Venture

When Venture first launched in 1985, one stated goal was to be a TV version of the Wall Street Journal's front page: lively, lucid and wide-ranging. It's about business, but it's not just for businessmen and businesswomen. Venture covered all the aspects of the economy in Canada and beyond: prices, profits, personnel, innovation and ideas as they affect any business. From farms to fishing boats, boardrooms to barbershops, Venture was about the business of making a living. CBC cancelled Venture in 2007, after an amazing 22 seasons on the air. Twenty-three years after Venture's debut, the CBC Digital Archives focuses on the show's first season, under host Patrick Watson.

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Canadian made?

Broadcast Date: June 28, 1992

You would think that Canadian products are made in Canada, but according to this 1992 report from Venture, you have to check the label. In this clip, TVs, major appliances and automobiles are reviewed for their Canadian content.

Canadian made?

• The Canadian Manufacturers Association (CMA) was originally established in 1871 as the Ontario Manufacturers Association. The name was changed six years later.

• In 1943, the Canadian Exporters Association (CEA) was formed. The CMA and CEA merged in 1996.

• The Toronto Star reported that the intention of the federal government's "Canada: Buy Into It" campaign was to stop cross-border shopping into the United States.

• The federal campaign was launched during the 1992 Constitutional referendum, causing sovereigntists to cry foul over "Canada: Buy Into It" billboards placed in Montreal.

Canadian made?

Medium: Television

Program: Venture

Broadcast Date: June 28, 1992

Guest(s): John Seymour, Stephen Van Houten

Host: Robert Scully

Duration: 5:00

Last updated:
Feb. 13, 2009

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