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Canadian Music Week

Canada’s International Music Convention, March7-10, 2007, Toronto, Ottawa, Canada.

Now in its 25th year, Rogers Wireless Canadian Music Week is the single longest running and premiere conference focusing on business of Music, bringing together Sound Recording, New Technology and Broadcast for one spectacular week of events.
Combining informative, intensive conferences, cutting edge trade exposition, award shows & Canada’s biggest New Music Festival. By night Toronto’s most popular clubs and concert halls throw open their doors to industry insiders and the general public to create an electrifying musicfest of discovery. The talented emerging new bands are music to the ears of A&R reps on the lookout for next year’s stars. The Festival spans 4 nights of performances, with over 600 showcasing bands at over 44 live music venues in downtown Toronto.

Canadians prominent in list of Academy Award nominees

Academy announces Oscar nominations
CanWest News Service

Canadians figure prominently in this year’s list of Academy Award nominees. This continues a long tradition of Canadians being influential in the making of films in the United States at the production, directing, acting and marketing of movies worldwide.

Dreamgirls earned a leading eight Academy Awards nominations, but didn’t get a nod for Best Picture. Babel, The Departed, Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine and The Queen will compete for the honour instead.

Canadian Ryan Gosling was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of a drug addicted teacher in Half Nelson and Canadian Paul Haggis earned a nomination for Best Original Screenplay for his work on Letters from Iwo Jima. Canadian director Deepa Mehta’s Water is on the list of Best Foreign Film nominees.