Quebecor chief to lead talk about digital content at Toronto conference, which brings together advertisers, broadcasters and new media

Comme une flamme, a look back on student strikes that rocked Quebec in 2005, pairs on-a-roll producer Pierre Even with auteur-esque Sébastien Rose

Sheffield documentary fest hands $10,500 copro pact to interactive effort about the global sex trade, from New Zealand’s Virginia Heath

Departure of leading lady Rachel Blanchard darkens $8-million Bonny Boys, the biggest picture ever to land in the province. Producers at Dream Street look to restart next year in Scotland

Deal with educational outfit The Mad Science Group will see companies develop a series and line of products aimed at preteens

And Canuck marketers are expected to be especially bullish about digital media, more than doubling 2007’s $1.4-billion spend

Documentaries, once the hot genre for the Toronto festival, take a back seat this year to comedies and dramas, starting with Justin Lin’s spoof Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee

Reports of this season’s cancellation were premature, say U.S. and Canadian networks. Action series will be back after WGA strike

That Leonard Asper, what cheek. To hear him tell it, Global Television is, well…His own words on the CanWest year-end conference call say it best. ‘We really are in a dead heat with the CTV group across the key demographics in the key markets,’ he bragged.

While the loonie’s rapid rise has caused instability across the Canadian film and TV industry, limiting U.S. location shoots and post-production contracts, a bright spot has emerged on the cloudy horizon, with price breaks starting to appear in post and production gear.

After a highly publicized candidate search, the government has finally announced its pick: lawyer and former sports commentator Hubert T. Lacroix will fill what may be Canada’s most thankless high-level public-sector job, running CBC and Radio-Canada.

Lawyer and part-time sportscaster Hubért Lacroix has been tapped by