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TORONTO, January 15, 2013: ichannel’s flagship political affairs series #FAQMP is among the first-ever nominees for the new Canadian Screen Awards.

The hour-long weekly program has earned a nomination in the category of Best Cross-Platform Project – Non-Fiction. This is the first time an ichannel original production has received an award nomination from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Continue Reading

Joyce Murray overtook NDP Toronto MP Dan Harris early in the week but it was never a run away. The two MPs went vote for vote, rallying hundreds of their supporters, until Joyce pulled ahead on the last day. Final count was 1475 for Dan Harris  and 1672 for Ms Murray. She has won her prize and that is answering your eager questions.  But what to ask her? Well… Continue Reading

Last month, we announced our new host, Kevin O’Keefe. Kevin has 20 years of experience as an investigative journalist and producer of current affairs programming. #FAQMP has filmed the first three episodes with Kevin as host and we think he’s doing a bang-up job. What is his strategy in a political interview? He took a few moments to tell us and explain how #FAQMP connects Canadians with Ottawa.

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We’ve been promising to make this announcement for a while and the time has finally come!!! The new host of #FAQMP is Kevin O’Keefe.

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NEW HOST ANNOUNCEMENT

We are proud to announce that the new host of #FAQMP is Kevin O’Keefe. Read his bio and watch Kevin explain how he wants to get you involved in season 2.

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We know we’ve kept you waiting all summer but we’re finally ready to make the official announcement – WE”RE COMING BACK!!!!!

It’s been an exceptionally busy summer for us here at #FAQMP. If you’ve caught any of my spotty tweets (@PamFAQMP)  over the past two months you know that we’ve been working on funding applications. The timelines were really tight but somehow we made it through. Along with #FAQMP we have been working on a documentary on the Health Care system and uninsured people in Canada. And there’s a new comedy series starting this fall on ichannel that we’ve developed. It will feature Canadian stand up comics that explore important political and social issues. We hope our #FAQMP audience will love the documentary and new series…and why wouldn’t you We’re still working on those websites right now, but don’t worry, I’m sure I will be pestering all of you with details about them soon.

How can we do all this you ask? Well we’re bringing a bunch of new people on board and will be introducing them to you soon – including a new host! We’ll all miss Karyn but we’re really proud of her (and hopefully her of us) and we’re sure you’ll love our new host too.

So without further ado our first voting block of the season will be up tomorrow. Just in case you’ve forgotten how much fun we had together last year here’s a little reminder!

Get ready to rally your friends to start voting for the next MP you want to see on the show…we really can’t do it without YOU!!!

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Well you hear it all the time – those fast talking politicians. So we decided to put that stereotype to the test with our FAQFIRE round. The challenge: answer 15 questions in less than a minute. Either our challenge is too tough or the saying is wrong because only 50 % of our guests have managed to win. It’s been a lot of fun watching MP’s sweat it out trying to win our now famous #FAQMP mug.

Some of you have asked us to post the rapid question rounds separately  - shout out to @rikimae who told us it was her favorite part of the show! You asked, so that’s just what we’ve done. In honour of this release we thought we’d ask you which round was your favorite in our poll this week. Of course we can’t put up 24 pictures so we had to pick our top 5 for the poll and our selections are: Continue Reading

Yes this is the most beautiful sunset ever!

There are some things that I like to think are universal in this world:

- everyone secretly (or openly in my case) enjoys singing at the top of their lungs in the car to cheesy love songs

- everyone has tripped over absolutely nothing when no one else was around and felt embarrassed – why? Who knows? It just happens.

- each of us have seen a sunset and declared it the most beautiful sunset ever! no debating it – this one was THE BEST!

- everyone secretly watches some horrible reality show – you may deny it to your friends but you know you love it! Yes I watch The Bachelor – so what if it’s the worst show on television?

- everyone has played silly games growing up like Spin the Bottle, Truth or Dare – and sat around with friends pondering the really big questions in life: Why do I exist? What happens when you reach the end of the universe? If you were stranded on a deserted island what’s the one album you would want with you? (never mind that you would have nothing to play it on and there would be no electricity…my pick is David Bowie’s Changes – solid from beginning to end, although at different times in my life this choice has changed)

Which brings us to this week’s poll question: If you could have one Prime Minister attend your dinner party who would you pick? Yes it’s a variation on the more traditional – if you could meet anybody alive or dead who would you pick (and no you can’t say Jesus…everybody says Jesus). Karyn and I debated the options and I’m embarrassed to admit that there were some Prime Ministers I had never heard of (The Right honorable Sir Charles Tupper – sorry dude never heard of you, but you were in office for just over 2 months in 1896). Continue Reading

My family grew up around the corner from our elementary school, which meant we went home for lunch. Mom would have lunch on the table…most days it was a peanut butter and jam sandwich. The best part of lunch hour was getting to watch a little TV in the middle of the day. We watched Leave It To Beaver. June Cleaver played the perfect housewife – always dressed up, the house was always neat and tidy, and I don’t remember any yelling on the show. Even with the “perfect” mom that crazy Beaver was always getting into trouble. My favorite episode was the one where Beaver’s head was stuck in the fence. Continue Reading

So what do you do when an MP has to reschedule an interview at the last minute and you have a full crew sitting around with nothing to do? Put them to work of course! The task was simple – each person had to come up with their own FAQFIRE questions and then we would test each other. Some of the questions they came up with were pretty interesting:

-What’s the one thing you’d keep for the zombie apocalypse?

-What song do you sing in the shower?

-Team Edward, or team Jacob? Continue Reading