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The growing problem of fires being caused by lithium-ion batteries has become an “emerging risk” in this region, a fire chief warned this week.

Five Stewartry councillors have criticised the public events schedule for the Galloway National Park consultation.

Stonehouse Brighter Village Group needs your help!

Redbox parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment has shifted its bankruptcy filing from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7, meaning it will liquidate its business.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television has hired Thomas Santram, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Cineplex, the largest cinema chain in Canada, as the chair of its board of directors. 

Castle Douglas Swimming Pool is in line for an upgrade.

Canada’s top film and television awards are going gender-neutral.

Naman Ramachandran The Canadian Screen Awards will transition to gender neutral performance categories for lead and supporting performers in the film and television awards streams from 2023. The move will see an increase in the number of nominations per category from five to eight. The change follows a large-scale five-year consultation effort, which included 40 key industry organizations. The Canadian Screen Awards have awarded gender neutral performance categories in the digital media awards stream since 2019. The performance categories in film and television for the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards will be presented as follows:

Naman Ramachandran CTV’s “Transplant” led television honors at the Canadian Screen Awards with eight wins including best drama series, best lead actor, drama series for Hamza Haq and best lead actress, drama series for Laurence Leboeuf.The final season of CBC’s “Kim’s Convenience” won three Canadian Screen Awards, including Paul Sun-Hyung Lee for best lead actor, comedy; Jean Yoon for best lead actress, comedy; and Andrew Phung for best supporting actor, comedy, marking his fifth win in this category. The award for best comedy series went to CBC’s “Sort Of.”Film honors were led by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson’s “Scarborough,” which won eight Canadian Screen Awards including best motion picture, achievement in direction and the John Dunning best first feature film award.

Naman Ramachandran The inaugural season of CBC and HBO Max series “Sort Of” leads both the television and overall 2022 Canadian Screen Award nominations with 13 nods. CBC’s “Pretty Hard Cases” and CTV Sci-Fi Channel’s “Wynonna Earp” with 11 each, and CBC’s “Coroner” and “Kim’s Convenience” with 10 each are the other leading television nominees.The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television revealed on Tuesday 145 nominations across television, film and digital media categories.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has announced the nominees for the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards, spread across 145 categories, including film, television, and digital media.

The Canadian Academy is honouring the people in Canadian media who have made a difference.

To mark the partial lifting of lockdown, local More Than Fitness gym owners, John  Young and Grant MacDonald, are taking part in a 24-hour indoor ASSAULT AIR bike cycle to raise money for the Ladywell Community Fridge Food Bank.