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Amazing Race Canada stays strong

The third season of the Insight Productions series bowed to over two million viewers on CTV on Wednesday evening.

Gallery: Canadian talent at Karlovy Vary

A selection of photos from Telefilm Canada of Canadian filmmakers at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

BravoFACTUAL awards $563K across 12 projects

Nadine Pequeneza’s How to Recruit a Terrorist is among the projects selected to receive BravoFACTUAL funding from BravoFACT. (Pequeneza pictured.)

Team Canada scores big viewers

Sunday night’s FIFA Women’s World Cup game was watched by a record average 2.8 million viewers.

Rogers defends OMNI cuts to MPs

Keith Pelley reacted to MP’s concerns about OMNI’s ethnic-language newscasts during a parliamentary hearing Wednesday.

HuffPost Live channel cleared by CRTC

The proposed channel would expand the HuffPo brand into the linear TV space.

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Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films May 29, 2015 to June 4, 2015

Aurelie laflamme: les pieds sur terre is the top Canadian film for the week of May 29 to June 4, with La passion d’Augustine in second place.

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Hot Sheet: Top 10 films May 29, 2015 to June 4, 2015

San Andreas tops the Canadian box office for the week of May 29 to June 4, followed by Mad Max: Fury Road.

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Playback’s 5 to Watch: nominations now open

We’re looking for the hottest talent in the Canadian screen production industry – and we need you to help us find it.

The 2014 specialty run-down: CRTC

Subscription revenues rose in 2014, while national advertising dipped, according to the CRTC’s report on specialty channel performance in Canada.

Upfronts 2015: City builds a man cave for fall

The Rogers Media net is continuing to target a male audience with new dramas and comedies, while Sunnyside is renewed for mid-season.

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Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs May 4, 2015 to May 10, 2015

Fifty Shades of Grey tops the DVD chart for the week of May 4 to May 10, followed by Paddington.