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Awards season is heating up at ACTRA Branches, as Toronto, Maritimes, and Montreal gear up to hand out their big prizes over the next few weeks.

ACTRA members always rise to the occasion, as seen in this 1984 REWIND when broadcaster Laurier LaPierre, singer Ann Mortifee and performer Jayne Eastwood arrived to the ACTRA Awards in Toronto - in style!

While chauffeur moustache fashion may have changed, celebrating member excellence is always on point.

We are putting the "international" into International Workers' Day alongside our sibling unions from the United Kingdom and the United States.

No union is an island - especially in our global industry - and sharing our individual unions' challenges helps us all as a global family. This week ACTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Marie Kelly joined Lesley Brady @ubcp_actra Director of Contracts, Lead Negotiator, and @equityuk General Secretary, Paul W Fleming at @sagaftra headquarters as they attend SAG-AFTRA's ongoing negotiations with AMPTP.

Solidarity matters because one union's issue today, is another union's tomorrow.

Attention aspiring Intimacy Coordinators!

ACTRA is pleased to announce “Level Up: Intimacy Coordinators” – a program designed to help upskill ACTRA members across the country who are interested in pursuing a career as an Intimacy Coordinator.

If you are an ACTRA member who is interested in completing training components required to become a fully Certified Intimacy Coordinator, we encourage you to express your interest in participating in this program by May 31, 2026.

Thank you to the @cmf.fmc for supporting this program! Visit the link in bio for more information.

May marks the start of Asian Heritage Month in Canada, a time to reflect on and celebrate the many contributions of people of Asian origin who have helped shape our country.

It’s an opportunity to honour the rich cultural heritage that spans diverse languages, ethnicities, and religious traditions, and to recognize the vibrant communities whose impact is felt across all aspects of Canadian life — including on our screens.

Tomorrow is International Workers' Day, which honours labour rights and social justice movements around the world.

What better way to mark May Day than with a REWIND to the picket lines of ACTRA's one and only IPA strike in 2007? Even better -the line being held by performer and union stalwart Shirley Douglas!

Shirley definitely had a foot in both camps: with her own amazing acting career, and as mother of Kiefer Sutherland, she was Canadian acting royalty. But her roots at the feet of her father Tommy Douglas - "The Father of Canadian Healthcare" - gave her the rock solid dedication to social justice that she would later bring to her union, ACTRA.

We are pleased to announce that ACTRA members who were eligible to vote, have ratified the 2026–2028 ACTRA–Ubisoft Video Game Agreement for a three-year retroactive term covering January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2028.

The agreement gains key improvements for members including: wage increases, AI protections, intimacy coordination, audition protections and much more.

We extend a special thanks to the ACTRA–Ubisoft Bargaining Committee, whose dedication and hard work made this agreement possible.

Today on National Day of Mourning, we join unions across the country to remember workers who have lost their lives, suffered injury, or faced illness due to workplace hazards.

At ACTRA, the safety of our members on set is not just a priority – it’s a core value of our union. We remain committed to advocating for safer working environments for all.

Everyone deserves to get home safely at the end of a workday.

ACTRA members – are you unwittingly letting TikTok use your content to power their generative AI? That’s chopped.

A toggle called “Allow AI to remix content” is now tucked into privacy settings on individual videos which – when on - gives TikTok’s AI tools the green light to use that particular video as source material for AI‑driven edits or remixes. Even worse? The toggle has been enabled by default across many old uploaded videos.

More cringe? There’s no account-wide master switch to turn it off. You have to open individual videos, access the privacy settings, and turn off that feature one video at a time. Cheugy.

Want to stop your content feeding AI without your consent?

1. Open one of your posted TikTok videos.
2. Tap the three dots to bring up the options menu.
3. Go to “Privacy settings”.
4. Find the “Allow AI to remix content” toggle and turn it off for that video.

Read more about TikTok's AI tactics via link in bio.

*ACTRA National apologizes profusely for the use of TikTok slang words that we don’t actually know how to use properly. Are we cooked? 😎

Expand your understanding of gender diversity in the Canadian film industry.

Created by the Spindle Films Foundation, this online training program explores gender categories, inclusive terminology, and the nuances of pronouns.

Available until May 31, the course takes just 20–40 minutes to complete.

For more information, visit the link in bio.

The federal Heritage Committee has released its report on AI and Canada's creative industries - and for the first time, Parliament is on record saying that performers deserve consent, control, and compensation over how their work is used to train AI.

The report backs key protections ACTRA has been fighting for but there is still a long road ahead - the recommendations aren't law yet, and the government has 90 days to respond. We'll be making our positions heard at every opportunity.

The federal Heritage Committee has released its report on AI and Canada's creative industries - and for the first time, Parliament is on record saying that performers deserve consent, control, and compensation over how their work is used to train AI.

The report backs key protections ACTRA has been fighting for but there is still a long road ahead - the recommendations aren't law yet, and the government has 90 days to respond. We'll be making our positions heard at every opportunity.

The federal Heritage Committee has released its report on AI and Canada's creative industries - and for the first time, Parliament is on record saying that performers deserve consent, control, and compensation over how their work is used to train AI.

The report backs key protections ACTRA has been fighting for but there is still a long road ahead - the recommendations aren't law yet, and the government has 90 days to respond. We'll be making our positions heard at every opportunity.

The federal Heritage Committee has released its report on AI and Canada's creative industries - and for the first time, Parliament is on record saying that performers deserve consent, control, and compensation over how their work is used to train AI.

The report backs key protections ACTRA has been fighting for but there is still a long road ahead - the recommendations aren't law yet, and the government has 90 days to respond. We'll be making our positions heard at every opportunity.

The federal Heritage Committee has released its report on AI and Canada's creative industries - and for the first time, Parliament is on record saying that performers deserve consent, control, and compensation over how their work is used to train AI.

The report backs key protections ACTRA has been fighting for but there is still a long road ahead - the recommendations aren't law yet, and the government has 90 days to respond. We'll be making our positions heard at every opportunity.

Another amazing @canfilmday was celebrated across the country yesterday and as part of the festivities, special events were held to honour the life and legacy of Six Nations actor Graham Greene.

Greene, who was Oneida from Six Nations of the Grand River, died last fall at the age of 73.

The celebration of Graham Greene included a screening of his film Clearcut (1991). We REWIND to Greene at his legendary best portraying ‘Arthur’ in that 90’s Canadian cult classic.

ACTRA National joins @actratoronto in applauding the Government of Ontario’s Strengthening Talent Agencies Regulation (STAR) Act, which will have a significant and positive impact on how performers working in Ontario’s screen-based industries are paid, protected and supported.

If passed, the Strengthening Talent Agency Regulation (STAR) Act, which was announced yesterday by Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Minister David Piccini, would enforce commission caps, and fee restrictions while also ensuring prompt payment and setting financial safeguards.

“ACTRA Toronto has long advocated for enforceable rules to protect all performers against wage theft, particularly for background performers, and to ensure that all performers receive fair and timely compensation for their work. We thank Minister Piccini for providing clear and enforceable standards that will do just that” said ACTRA Toronto President Kate Ziegler.

ACTRA National is pleased to see such protections being put into place in our union’s largest jurisdiction and we hope it leads to similar safeguards introduced across Canada in the future. We congratulate the ACTRA Toronto team for the many hours of public policy outreach it took to get to this point.

To learn more on the proposed STAR Act, visit the link in bio.