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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Grand plans for more hydro power

Broadcast Date: March 20, 1988

The James Bay Project helps Quebec become an economic powerhouse as cheap electricity attracts foreign investment and the sale of surplus power brings in cash. By 1988 Quebec sells electricity worth $700 million a year to Canadian provinces and American states. In 1986, Premier Robert Bourassa — back in power — announces plans to launch the second phase of the project, called the Great Whale Project. This development will generate power also entirely for export.

Grand plans for more hydro power

• The Great Whale Project would dam and divert five rivers that flow into Hudson Bay, flooding over 3,500 square kilometres of land.

Grand plans for more hydro power

Medium: Television

Program: Venture

Broadcast Date: March 20, 1988

Guest(s): Robert Bourassa

Host: Robert Scully

Duration: 6:06

Last updated:
March 18, 2008

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