The F/X Training Centre division of The Kessler Group has gone into receivership. Sources say staff was given notice mid-July when payroll could not be met, and equipment was moved out of the office July 20….

Expressvu president Ted Boyle will announce Aug. 1 that the launch of the Canadian direct-to-home satellite service is being delayed until late fall….

The Cable Production Fund has made some changes to its rules in order to extend the life of its granting allocation. Since its doors opened May 8, $60 million in requests have poured in from 200 applications and $20 million has…

Montreal: The competing polarities of business and culture are always at the forefront of exchange at the annual Montreal World Film Festival Symposium, but this year’s timely agenda and lineup of heavyweight industry panelists is the most comprehensive ever….

After viewing 221 short films and 52 features, Perspective Canada co-ordinator David McIntosh and his team of programmers at the Toronto International Film Festival put together a 51-title program. Submissions from Ontario topped the list with 144 entries and Quebec followed…

* Montreal-based Cogeco Inc. is cutting 240 jobs. Cogeco Cable is hardest hit, losing 100 full-time equivalent positions by November 30. Total restructuring costs are anticipated to be $6.6 million, $2.7 of which will be incurred at Cogeco Cable….

Black day in July. It descended on a film and television industry already reeling from a barrage of recent cuts and fearing the worst is yet to come. On the 21st of the month, the Ontario Film Development Corporation and the…

In the June 5 B.C. Scene, Jamie Brown was identified as a former partner in Toronto’s Telecine Productions. Brown, a former partner in Montreal-based Telescene Communications (which does not have a Toronto office), currently runs Telescene’s London, Eng. office as well…

Vancouver: Film and television producers won’t be affected by the ongoing shareholders battle at WIC Western International Communications that resulted in both Frank Griffiths and Harold Roozen resigning as cochairmen on July 13….

Vancouver: Two live 30-minute weekday broadcasts will lead the new programming designed for the ACCESS Network, now going through a precedent-setting privatization….

* The Canadian Film and Television Production Association has a new president, Elizabeth McDonald, formerly vp programming services at the Canadian Cable Television Association….

On July 20, Canada’s Supreme Court unanimously rejected arguments that libel law inhibits writers and creators and held that the law is quite consistent with media rights to freedom of expression. It also said there is nothing wrong with the largest…