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Eith two years of production under its belt, Saskatoon’s The Edge Productions’ is looking at an expanded slate for 1997….

Greenlight Communications has announced that it will focus on its core competencies in health communications and related technology and sell off its entertainment assets. Gary Howsam has resigned the office of chief executive, while retaining his seat on the board of…

Montreal: The head of a consortium applying for control of Television Quatre Saisons says a newly purposed network will narrow its mandate and ‘stay away from’ original independent drama production….

Ottawa: The Disney seminar, ‘Service: Disney Style,’ stood out from the ShowCanada itinerary by virtue of the fact that it was slick and packed. Open to attendees from outside the convention at $100 per head, participants jammed Ottawa’s Rideau Centre Cinema…

Exit May sweeps; enter l.a. screenings, the annual gold chains and crantini extravaganza which has the bulk of the Canadian private broadcasting execs huddled in California the week of May 20….

Ottawa: New film formats, new customer expectations, new frozen treats. ShowCanada ’97 delegates got a taste of it all….

Vancouver: A Canadian labor union has finally put its money where its mouth is and forged an agreement that cuts Canadian producers some slack….

Top-level industry reps invited from the cultural sectors converged in Toronto May 8-9 for the recent Culture/ Entertainment Dilemma hosted by the Canadian Journalism Foundation in Toronto, sponsored by the governments of Canada, Mexico and the u.s., with nbc, nanba and…

The onslaught of summer filmmaking workshops is just around the corner and snaring key industry names is how many of the programs intend to attract filmmakers to their crash courses on the biz….

‘Starting out back in the infancy of television I didn’t know it would come to all this,’ said amazed host Joyce Davidson Susskind, gesturing to the packed audience as she opened Women In Film and Television-Toronto’s 10th annual awards gala….