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  • New Canadian Content laws specify 55% of pop stars dated by former Prime Ministers must be Canadian
  • In Canada: The Beaches Reach a New Streaming Peak After Major Sync on Prime Video’s ‘Off Campus’
  • At the Canadian Screen Awards, the Industry Steps Outside Hollywood’s Shadow

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thebeaverton.com /1 month ago

New Canadian Content laws specify 55% of pop stars dated by former Prime Ministers must be Canadian

OTTAWA – A recent amendment to Canadian content laws has set a minimum quota for the celebrity partners of former Canadian Prime Ministers, requiring at least 55% of pop stars date...

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billboard.com /1 month ago

In Canada: The Beaches Reach a New Streaming Peak After Major Sync on Prime Video’s ‘Off Campus’

ArtHouse Media Group launched a new venue in Toronto and the industry mourns Cris Derksen

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nytimes.com /1 month ago

At the Canadian Screen Awards, the Industry Steps Outside Hollywood’s Shadow

No longer content with being just “Hollywood North,” the Canadian screen industry is asserting itself and telling its own stories.

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

This is your weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report along with the latest streaming numbers (04 June 2026)

It’s a two-steps-forward-one-step-back kind of week for Canadian CD and vinyl sales. Here’s what Luminate reports:   Streaming numbers:

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

This is your weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report (21 May 2026)

What have we got for CD and vinyl sales in Canada this week? I also have the streaming numbers from Luminate.   Streaming numbers:

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Here’s the weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report. Streaming stats, too. (11 June 2026)

Time for another check on how CDs and vinyl are selling in Canada. Luminate also supplies streaming numbers, too.   Streaming numbers:

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exclaim.ca /2 weeks ago

Canada Is Now Eligible for Eurovision

Thanks to Mark Carney's critical budget allotments last year, it's official: Canada is now eligible to enter the annual Eurovision Song

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billboard.com /1 month ago

In Canada: Drake Breaks Records for Most No. 1s Ever on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 & Album Charts

Also up north this week: an update on the music "streaming tax" is "forthcoming" and the National Music Centre names a new board chair.

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mobilesyrup.com /1 month ago

CRTC orders streamers to pay 15% of revenues to Canadian content

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has announced that large streaming services must contribute 15 per cent of their Canadian revenues to Canadian co...

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globalnews.ca /1 month ago

U.S. streaming industry slams CRTC rules for Canadian content investment

The Motion Picture Association, which represents U.S. streamers including Netflix, said the new rules impose unprecedented, unnecessary and discriminatory investment obligations.

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /6 days ago

It’s the weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report. Streaming stats, too. (09 July 2026)

We’re officially midway through 2026. Here’s what Luminate reports on Canadian CD and vinyl sales along with streaming stats at the halfway mark.   Streaming numbers:

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 week ago

It’s the weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report. We’ll look at streaming, too. (02 July 2026)

The last sales/streaming report of the first half of 2026 has arrived via Luminate. Here’s where we are at the six month mark.,   Streaming numbers:

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thebeaverton.com /3 weeks ago

Hockey Night In Canada moves from CBC to Rogers; Canadian Cultural Identity reduced to butter tarts, Eugene Levy

OTTAWA – With CBC losing the rights to air Hockey Night In Canada, meaning fans must now pay to watch it on Rogers Sportsnet, the entirety of Canadian culture now consists solely o...

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allthecanadianpolitics.tumblr.com /1 month ago

A Quebec-made video game set in a fictionalized version of the American Deep South, called South of…

A Quebec-made game set in the Deep South just won big. It says a lot about Canada’s gaming industry | CBC NewsA Quebec-made video game set in a fictionalized version of the America...

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exclaim.ca /1 month ago

'Heated Rivalry,' 'Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie' Top the Canadian Screen Awards

It's been a strong stretch for Canadian film and TV, and that was reflected this weekend at the Canadian Screen Awards, where

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /3 weeks ago

Here’s the weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report. We’ll look at streaming, too. (18 June 2026)

As spring transitions into summer, let’s have a look at where things stand as far as CD and vinyl sales and then dip into the world of streaming. All figures from Luminate.   Strea...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

The O Canada! contest is back

We’re about a month away from Canada’s 159th birthday on July 1. To celebrate that, the O Canada Station contest is back for a second year. All Canadians are invited to record a

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billboard.com /1 month ago

In Canada: bbno$ Found Sanctuary Online. Now, He Wants to Pay It Forward to Others

Also up north this week: Billboard Canada reveals its music managers to watch, and Diljit Dosanjh meets students enrolled in a university course dedicated to him.

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globalnews.ca /1 month ago

Major streamers must pay 15% of revenues to Canadian content, CRTC says

That’s three times the 5% initial contribution requirement the CRTC set out in 2024, which is being challenged in court by major streamers including Apple, Amazon and Spotify.

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /2 weeks ago

Time again for the weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report along with streaming stats (25 June 2026)

Before we look at this week’s sales and streaming numbers from Luminate, check out what Quebec’s Angine de Poitrine did on the Billboard album charts. That’s wild for such a differ...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /5 days ago

Introducing Canada’s newest album prize competition: The Meridian Prize

Welcome to The Meridian Prize, Canada’s newest album prize. It focuses on albums from Western and Northern Canada that display “exceptional artistic achievement.” In other words, i...

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zoomer.com /1 month ago

Own Canada’s Leaders with High Monthly Income

For Canadian retirees, the case for investing at home has rarely been stronger. The companies that built this country’s economy continue to deliver the kind of steady, growing inco...

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supplychaingamechanger.com /1 month ago

Why Canadian Laws of Entertainment Should be Changed!

The entertainment industry in Canada is vast and diverse, encompassing everything from film and television to music and sports. It is a major contributor to the Canadian economy, g...

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deadline.com /1 month ago

Heated $2B Requirements: MPA Livid As Canada Jacks Up Streamers’ Content Revenue Contributions

In what is shaping up to become a very heated rivalry, the Motion Picture Association didn’t quite use the word socialism today over a Canadian regulatory move, but they got damn c...

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