Streaming services, live shows, and cable > The future of television Jerrison Oracion Senior Columnist wo years ago, various streaming services—including Shomi and Crave TV—were launched to compete with Netflix. Many people think that streaming services are the future of television and that they will replace TV. Recently, Shomi unexpectedly announced that it will be discontinued on November 30 because of the television landscape and its competitors. Because of this, the future of television is changed, and TV might be still the same as before. The discontinuation of Shomi means that half of the shows that are on TV are no longer available on streaming services, and you may have to watch season DVDs or buy the episodes on iTunes or Google Play. This means that you cannot watch NCIS, Hawaii Five-o, New Girl, Modern Family, or Family Guy on streaming services. Transparent, which is a show that a lot of people are talking about, will also be unavailable. Hopefully, Amazon Prime Video will be made available in Canada so that you can watch it. If you are a fan of The Man in the High Castle, you would finally be able to watch it on Amazon Prime Video too. There is a likely chance that Netflix and Crave vote Ee 4 feet eel TV have better offerings than Shomi, because Netflix has their original shows including Masters of None, Stranger Things, and Making a Murderer. Crave TV claims that they have all of the best shows on TV. But that is false, because they do not have Game of Thrones (which many think is the best show ever made), Veep (one of my favourite shows) and Breaking er ra i °. TT TB rer Bad. They recently announced that Showtime is now available on Crave TV in Canada, which means that you can watch Shameless the same day it airs on cable. Many of the great shows today are shown on cable channels, and most you cannot watch the same day on streaming services. Out of the four major US networks there are only two shows that are Image via bellmedia.ca ’ shown this fall that are great: This is Us and Pitch. Many shows today are like movies, and ifyou like to watch them, you have to pay more to get the channel or streaming service that airs it. In the case of Canadian channels, there are a lot of great shows this fall including Kim's Convenience, This is High School, Second Jen, and Travellers. The closest that you can get to watching a high quality show is with Masterpiece Classic and Masterpiece Mystery on PBS. PBS also airs other quality shows, including Sherlock and soon, Victoria. One of the reasons why cable TV will not go extinct is because of live shows. Cable is still great for live shows because they create excitement, and everyone gathers in the living room to witness a moment. The Super Bowl is the biggest event on TV, and it is something that has to be watched live ona TV because you don’t want the final score ruined for you before you watch it. You also cannot wait to see who will be eliminated on Dancing with the Stars and The Voice. TV is also a great platform for live musicals, including the live versions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Hairspray. TV will stay the same for a long time, because it is the place for live shows. If you like to watch high quality shows, you can still watch them on cable channels, or through streaming services. The undemocratic power of the lesser evil > A better choice still isn’t a good choice Greg Waldock Staff Writer n little more than a week, America will vote in one of the most divisive, internationally-ridiculed federal elections in recent American history: Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton. American elections are, at the best of times, a choice of the “lesser evil” between two candidates, rather than a vote for a good candidate. It’s fermented a deep cynicism in American politics. This election is one of the most shining examples of this concept. Donald Trump, the loudmouthed reality show host who spews increasingly racist and sexist things on camera every week; and Hillary Clinton, the walking embodiment of the corrupt American political institution. Many in the center, the right, and the left, including party Democrats, are endorsing Clinton only as a “lesser evil” option against the very real tyrannical threat of Trump. Business as usual, right? Wrong. If there’s one thing this year has taught us, it’s that 2016 is not business as usual at all. The greatest advantage that the people in a democracy have over their leaders is that their leaders must bow down to popular demand. Politicians must at least appear to act in the interest of the general good, and occasionally make real change, or they lose their votes and thus their power. That is not the case in this year. The pragmatic “lesser evil” mentality has reached its inevitable conclusion. There is now a candidate so bad, so internationally reviled, so humiliating to Americans, that anyone who doesn’t support him will be forced to choose anyone else, no matter how morally bankrupt and unethical. That someone is Hillary Clinton. And here is the great problem with this year: Clinton can pass any pro-corporate law, authorize any illegal surveillance, deal arms to any dictatorship in the world, and she will still win this election. As long as she isn’t as outwardly bad as the wacky orange Hitler, Clinton can get away with almost anything. That’s a line no democratic politician Image funnyism.com should be allowed to cross. Hillary Clinton has that history, too. Pulling in millions of dollars in donations from banks, acting as Secretary of State at a time when the state was illegally spying on Canadians and Americans, being publicly against gay rights until a decade ago, then suddenly flipping in the 2008 presidential election. She is the symbol of everything wrong with the American government. Don't get me wrong, though... Trump is objectively worse. The only reason he isn’t a literal fascist is because the military hates him, too. It’s gotten to the point where both candidates are so bad, so unacceptable, that Americans should not accept either of them. It’s too late to legally choose another, Bernie Sanders has stepped down, the independents are hardly better, and writing “Darth Vader” on the ballot just won't cut it. For Americans—and Canadians, if this alt-right and corrupt style of politics ever crosses the border—the only solution is widespread, organized, peaceful protests for electoral reform. It should have happened months ago, it should happen now, but by the time it does, it'll probably be too late. The best we can do now is learn from this. A politician who doesn’t need to bow to voters isn’t a democratic politician.