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Creative heavyweight Jay Baruchel to deliver closing keynote at PTiO

OTTAWA - Noted actor, producer, writer and director Jay Baruchel will wrap up the 2018 edition of Prime Time in Ottawa (PTiO) as the closing keynote speaker.Baruchel’s recent credits include Goon: Last of the Enforcers, Man Seeking Woman, This Is the End, Tropic Thunder and the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, among numerous others.  A full list of PTiO speakers is available here. “Jay Baruchel represents the very best of what it means to be a Canadian creative,” said CMPA president and CEO Reynolds Mastin, in the announcement.  “His innovative and modern view of the Canadian screen-based production sector is exactly the injection...