Mark Dillon

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Online channel gets ready to migrate to TV

Joe Elaschuk, the grizzly young bassist from Toronto indie band Foxfire, enters the recording studio and is asked to run through his part. He glances at the reporters and photographers scattered around the equipment-packed room.

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Toronto shops gear up for fall

It’s been a cruel, cruel summer for Toronto post shops, but the forecast calls for a sunnier fall, thanks mostly to a busy domestic TV sector.

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Music Café rocks industry crowd

Record number of decision-makers attend music meet-up, with indie acts Spiral Beach, Jets Overhead

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Let the eGames begin

Back in 2005, when CTVglobemedia and Rogers Media teamed up on a whopping US$153 million bid to beat out CBC for the rights to the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Olympic Games, the global economy was in growth mode. But times have changed. In a recent story in The Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games acknowledged current budgetary shortfalls – believed to be in the tens of millions of dollars – caused by a sharp drop in global sponsorship.

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A new beginning for King’s Endings

The final project from Allan King will not fade to black with the master documentarian’s recent passing.

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Gala: Young Victoria

Hands up anyone who imagined Jean-Marc Vallée’s follow-up to the gritty Quebec coming-of-age flick C.R.A.Z.Y. would be anything resembling the love story of a 19th century British monarch.

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A new beginning for King’s Endings

Momentum builds to complete legendary documentarian’s final grand statement

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David Cronenberg: Edgy auteur keeps eyeing new challenges

Lifetime achievement awards and hall of fame inductions often go to individuals who are slowing down and can sit back and reflect on their illustrious careers.

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Paul Barkin – Producer

After years in the trenches of indie film, Paul Barkin has been keeping some heady company of late. Take Donald Sutherland, for example.

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Nina Dobrev – Actor

It’s another case of a kid from Degrassi done good.

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Aaron Douglas – Actor

Aaron Douglas is not your typical leading man. But then The Bridge is not your typical cop show.

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Allan Hawco – Writer/Producer/Actor

Forget what you’ve heard – Allan Hawco is the CBC’s real triple sensation.