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TIFF ’20: Inconvenient Indian’s call and Trickster’s answer

Michelle Latimer discusses the connection, development process and legacy of her two latest projects.

CBC sets premiere dates for The Sounds, Trickster

The pubcaster’s fall schedule will see Canada/New Zealand copro The Sounds air on Oct. 5, while Trickster lands on Oct. 7 and Family Feud Canada runs from Monday to Thursday.

Kim’s Convenience reopens for business after production shutdown

New episodes of the Thunderbird-produced comedy are scheduled to premiere on CBC TV and CBC Gem this winter.

NSI’s New Indigenous Voices tunes into a new frequency

The CBC-backed initiative is shifting its focus to podcast-based storytelling for its 2020 edition, with the Winnipeg-headquartered organization unveiling a new nine-person cohort.

ACTRA members ratify new CBC agreements

The one-year extension includes a 1.5% increase to minimum fees for Canadian performers.

CBC gets Feudal with Six Eleven Media, eOne

Created by Sheri Elwood (Call Me Fitz), production on the eight-part drama series is now underway in Nova Scotia.

Murdoch Mysteries goes to camera on 14th season

The Shaftesbury-produced series is among a raft of CBC scripted titles set to shoot in Ontario over the next six weeks, with the pubcaster reducing the episode order to 11.

In brief: CBC unveils dates for Canada/U.K. copro Enslaved

The docuseries led by Samuel L. Jackson is set to debut on the pubcaster this October, plus TLN welcomes a new member to its team.

Diggstown, Burden of Truth renewed at CBC

The Floyd Kane-created series will return to Halifax early next year to film its third season, while new episodes of Burden will shoot in Winnipeg later this summer.

‘A unique show for a unique moment’: inside CBC’s July 1 plans

Producers behind CBC’s Canada Day programming discuss how they are executing an innovative, socially distanced variety show in the midst of a pandemic.

CBC says it will make hiring, retention policies more inclusive

The pubcaster says that by 2021/22 half of all hires for exec and senior management positions will be Indigenous people, visible minorities or people with disabilities.

Behind the ‘humbling’ experience of making Trickster

The team behind Trickster took part in a BANFF panel to discuss how the industry should rethink colonial values in production when it comes to Indigenous narrative sovereignty.