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• During the event, former First Lady of the United States Laura Bush also echoed her support in a video address.
• Your role right now, as you continue to grow up and go to school, is to learn.
• One way to do this is through a topic called civics, and sometimes civics can be a little complicated to explain.
• The series for Nickelodeon is overseen by Eryk Casemiro, Executive Vice President, Nickelodeon Animation, Global Series Content.

• Retail sales of Paw Patrol merchandise have surpassed US$14 billion.
• Yet, there is little awareness here in Canada of the country’s global reach in children’s television content production.

Near and dear to our hearts

• Many of these shows are near and dear to our hearts and we hold deep nostalgia for them.
• Children’s media is massively under-researched or ignored in scholarship about Canadian cultural industries, and similarly in overlapping areas like Canadian media studies, media history, children’s studies or even Canadian children’s history.

Redefining values and representation

• Passe-Partout originally ran between 1977-92, featuring playful human characters and a family of puppets that are still cherished today.
• These are featured alongside documentary film clips of Elders and local artists teaching Inuktitut and Inuit culture.
• In the past 70 years, many of these aforementioned shows have contributed significantly to redefining national values and symbols and contributed to a fuller picture of cultural and racialized diversity.
• But as research from the Children’s Media Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University indicates, there is still a ways to go with representing children across the country.

Canada as hub

• Canada is also an international hub for the children’s entertainment industry.
• For example, the children’s media program at Centennial College is world-renowned, as is Sheridan College’s animation program.
• And Kidscreen — the top trade publication for the global children’s entertainment industry — is produced in Toronto, demonstrating the depth of cultural capital here.

Children’s media and policy, funding decisions

• Canadian children’s television has shaped children’s media around the world and has had a big impact on how media should tell stories to child audiences.
• For example, much of Nickelodeon’s early programming was Canadian children’s TV often produced by local TV stations.
• Without an appreciation for Canada’s long history of children’s media production, the danger exists that the industry won’t be prioritized in policy decisions or in funding opportunities.

Museum exhibits: telling the stories

• If you are looking for something to do this summer, there are two museum exhibits that rectify this oversight in unknown stories of Canadian children’s media.
• The Canadian Museum of History, in Ottawa-Gatineau, is currently holding a special exhibit called From Pepinot to Paw Patrol — Television of our Childhoods, until Sept. 1, 2023, covering 70 years of Canadian children’s TV from coast to coast to coast.
• Featuring 100 shows and 85 artifacts, the exhibit aims to create an intergenerational and intercultural experience for the whole family.

• HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Comedy superstar Adam Sandler will receive the first-ever King of Comedy Award during the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2023, live on Saturday, March 4, at 7 p.m. (ET/PT).
• Said Sandler, "I've had so many great times at this fantastic awards extravaganza and I'll always be excited to hang with da kiddies!!
• He has also won eight People's Choice Awards, five MTV Movie Awards and a Gotham Award for his work as Stanley Sugerman in Netflix's Hustle.
• Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2023 is sponsored by LUNCHABLES with 100% Juice®, Nintendo Switch, and Olive Garden®.

• Said Burleson, "Hosting NFL Slimetime is always a blast, and I can't wait to bring that same energy and Slime as co-host of the iconic Kids' Choice Awards!
• Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2023 will continue to put the fans in control as they enter a magical surreal world.
• Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2023 will simulcast across Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nicktoons, the Nick Jr. channel, TVLand, CMT and MTV2.
• Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2023 is sponsored by LUNCHABLES with 100% Juice®, Nintendo Switch, and Olive Garden®.