Patricia Bailey

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Moore reaches out in Montreal

While on a recent bridge-building mission to Quebec, Canada’s new heritage minister called arts and culture a ‘need’…

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‘We are not racist,’ says Bye-Bye duo

Although Radio-Canada continues to defend the 2008 edition of Bye-Bye, its creators Véronique Cloutier and Louis Morissette publicly apologized…

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Charges of racism follow special

Radio-Canada is on the defensive this week following criticisms that its annual Bye-Bye show…

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Damnfx latest Montreal post shop to shutter

MONTREAL — Right in the middle of working on a $1-million post-production job for Red Cliff: Part II, the sequel to John Woo’s third-century Chinese epic Red Cliff: Part I, post shop damnfx has officially shut its doors, leaving a trail of unemployed workers.

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Q&A: Michel Arpin reflects on critical year and road ahead

There was an unprecedented flurry of activity in Gatineau, QC over the past 12 months, what with the CRTC’s approval of the Canwest Global takeover of Alliance Atlantis, hearings on the Canadian Television Fund and the BDUs, and decisions that rewrite the entire Canadian broadcasting system. The coming year looks to be no less momentous, with broadcasters up for licence renewals, terms of trade to be ironed out between producers and casters, and the regulatory role in new media needing to be defined.

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CRTC rolls into digital age

How challenging is it to be a broadcast regulator in the digital age?

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Board going back to school

The National Film Board wants to be the go-to audiovisual reference for Canadian teachers…

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EyeSteel on a roll

MONTREAL: In an era of infotainment, the producers of the award-winning Up the Yangtze have figured out how to finance social-issue auteur docs: they call it the do-it-yourself model.

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Buffalo Gal wraps casino series

Cashing In – a soapy dramatic comedy set to air in the new year on APTN and Global – might be a North American first, a show about Canada’s well-heeled aboriginal elite.

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New perspective at queer festival

A master class led by bad boy Bruce LaBruce, and docs about Patti Smith and Vanity Fair photographer Annie Leibovitz…

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Four jobs eliminated at NFB

The new director general of the NFB’s French program Monique Simard says she wants to ‘put the most money possible…

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Quebec will pull out of Telefilm, says PQ

The Parti Québécois will demand that Quebec be allowed to pull out of federal cultural agencies…