montreal: Because of changes to core eligibility rules, there’s still some Cable Production Fund money available for French-track production….

Cinar Films has launched its bilingual, animated Web site (http://www.cinar.com) with hopes of attracting interest from potential buyers….

Anne Murray’s Toronto and Nashville-based music management and publishing company, which has newly been named Balmur Entertainment, is looking to expand its tv production beyond the variety and music specials now filling most of its library. Tony Baylis, former cfo at…

Vancouver: u.s. film veteran Larry Sugar has joined the employment roster at The Vidatron Group’s entertainment division in Vancouver….

They may be pint-sized productions, but the market for short films is growing taller, says the organizer of Toronto’s Worldwide Short Film Festival….

Alliance Communications thinks it has found a gold mine in The Inheritance, a Louisa May Alcott manuscript it acquired with Cosgrove/Muerer Productions last week….

Brunico Communications is pleased to announce the appointment of Louise Leger as Playback’s new special reports editor. In addition to helming special reports, Leger is the new Ontario Scene columnist and also covers the Ontario film and tv news beat. Please…

JPL’s prime move…

Go ahead, you specialty wannabes. Step right up with your version of a dream team, the distribution package you’d like to be part of come next September’s launch. The question – what packaging arrangement do you prefer and which services would…

A number-challenged item in the May 6 mip-tv story added a digit to Paragon’s market goal, which should have read us$1 million; and it was Channel 4, not Channel 5 that was among the queue picking up the HandMade catalog. And…

Vancouver: The number of Indian productions shot in Vancouver may triple this year over last thanks to some effective location marketing in the subcontinent….

Norman Bacal is a partner in the law firm of Heenan Blaikie, based in Toronto….