Last fall, a sizzle reel for a Canadian show called “Lake Shore” went viral thanks to the provocative musings of its stars, a diverse group in which each was labeled by his or her ethnicity (“The Jew,” “The Pole,” etc.). In case you missed it, the highlight was when Sibel Altug (“The Turk”) said, “I hate everybody equally. Especially the Jewish people.”

This month, producers at quietly killed the program after networks refused to pick it up, thrusting the would-be stars back into the boring grind of real life.

“What do I say to people now?” asks Salem Moussallam — billed on Lake Shore as “The Lebanese” — who runs a designer consignment shop on Queen St. W. and says he auditioned to generate publicity for his business. “It’s been really embarrassing.” [Moussallam in the reel: "You can be gay as long as you don’t get anywhere near me." --Ed.]

Others shrug it off. “I partied so much thinking that this was going to happen,” says Joey Violin (“The Italian”). “It’s probably better for me that it’s not happening — better for my health,” he says, adding he also spent too much money thinking that clubbing would generate publicity for the show.

Robyn Perza (“The Jew”) [said,] “The Jewish comment that was said — I think it might have had a lot to do with it,” she says. Networks “didn’t want to put an anti-semitic racial thing on TV,” she believes. Perza took time off from school during the year the show was in development. “It kind of screwed me over,” she says. [The Star]

Awww, poor Robyn Perza. “My thirst for instant fame by starring in a reality show built on ethnic stereotypes screwed me over.” Just a pawn in the game of heartless TV executives.

Yikes: on Saturday night, the Canadian version of “Cash Cab” finished up a night of shooting by hitting and killing a 61-year-old pedestrian.

The show had finished filming for the night and a producer was driving the mock yellow cab back to a storage area when the accident occurred, the show’s production company, Castlewood Productions Inc., told The Vancouver Sun.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim and his friends and his family. My heart also goes out to the driver of the vehicle, a member of our technical staff, who is shaken and devastated by this tragic accident, as is our entire team,” the company’s president, Andrew Burnstein, told The Sun. [NY Daily News]

No charges have been filed, but if that producer drinks on the job half as much as I do, she’s in serious trouble. And yeah, I’m assuming the producer was a woman. Whether or not that’s true, I stand by the logic that helped me jump to that conclusion. JOURNALISM!

When the second season of “Rookie Blue” debuted a few weeks ago, I expressed surprise that ABC’s soapy Canadian cop drama still existed. Well, to my greater surprise, the show has been performing well, and to my even surpriseder surprise, it’s been renewed for a third season.

In fact, season three is already in development and will shoot in Toronto later this summer.

The drama ranks No. 1 in its Thursday at 10 slot among adults 18-49. ABC says Rookie Blue is producing year-to-year gains, improving by 8% in total viewers and by 14% in adults 18-49 versus the network’s averages in the hour last summer. [EW]

I’ve never watched an episode of “Rookie Blue,” but in my defense I’m not exactly drawn to something dubbed by critics as “Grey’s Anatomy with cops.” (Actually, “Blue” supposedly makes “Grey’s” look good by comparison.) Whatever the case, shouldn’t these rookie cops have some seasoning by now? Like, if they’re three years into their jobs and still getting called “rookie,” they must really suck at policing. This is what happens when you let Canadians make TV.

The “Real Housewives” franchise is getting its first Canadian spin-off: “The Real Housewives of Vancouver” has been greenlit and will air on Canada’s Slice network. There’s no cast yet, but The Province has some suggestions:

For the wife of the sports star, how about Trevor Linden’s wife and Basquiat boutique owner Cristina Linden? The woman married to the sports franchise owner box could be ticked by signing on Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini’s wife Tali’ah. The society doyenne with a knack for charity fundraising role could belong to Army and Navy heiress Jacqui Cohen. And finally Vancouver Board of Trade chair and CEO of Century Plaza Hotel and Absolute Spa Group Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia fits the powerful career woman profile nicely.

Yeah, I don’t know who those people are, either. Nonetheless, I’m happy to hear this news, if only because it’s a “Real Housewives” show that WON’T be shown in America. The only way I could possibly be interested is if one of the cast members is a moose.

Oh man. Sluts are the BEST. This news reports details something called SlutWalk Toronto, in which 2000 women dressed like sluts to protest a police officer who said that “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” Read this blockquote while I buy a plane ticket to Canada:

“We are tired of being oppressed by slut-shaming; of being judged by our sexuality and feeling unsafe as a result,”reads the SlutWalk manifesto. “Being in charge of our sexual lives should not mean that we are opening ourselves to an expectation of violence, regardless if we participate in sex for pleasure or work. No one should equate enjoying sex with attracting sexual assault.” [via The Daily What]

Now listen. I’m 100% pro-slut. But some of the SlutWalk’s posters say things like “Society teaches ‘Don’t get raped’ rather than ‘Don’t rape’.” And that’s just not true. Society is pretty clear about its anti-rape message. Unless you go to boarding school in the Northeast.