Shaun Donnelly’s Real Productions received the OK from the CRTC on Wednesday to operate a digital cable channel – called Northern Peaks – that is billed as “Canada’s first adult video channel programming significant Canadian content.”

“There seems to be quite a market for Canadian adult content right now and of course there isn’t a lot of supply,” Donnelly said Thursday from the set of a show he is shooting for Playboy TV outside of Edmonton.

Real Productions, based in the Edmonton suburb of Sherwood Park, says it owns the largest library of Canadian made pornography at more than 200 titles.

According to the conditions of the licence, Northern Peaks must devote 50 per cent of its broadcast time to Canadian productions.
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He said there is a huge unfulfilled market in Canada for local porn.

So how, exactly, is Canadian porn different from other porn? Other than perhaps toys made of ice and lots of polar bear skin rugs, do they do it differently up North?

“I’ve always found there’s a real turn-on to watching and knowing it’s people you could run into in the grocery store,” he said.
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Proposed series in the application to the CRTC include one shot entirely on location at a small adult video store in Kamloops, B. C., and one in which “Canada’s sexiest thirtysomethings show off their skills in a series that proves Canada is cougar country.”