Marise Strauss

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Releases roundup: Mother moves to English Canada

Xavier Dolan’s teen angst opus starts small in Toronto. Alliance’s looks to edge out Maple’s spy thriller

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CTV takes Undercover Boss

New reality gets plum post-Super Bowl spot for series premiere

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Big jump for Grammys

Music fete grows audiences by 63% for Sunday’s telecast. Love Letters struggles on CBC

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Barker misses third Oscar nod

Winnipeg director’s animated short Runaway will not be competing for a golden statue this year

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Olympic boost for Hiccups, Dan

New comedies from Butt and Ewanuick to bow after close of Winter Olympics on CTV. The Bridge to follow on Fridays

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Maslany wins Sundance prize

Saskatchewan native takes special jury award for breakout role in Grown Up Movie Star

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Docmakers score $45,000 from NFB, TVO

Calling Card program sends newspaper doc to View From Here, suicide survivors to the web

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Slamdance cheers Wild Hunt, Snow

Franchi’s medieval saga nabs audience prize, while Michaud honored with grand jury award

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Newton-John singing for McGowan musical

Follow-up to One Week casts Grease star as hockey mom. Songwriter Marc Jordan, Hawksley Workman also to appear

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Releases roundup: Grown Up stays small

Acclaim from Sundance notwithstanding, Mongrel eases Adriana Maggs’ film onto one Toronto screen

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Maple turns to Evil

Hillbilly horror-comedy Tucker and Dale vs. Evil closes deals for overseas and at home at Sundance

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Haiti specials raise $40 million

Joint effort by the big three networks hailed a success. Over 2.4 million tune in, leading into U.S. telethon