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UDA, APFTQ reach deal

Quebec actors and producers have inked a new collective agreement, ending six months of recently heated talks

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SODEC okays Polytechnique

Controversial retelling of 1989 Montreal massacre among eight films greenlit by Quebec agency

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Quebecor in middle of actor union dispute

The parent of TVA baffles the APFTQ by publicly throwing its support behind performers in the current round of Quebec labor talks

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Les Boys face off on small screen

Quebec’s venerable hockey film franchise makes the jump to a TV series, because fans just can’t get enough

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Tony Roman 1942-2007

The Quebec singer and producer gave up a successful music career to venture into the film world, coming up with the idea for the hit comedy Camping Sauvage

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Quebec exhibitors fete Girard, Loewy

The province’s cinema owners have handed prizes to thesp Rémy Girard and distrib Victor Loewy for helping to build the local industry

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Girard plays gangster in Binamé’s Rivard

MONTREAL: What do Jack Ruby, former federal justice minister Guy Favreau, and Cuban military leader Fulgencio Batista have in common? They were all connected with Lucien Rivard, a Montreal-born drug smuggler with international crime connections whose life story is featured in the French-language political thriller Rivard, scheduled to wrap shooting in Montreal June 9.

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Drop Citytvs, keep A-Channels, says CRTC

Cheers greet ‘yes and no’ decision on CHUM buyout, as feds order CGM to drop five Citytv stations; preserves balance of power and ‘two-stick’ policy, say insiders

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Radio-Canada puts $12 million into features

The latest investment in French-language films by the network will aid development, production and promotion on its various platforms, says exec Sylvain Lafrance. But will they also boost auteur titles?

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Shaw attacks CTF again

CTF chair says he’s ‘perplexed and surprised’ following angry letter from Alberta cable boss Jim Shaw

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Strike measures possible, say actors

The Union des artistes is threatening to disrupt movie and TV shoots in Quebec if it is unable to work out an agreement with the APFTQ by July 1

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Let viewers decide, says CRTC chair

CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein sees the commission’s recent move to phase out ad time restrictions on conventional broadcasters as a matter of letting viewers decide.