Tax Breaks

An Alberta tax break aimed at boosting the craft beer industry has fuelled a discount market, and U.S. jobs

Why the gaming industry’s persecution complex is hurting it

Peter Nowak on why Canada has shown rare foresight by supporting the industry

Why do governments subsidize so much of the video game industry’s operations?

With 14 per cent unemployment and its banks on the brink, the Celtic Tiger is now more like a sickly kitten

Alberta may adopt a $500 tax incentive plan for fitness fees

I mentioned that the CBC’s plan to cut the episode orders of its shows is different from what U.S. networks usually do, which is to cut budgets but order the same number of episodes. It was mentioned in comments that this isn’t viable for Canadian shows because Canadian shows already have budgets cut to the bone, to the point where they can’t do the shows for less money. That’s probably true. But in the U.S., where shows have more money to work with, they’re all going to have to figure out how to produce high-quality shows on low budgets: