Louis Pearson has been promoted to senior director of acquisitions and original film at Quebecor Content.

The Canadian government has introduced the Online Streaming Act, which would require online streaming services to contribute to the creation and availability of Canadian stories and music.

Corus Entertainment has purchased a majority stake in the Academy Award- and Emmy Award-nominated production company Aircraft Pictures, behind the animated feature film The Breadwinner.

Veteran Executive Producer Ira Levy (Less than Kind, L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, Kenny vs Spenny) has set up the Toronto-based Spike & Sadie Media film and television production company.

Tara Woodbury, executive producer of the CTV medical drama Transplant, has been tapped by Netflix as its first Canadian content executive.

Graham Ludlow has been hired as a production and development executive for Incendo in Canada.

BIPOC TV & Film has launched its first Showrunner Training Bootcamp, a workshop intensive for mid- to upper-level Canadian writers and content creators.

Lionsgate and Canada's CBC are working with Schitt’s Creek producer Andrew Barnsley and comedian, actor and writer Mark Critch on the new comedy Son of a Critch.

CTV has revealed its 2021 fall prime-time schedule, which features The Wonder Years alongside dramas such as The Big Leap, Queens, Our Kind of People and La Brea.

Cineflix Studios has tapped Saving Hope and Rookie Blue producer Sonia Hosko as VP of current.