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Dear CRTC: Stuff it with walnuts
Every month when I open my Rogers bill, I’m reminded of the Monty Python ‘Blackmail’ sketch.
Hobnobbing, with king pins
Three fingers on my right hand are significantly longer thanks to Hussain Amarshi. The president of Mongrel Media threw his second annual bowling night in Toronto last month and many in the city’s film and TV sectors came out to partake in beer and pizza and previously enjoyed shoes.
3D: How to, how much, and when?
Turns out, seeing really is believing.
Skyping with Prairie-girl-turned-Sundance-starlet Tatiana Maslany
If the medium is the message, then the message that I’m far from 24-years-old was loud and clear when I conducted a Skype interview with Sundance breakout star Tatiana Maslany. This was not my usual face-to-face, over-coffee-and-a-snack format, but my schedule was tight and my pick-of-the-month was slammed with meetings and auditions with some of the biggest wigs in Hollywood.
Why Telus refuses to throttle its clients
Telus has taken the exceptional stand as a Canadian carrier not to throttle its clients. It is one of only two Canadian telcos (the other is Videotron) that have chosen the path of net neutrality – while Bell, Rogers and Shaw practice the controversial Internet traffic control method known as throttling.
Feedback
Playback,
3 things you may not know about… Terry Tompkins
Terry Tompkins is a partner and producer at Toronto music & sound design house Eggplant Collective
Moves & Signings
MOVES
Straight Up & Down
– In a surprise move, Toronto’s CORE Digital Pictures has closed its doors, with the apparent loss of around 150 jobs at the ambitious visual effects and animation house that William Shatner built. Shatner launched CORE in 1994 along with Bob Munroe, John Mariella and Kyle Menzies.
The powerful frontrunner, the surprise snubs
Polytechnique, the powerful drama about the 1989 Montreal massacre, leads a pack of little-known titles at the 30th annual Genie Awards, with the contentious yet acclaimed film scoring 11 nominations, including best picture.
Carmody explains his motivation for Polytechnique
‘I’ve never heard a gunshot like that.’
Faces Behind the Scenes: Charles Officer & Ingrid Veninger
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – NURSE.FIGHTER.BOY
Faces Behind the Scenes: Jim Donovan
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION – 3 SAISONS
Faces Behind the Scenes: Benoît Charest
BENOÎT CHAREST
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