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Three join Defying Gravity

Canucks Laura Harris (Dead Like Me, 24) and Peter Howitt (Laws of Attraction, Sliding Doors) have joined the cast…

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Lee helms Carnivore

CBC Radio host and former MuchMusic VJ Sook-Yin Lee has embarked on her directorial debut…

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Credit rating slips at Canwest

An advertising slump and a high debt burden has triggered a downgrade of Canwest Media’s…

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CTV lays off 105

Network on Thursday cut jobs at its Toronto operations…

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Deal for Dealership

Canwest has ordered another pilot, giving the green light to producers Virginia Thompson and Robert de Lint…

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Equinoxe re-teams with Kigali author

Léa Pool is behind the camera on the first-ever Canada/Luxembourg coproduction, Une belle mort

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Cruickshank returns to print

Career newspaperman John Cruickshank is to bolt from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp….

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Gross, Fichman go with Gunless

The hyphenate hero of the number one Canadian movie and its producer are teaming up again…

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Moysey shuffled at Canwest

Canwest Global Communications has folded its broadcast digital media assets in with its newspaper…

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Quebec comics star in Peepers

A band of voyeurs who rove the rooftops of Montreal peering through windows is the basis…

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Producer of the Year: Anne Marie La Traverse & Bill Mustos

The long road to success for Flashpoint was about finding the right story idea and script for the Canadian ensemble cop drama, and then getting CTV and CBS to bite.

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The Establishing Shot: Broadcasters and BDUs vie for digital supremacy

The tension between broadcasters and the cable and satellite providers has been bubbling in the digital age, and the CRTC’s recently unveiled new policies have turned up the heat even further. And those media companies that will come out strongest are likely those with a hand in both pies.