Definitions

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  • noun informal, Canada, broadcasting Canadian content, in the context of Canadian regulations setting minimum quotas of Canadian content for Canadian radio and television broadcasters.

Etymologies

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Abbreviation of Canadian + content.

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Examples

  • In Canada there is a thing called CanCon, regulated levels of "Canadian music" - identified according to a bureaucractic formula - that must be played on the radio.

    ev'rybody's work-in' for the week-end 2004

  • On a tour of North America, the minister has met musicians and politicians who have told him about what is known as CanCon, a Canadian content law that guarantees more than a third of the music played on radio is of Canadian extraction.

    unknown title 2009

  • On a tour of North America, the minister has met musicians and politicians who have told him about what is known as CanCon, a Canadian content law that guarantees more than a third of the music played on radio is of Canadian extraction.

    unknown title 2009

  • On a tour of North America, the minister has met musicians and politicians who have told him about what is known as CanCon, a Canadian content law that guarantees more than a third of the music played on radio is of Canadian extraction.

    unknown title 2009

  • On a tour of North America, the minister has met musicians and politicians who have told him about what is known as CanCon, a Canadian content law that guarantees more than a third of the music played on radio is of Canadian extraction.

    unknown title 2009

  • On a tour of North America, the minister has met musicians and politicians who have told him about what is known as CanCon, a Canadian content law that guarantees more than a third of the music played on radio is of Canadian extraction.

    unknown title 2009

  • On a tour of North America, the minister has met musicians and politicians who have told him about what is known as CanCon, a Canadian content law that guarantees more than a third of the music played on radio is of Canadian extraction.

    unknown title 2009

  • Here in Canada, our "CanCon" culture mavens are threatening to apply their stupid Canadian-culture-first policy to the internet.

    CIO Today 2010

  • Here in Canada, our "CanCon" culture mavens are threatening to apply their stupid Canadian-culture-first policy to the internet.

    Top Tech News 2010

  • Here in Canada, our "CanCon" culture mavens are threatening to apply their stupid Canadian-culture-first policy to the internet.

    Top Tech News 2010

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