Jim Sherry has stepped down as co-president of Maple Pictures, going back to a consulting position with the Toronto distributor after less than a year.

+ The NFB has signed an airline distribution deal with Skeye Inflight Entertainment, providing its catalogue to airlines operating outside Canada. The agreement will kick off with airline-friendly fare, such as docs, Oscar winners and shorts.

Two conventional stations are closing while another has found a white knight in new arrival Bluepoint – which softens the blow and proves once again that things are never as hopeless as they seem, unless you work at the E! stations in Victoria or Red Deer. The forecast is also growing dark for documentary-makers, with the shuttering of both The Lens and Wild Docs – expect lots of phone calls, Passionate Eye – and for Canadiana, which will go unrepresented at next month’s opener of TIFF.

Canada has emerged as a major battleground in the contentious U.S.-led global campaign against intellectual property piracy. But, given the number of people with money at stake and the potentially far-reaching economic, political, and social implications of the issues in question, it’s often hard to tell fact from fiction. It’s equally difficult to sort out the array of current and proposed Canadian, U.S., and international laws when it comes to intellectual property piracy.

Canwest Global Communications is set to close two E!-branded local TV stations and rebrand another as a Global Television affiliate as the broadcaster finally sheds its secondary free, over-the-air network.

Young director and leading man return to festival with comedy Up in the Air

Copro and IRA drama bows on six screens, to be followed by U.S. run

Veteran voice agent and roster to bolster Toronto agency

Canwest is closing E! stations in Victoria and Red Deer this fall and rebranding Kelowna station as a Global affiliate

Ambition Talent sends actor to Fox series. McAuliffe to write for Fallon

Quebec’s campaign to push culture to the top of the Canadian political agenda – again – has begun. And this time the talk might get constitutional.

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