Dissatisfied with the cftpa’s inability to take a position on a proposal to scrap the foreign tax credit and buoyed by its own successful Ottawa lobby to stave off overtaxing foreign actors, Canada’s usually inconspicuous service production sector has become politicized….

As the paperwork on ctv’s NetStar purchase winds towards the Competition Bureau, industry speculation around the particulars of the deal continues….

Heritage Canada is considering reducing instead of scrapping the federal production services tax credit, a source close to the Feature Film Policy Review says….

Richard Stursberg has resigned as president of the Canadian Cable Television Association to join dth provider Star Choice as president and ceo….

Reports on the death of film tax shelters in Canada have been greatly exaggerated….

With the ‘Tribe/Beach’ 7Up campaign, bbdo, Toronto, created a pair of straightforward, and some would say, humorous stories translated very watchably onto the screen by some a-team talent in Canada….

Montreal: Behaviour Communications chairman Richard Szalwinski says first-quarter results in ’99 ‘indicate this company’s filmed entertainment activities can generate profits, with adequate management focus.’…

Whether you liked it or not, the ‘Beach’ installment of the 7Up campaign tended to linger in the old noodle; possessing something that drew you in and made you watch every time it appeared on-screen. For some, that hook was bikini…

Montreal: Cinar Corporation president and co-ceo Ron Weinberg and vp and cfo Hasanain Panju are in the midst of a u.s., Canada, European road show as the company returns to the market with a new issue of seven million limited voting…

Montreal: Telefilm Canada committed just over $25.3 million in 55 new Canadian film, television and multimedia projects in the period Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1998. The total investment by the federal funding agency since April 1 is $99.2 million….

For the creators of the Air Canada ‘Defy’ spot, the music mandate was simple; find a sound that was quintessentially Canadian yet existed outside the parameters of the two language solitudes and spoke to the entire world….

Local producers are awaiting answers on the future of their industry as a task force has completed a report on the status of Film New Brunswick and submitted it to the provincial government….