Briefly: news, links

Summer. It's been a little slow lately, but here is what has been happening.

Nitro races to $2,000,000 in Québec. Toronto Film Festival started announcing its line-up with George Clooney's Michael Clayton. Canuck Ryan Gosling will make an appearance in TO with Lars and the Real Girl. American cable companies want their grubby hands all over our Canadian TVs, and, Michael Geist doesn't think Canadians will be watching clips of Porky's on YouTube on their Apple iPhone anytime soon with the absurdly high cost of Rogers data plans.