Actors call on Ontario to keep Status of the Artist promise

TORONTO - Canadian stars Wendy Crewson, Sonja Smits, Tonya Lee Williams and Karl Pruner, gathered at Queen’s Park Thursday to push for urgent amendments to the Status of Ontario’s Artists Act.“This Act makes a mockery of the term Status of the Artist,” Karl Pruner, ACTRA Toronto’s president said in a statement. “After years of hard work by the Culture Minister’s own sub-committee on Status of the Artist, all this empty Act contains is a weekend to celebrate artists.” Actress Wendy Crewson called the Act “Vacuous” and said it’s “a sorry attempt by the government to check something off their to-do...