
In 1976, Schuyler met Kit Hood, an editor of television commercials, when she needed help from an experienced editor to save the "muddled footage" of one of her projects. She first attracted media attention when the NBC in the United States aired clips of Between Two Worlds out of context to support a news story about race relations in Toronto. Schuyler's first film was a documentary named Between Two Worlds. As a teacher, Schuyler began creating short films, which eventually became the inspiration for Degrassi. After earning her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1974, where she studied film courses, Schuyler became a school teacher and taught for four years at Earl Grey Senior Public School in Toronto's east end. The daughter of Jack and Joyce Bawcutt, Schuyler immigrated with her family to Canada in the late 1950s and was raised in Paris, Ontario. In 1994, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, and in 2012, she was made a Member of the Order of Ontario. Schuyler has received multiple awards and accolades for her work. Schuyler also created Instant Star, another commercially successful Epitome production.
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In 1979, Schuyler purchased the rights to adapt the Kay Chorao book Ida Makes A Movie into a film, of which ultimately became the genesis of Degrassi. As a school teacher, she began creating short films, and formed a creative partnership with television commercial editor Kit Hood. (with Kit Hood), and of Epitome Pictures (with Stephen Stohn), the production companies involved with the franchise over its 40-year-long history respectively.īorn in London, Schuyler immigrated to Canada with her family in the 1950s. She is a co-founder of Playing With Time, Inc.
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She is best known for being the co-creator and producer of the Degrassi teen drama franchise, which has spanned five series over four decades.

Although lynchings were often thought to be responses to rape claims, statistics published by PBS in connection with its documentary The Murder of Emmett Till show that from 1880 to 1930, most lynching victims were “political activists, labor organizers or black men and women who violated white expectations of black deference, and were deemed ‘uppity’ or ‘insolent.Linda Schuyler, CM OOnt ( / ˈ s k aɪ l ə r/ née Bawcutt born February 12, 1948) is a Canadian television producer. Because if she knew what she was saying, that means she intentionally used the language of the racists of yesteryear who violently targeted black people deemed to be “uppity” for doing nothing more than asserting their defiance and opposition to the status quo of disenfranchisement, poverty, and racism. Being respectful of the histories of others would be one of those things, so l et’s hope that McLaughlin was merely broadcasting her own ignorance.

I understand that having the audacity to decline an invitation from the queen -and Markle was invited to be part of the summit, Hannity said -is quite the faux pas to some, but I would expect that there are things that are more important than impropriety. She's-she's one of those liberal elitists, you know?”


” McLaughlin interjected, “Yeah, she's very uppity. I didn't like that Meghan didn't even get on the phone as she was in Canada, and she was invited to be a part of that meeting. Hannity started the analysis of Markle: “ What I didn't like in this whole thing-I'll say one thing I didn't like. McLaughlin found the decision so disrespectful that she felt the need to use a word that triggers memories of decades of racial violence and lynchings to describe the Duchess of Sussex. Heavens forbid Markle abstain from the very duties she said she would be abstaining from in her and Prince Harry’s decision to step back from their official roles within the royal family.
