Winnipeg: Regina-based producer Partners In Motion, parent company of Harmony Entertainment, has merged a part of its operations with multimedia and Internet production firm Digital Wizards Ontario….

The holidays may be over, but if it’s January in Canada, ’tis the season to talk funding, and news from Rogers Communications will further build the buzz….

In the Jan. 10 p. 1 story ‘Telepost merger collapses,’ Vancouver’s Prospero Imaging and not Finale Post Production did the visual effects in Magician’s House. Finale oversaw film transfer for the Forefront Entertainment production….

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Vancouver: Lions Gate Entertainment’s recent us$33-million ($48 million) cash infusion from investors such as of SBS Broadcasting, Tele-Munchen and Paul Allen’s Vulcan Ventures has lit a fire under one the Vancouver company’s newest divisions….

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* Bob Culbert, a 29-year cbc veteran and most recently the pubcaster’s exec director, news, current affairs and Newsworld, has joined ctv as commissioner of documentaries. 10. Culbert is responsible for selecting docs for the network’s varied doc windows, including the…

Montreal: TVA Group has expanded its cross-media content assets with the acquisition of Trustar, Quebec’s largest magazine publisher….

Montreal: Behaviour Communications and Icestorm Digital have terminated their August ’99 agreement providing for Icestorm’s 100% acquisition of Behaviour Digital Studio. The $500,000 deal was slated to close Sept. 20….

New Brunswick’s Aliant, the result of a merger of Atlantic Canada’s telecommunications holding companies, is launching an interactive television service delivered commercially by member company NBTel….

Shooting opened Jan. 14 on the new Pierre Falardeau movie 15 Fevrier 1839, a dramatization of events following the 1837 rebellion in Lower Canada….

Montreal: Cinar Corp. has settled a lawsuit filed last year in the u.s. federal court by The Jim Henson Company….