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CMPA Amazed by Federal Budget for Media

December 25, 2025December 23, 2025GovernmentCMPA, federal government’s new budget, The Canadian Media Producers Association

In a year when Canada’s screen industry has been holding its breath, the federal government’s new budget landed with the kind of impact usually reserved for a festival-night world premiere. The Canadian Media Producers Association

Tax Shelter Era: When Canadian Cinema Got Popular

October 18, 2022April 2, 2024GovernmentFilm, Tax Shelter

“There are now many Canadian films, but there aren’t too many good ones are there?” The above quote was spoken in 1980 by then-Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau at a black-tie film industry event. Whereas

SK NDP: Use Soundstage for Filmmaking

August 13, 2015August 13, 2015GovernmentSaskatchewan, soundstage in Regina

(Via WireService.ca) Saskatchewan has its own provincial soundstage in Regina for film productions. But since 2012, business in the film industry has been so slow it’s barely come near the soundstage, due to the tax

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