the French (hence the giveaway -che spelling).


3. Babiche is not "like, snowshoes". It is what the webbing of snowshoes was traditional made with.


4. Call me old-fashioned, but aren't comedians supposed to be, like, funny?

Have you really, really heard...

... about Our Dear Equity Investment? The Comms Shop continues its due diligence in securing the votes of everyone associated with Republic of Dile unrelentingly reminding the entire universe of Our Patronage of the Arts:

Budget 2009: Building on Our Strong Foundation provided $1.5 million in film equity funding to Republic of Doyle. The size of the production will also enable producers to avail of up to $3 million through the Newfoundland and Labrador Film and Video Tax Credit. The value of economic spin-off resulting from the production is estimated at about $11 million.

Mkay... $4.5 million in direct and indirect provincial public support, to generate "about $11 million" in economic activity?

How much provincial public revenue is that "about $11 million" generating, a body might wonder? Is it greater or lesser than $4.5-million?

And what's this now:

In the past six years, from 2004 to 2009, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has invested more than $24 million to film production activity which, in turn, has enabled approximately $67 million to be leveraged from other public and private sources.

That is to say... more than a quarter of the money going into the industry is from the provincial public treasury. And, of the 74% that is not provincial public money, a curiously vague amount ("leveraged from other public... sources") is also from the public purse of other, unspecified, jurisdictions.

Oh, look! A pie chart!

Have you heard...

...about our equity investment in Republic of Doyle?

No worries: here's the Premier — he'll attend premieres but not Premiers' meetings — to remind you abour our equity investment in Republic of Doyle.

Note how the guy who long yearned to be Minister of Culture plays second fiddle in what would otherwise have been his own comms-shop's release.

Unrelenting

The nefarious Ontario city newspaper's John Doyle — or is that Dile? — notes:

Hereabouts, Hawco is seen as a kind of Laurence Olivier of the St. John's arts scene, a Renaissance man who is co-artistic director of his own theatre troupe, The Company Theatre, as well as doing movie and TV work. He was, they say here, relentless on getting financial support from the Newfoundland government and getting Republic of Doyle made in St. John's.

The Newfoundland government [sic], in return, has been equally relentless, even before the first episode airs, in making sure that the Laurence Oliver of Newfoundland, and everyone else, don't forget about their equity investment.