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Walk Of Fame Steps Out With David Suzuki

Canada’s Walk of Fame will honour 2017 Inductee David Suzuki with a permanent star in his hometown of Vancouver on March 23.

Walk Of Fame Steps Out With David Suzuki

By FYI Staff

Canada’s Walk of Fame will honour 2017 Inductee David Suzuki with a permanent star in his hometown of Vancouver on March 23, marking the organization’s first event outside of Ontario in its 20-year history. 


The Hometown Star program is a new initiative providing inductees with a hometown plaque mounted at a location of their choice. 
 
Dr. Suzuki’s is to be unveiled at the CBC Vancouver broadcast centre where he had a long and successful career as show host of The Nature Of Things. He was formally inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame on November 15, 2017, at the Beyond Famous Gala in Toronto.

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Canadian Government Introduces Canada Creative Credit to Support 'Artistic Production'
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Canadian Government Introduces Canada Creative Credit to Support 'Artistic Production'

The Mark Carney government's new federal budget also confirms a $600 million investment to provide relief to the audiovisual sector for 2026-27, which was first announced in June.

Canada has built a new support for the creative sector into the new federal budget.

The Carney government's 2026 federal budget was tabled Thursday afternoon (Nov. 5), and it includes a new and forthcoming Canada Creative Credit, described as a tax relief "for Canadian artists to foster creativity, artistic production and cultural entrepreneurship." In a subsequent message posted to X, prime minister Mark Carney revealed that Canadian artists can benefit from an exception of up to $45,000.

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