MONTREAL – With Shaw and now Videotron having stopped payment on their monthly cheques to the Canadian Television Fund, the CTF board of directors said late Wednesday it has…
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OTTAWA – Bev Oda told the principal private funders of the Canadian Television Fund that she wants to meet with them next week.
"I have received letters from Shaw…
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TORONTO – Canadian digi-net Salt + Light Television today launched Zoom, a "four-minute window to the Catholic world" to the web, what it believes to be the world’s first…
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TORONTO – The labour situation between Canada’s actors and producers hasn’t changed so today ACTRA, the actors’ union, issued the following open letter to the Canadian Film and Television…
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OTTAWA – An open line show on TV station TQS which discussed a Brossard school’s decision to barricade the windows of the swimming pool while three young Muslim women…
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OTTAWA – If former Craig Media CEO Drew Craig wants back into broadcasting, he’s going to have to go about it some other way, says the Canadian Association of…
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TORONTO – Saying violence in the media is a pervasive, destructive force against children, a new coalition is calling for new laws to censor it.
"The destructive influence of…
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MONTREAL – Talks between Canadian film and TV producers and the actors they employ have broken off again as the two sides can’t decide how much the actors should…
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CALGARY – Saying he wants an accounting of exactly how the Canadian Television Fund money is spent and where the value is, Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw says until…
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CBC/RADIO-CANADA DOES NOT receive any money from the Canadian Television Fund (see "Shaw suspends TV fund payments"). The fund goes to independent producers to help them make Canadian…
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