If the CRTC doesn’t do something fast to get Canadian content on this country’s airwaves, the homegrown film and TV industry will continue its decline, says the Writers Guild of Canada.

Regina: Slings & Arrows picked up the most hardware, but CBC emerged the biggest winner at the 22nd annual Gemini Awards gala, held Sunday, Oct. 28 in Regina.

Vancouver: It started out as a cool place, literally, to showcase indie films. But heading into its seventh run, the Whistler Film Festival has evolved into more than just ‘see and ski.’ It’s earning a rep as the place to be, to meet and to deal.

• John Lewis is now international VP of IATSE, stepping up from his post as director of Canadian affairs to take over for the recently resigned Mimi Wolch.

• Maple Pictures and Gold Circle Films have inked a multi-year output deal. The deal begins with the romantic comedy Chilled in Miami, starring Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr., and the thriller The New Daughter, starring Kevin Costner.

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Halifax’s Egg Films is a television, radio and print production house. Inaccurate information appeared in the Oct. 15 issue. Credit for the photo that accompanied that story, ‘Halifax’s Egg Hatches new shop,’ goes to Cindy Douglas.

There were certainly things to like about the Gemini Awards’ Regina telecast on Oct. 28, but as a vehicle to promote Canadian television, it fell short of the mark.

Jennifer Weiss and Simone Urdl are known for protecting a director’s creative control on films they produce.

Playing MindHabits’ Trainer can make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, and company execs insist their game is good for your state of mind.

Blogs are one of today’s most popular forms of online communication. Technorati, a social media search engine, currently tracks 97.7 million blogs, with more than 175,000 new ones being created daily.

The team that brought The Eleventh Hour to Canadian screens is wrapping the Toronto shoot of its CTV MOW Who Named the Knife. A fictional adaptation of the 2007 book by Linda Spalding, the $4-million two-hour drama (set to also bow on Lifetime in the States) follows the budding relationship between a woman and a female convict who she believes is wrongfully imprisoned.