WNYO, an independent Buffalo, n.y. television station, has its sights set on a coveted spot in the Southern Ontario and Toronto market via a cable discretionary tier placement, but is facing strong opposition from Ontario broadcasters and lobby groups….

Toronto’s Cambium Film & Video Productions plans to become a public company through a merger with Vancouver-based video wholesaler/distributor TSC Shannock….

A special meeting of Cineplex Odeon Corporation shareholders was held in late March in Toronto, where the shareholders voted overwhelmingly to approve a merger with Sony/ Loews Theatres of the u.s….

A number of well-known Canadians have been relieved of their duties on the Twentieth Century Fox feature A Cool Dry Place, which shot in and around Toronto last summer as well as posting here until the dismissals in late March. Sources…

Paul Sarossy, the dop on Alliance’s The Sweet Hereafter, picked up the best theatrical feature cinematography award at the Canadian Society of Cinematographers’ annual awards night celebration in Toronto on Saturday, March 28….

As we speak, the nation’s production company creative types are asking each other ‘Is this funny?’…

In just a few short years (six to be exact), Tattersall Sound has emerged as a leader among the country’s long-form audio post shops….

Judging by preliminary submissions to the Heritage Ministry’s Feature Film Policy Revue, industry consensus is that imposing quotas on exhibitors is an unlikely solution to what the Directors Guild of Canada dubs ‘Canada’s abysmal feature film track record.’…

A ‘realtime’ visual effects software program for the Mac is causing quite a stir among Canada’s CG animation types….

Atlantis Films has formed a new division with the creation of l.a.-based Atlantis Management, headed up by a well-connected entertainment lawyer and former Disney exec, Stephen Pomerantz….

Cineplex Odeon Films has scored an exclusive four-year output deal with the Universal Studios-owned specialty division October Films amidst the uncertainty of the Canadian distribco’s imminent ownership change….

Four-time Gemini winner Michael Maclear of Toronto-based Screenlife will executive produce a two-hour television documentary for a&e’s The History Channel based on Pierre Berton’s best-selling book Niagara – A History of the Falls….