Colin Mochrie, Wendy Crewson and Gordon Pinsent were among several dozen performers who put a damper on Global’s splashy fall TV launch Wednesday, waving placards and yelling slogans outside a downtown theatre demanding that more homegrown series be put on television.

Toronto - Canadian performers are angered that executives of Canada�s private broadcasters are in L.A. this week gambling hundreds of millions of dollars on new American shows for the fall television season while neglecting our own domestic industry.

�Canada�s private broadcasters are eager to hand over more than $250 million dollars on new American dramas and reality shows, when they should be investing in new Canadian dramas in their own backyards,�

Don Jordan, President of ACTRA Montreal, is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2007 ACTRA Awards in Montreal to be presented at Le Medley on June 9, 2007.

ACTRA and the Canadian ad industry represented by the Association of Canadian Advertisers (ACA), and the Institute of Communications and Advertising (ICA) have tentatively agreed to a one-year extension of the current National Commercial Agreement. The ad industry associations and ACTRA agreed to increase performer minimum fees and rates by 3% as well as adding 1% in Insurance contributions for performers.

For Immediate Release: ACTRA Toronto President Karl Pruner expressed ACTRAâ��s deep disappointment in the Status of Ontarioâ��s Artists Act, passed yesterday as part of the budget package. 

Some well-known Canadian actors said Thursday that Ontario’s Liberal government broke a campaign promise to help artists qualify for the same labour protections and training programs as other workers.

Stephen Waddell, National Executive Director of ACTRA, today announced that Brad Keenan will be filling the position of Director, ACTRA Performers� Rights Society (ACTRA PRS). The appointment is effective immediately.

Canadian broadcasters decrease Canadian TV drama spending by 13.7 and increase foreign TV drama spending by 19.2

Performers are heartened by the mention in today�s Ontario budget that Status of the Artist legislation will be introduced in 2007.

A bitter six-week labour dispute between Canadian actors and producers was nearly the "final nail in the coffin" for the country’s already battered film and television industry, which experts say now faces a long, hard, uphill climb along the road to recovery.