Cold Lake, AB – Vancouver-based Paperny Films will begin its 35-week-long production of Jetstream, an 8 x 60 for Discovery Channel Canada, on April 3.

Toronto – Montreal’s Muse Entertainment is partnering with Toronto production house Back Alley Film Productions on two television projects.

Alberta producer Tom Cox wasn’t entirely convinced about the prospects for the feature drama Brokeback Mountain when director Ang Lee was filming it in the province, but he did know he was part of something special.

The Quebec box-office hit C.R.A.Z.Y. leads the pack with a dozen nominations and will face off against Water, with nine, and It’s All Gone Pete Tong, with eight, in categories including best picture and best director at the 2006 Genie Awards.

The battle for Canada’s election night eyeballs between CTV and CBC was almost as tightly contested as the one between incoming prime minister Stephen Harper and the outgoing Paul Martin. In the case of the former, CTV emerged victorious on Jan. 23, although some interesting subplots materialized over the five-hour broadcasts.

Vancouver: One of Glen Morgan’s main objectives with his new horror film, Black Christmas, is to please Bob Clark.

Vancouver – A Night at the Museum from 1492 Pictures is shooting in Vancouver through April. The 20th Century Fox comedy, about a night watchman who accidentally unleashes an ancient curse, is directed by Shawn Levy (The Pink Panther), with Levy, Chris Columbus (Rent) and Michael Barnathan (Fantastic Four) producing. Tom Hammel (The Day After Tomorrow) and Ira Shuman (Just Married) are the executive producers. It stars Ben Stiller and film vets Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney, and should hit theaters in November.

Vancouver – The Revolution Studios thriller Wind Chill, about students who are terrorized by ghosts on a desolate stretch of highway, began shooting in Vancouver on Feb. 1. The Blue Print Pictures/Section Eight production is directed by Gregory Jacobs (Criminal) from a script by Steven Katz (Shadow of the Vampire) and Joe Gangemi.

Vancouver – Ryan Reynolds is back in Vancouver shooting the comedy Chaos Theory, about a man whose life degenerates into personal chaos, for Warner Independent Pictures and prodco Castle Rock Entertainment. Marcos Siega (Pretty Persuasion) is helming from Dan Taplitz’s (WW3) script.

Calgary – Alberta ski destinations Sunshine Village and Fortress Mountain are standing in for Kilimanjaro and Everest on the new A&E MOW Touch the Top of the World: The Erik Weihenmayer Story, now halfway through shooting.

Montreal – Galafilm heads into post-production this month on one of Discovery Channel Canada’s largest original productions to date, Mars Rising. The $5-million-plus 6 x 60 doc series is being completely financed by Discovery and explores ongoing plans to put a human on the red planet.

The digital revolution will factor heavily into this year’s KidScreen Summit, as top experts and executives in kids programming and marketing converge on the Big Apple for the conference’s seventh edition. This year’s summit will run at the New York Hilton, Feb. 8-10.