#ACTRAToronto members Myles, Samy, Jo, Craig, Cory, Lovina, Alex and Kyle are independent contractors.
They aren't in the BU$INE$$ of giving away the paying jobs that they want for themselves to #ACTRA union members who've been in the industry as long as they have let alone to a horde of newcomers
#ACTRAToronto
Canada's largest animation studio Nelvana shut down operations after 54 years.
The employees were notified in late August 2025.
Parent company Corus Entertainment, facing severe financial pressure and over $1 billion in debt, halted new productions to cut costs.
#ACTRAToronto ( the largest branch in ACTRA, Canada's film, television, and radio performers union ) doesn't tell any of their union members that they have a right to a union representative to fight for them at a disciplinary hearing.
SAG-AFTRA is a far better union than #ACTRA in that regard.
( Response to Paul )(cont)
Pointing out that #ACTRAToronto union members are suffering as a result of #ACTRA denying them the possibility of earning an income elsewhere when they aren't getting hired to work on union productions does not make me 'anti-union'.
It makes you anti-union member,Paul.
( Response to Paul )(cont)
#ACTRAToronto isn't going to fall with you when you fall as a result of not getting union work and being denied the opportunity to pick up non-union work to pay for the necessities of life.
#ACTRA isn't paying you a retainer to cover your costs when you're not working.
( Response to Paul )
ACTRA is blocking thousands of ACTRA union members who are making less than $15,000 a year on ACTRA union productions from making a living by prohibiting them from working on non-union productions.
The union jobs that #ACTRAToronto members don't get pays $0.
(cont.)
( Response to Pop Whiz 'Do Not Work Notice' on #ACTRAToronto Facebook page )
Savvy Djokovic:
"Why does Actra block people from earning a living?? This rule needs to change."
#ACTRAMontreal #ACTRAAlberta #UBCP/ACTRA
#ACTRAToronto would be perfectly okay with giving every last one of Myles, Samy, Jo, Craig, Cory, Lovina, Alex and Kyle's upcoming video game voice work jobs away to non-union voice artists who would be willing to "cross the floor" and join #ACTRA Toronto union.
Video games CAN be made without #ACTRAToronto union members because there ARE non-union voice artists who are just as talented, and in some cases even more talented than #ACTRA Toronto union members Myles, Samy, Jo, Craig, Cory, Lovina, Alex and Kyle.
The much cheaper, and much less troublesome, non-union competition of voice artists like Myles, Samy, Jo, Craig, Cory, Lovina, Alex and Kyle wouldn't have to meet, talk, and work with the aforementioned #ACTRAToronto union members to learn how to perform a voice in a video game.
You don't have to be a member of #ACTRAToronto union to be a Canadian teenager on a Canadian television game show.
Is ACTRA Toronto going to be changing the By-laws to prohibit the non-union children of ACTRA Toronto union members from appearing on a tv game show?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy1Y...
#ACTRAToronto #ACTRAMontreal #ACTRAAlberta #UBCP/ACTRA
ACTRA Toronto union members are prohibited from appearing as themselves on television.
They aren't representing ACTRA when they appear as themselves.
hughbetcha.substack.com/p/why-actras...
An example of former #ACTRAToronto President Theresa Tova's idea of "thoughtful debate" and "respectful disagreement" :
hughbetcha.substack.com/p/actra-disr...
Go to 31:44 on the April 21, 2024 Labor Notes Conference video below and listen to Kate Ziegler's speech, #ACTRAToronto Executive Director Rob Halpin.
The RCAP Committee members rose to power within the union by breaking #ACTRA 's rules.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRJ1...
#ACTRAToronto 's 2025 #ACTRAAwards ceremony included the "Outstanding Performance – Commercial" category.
How unimpressive.
actratoronto.com/winners/2025...
The #ACTRAToronto union members who have been making less than $15,000 a year in a city where the rent is over $2,000 a month would be a lot more excited, and possibly way beyond thrilled, if #ACTRA stopped fleecing them for tickets to the #ACTRAAwards
hughbetcha.substack.com/p/actra-and-...
The Commercial Lockout will be entering its 4th year on April 27, 2026.
Alistair Hepburn took over as the #ACTRAToronto Executive Director on Sept. 10, 2021.
Is #ACTRAToronto Executive Director Rob Halpin aware that the majority (if not all) of the Internal Hiring Committee is made up of members of the RCAP (Rank and File Caucus of ACTRA Performers) Committee?
Former ACTRA Toronto President Tova did not speak well of the RCAP in her resignation letter
"This is a house on fire. The Industry is watching ACTRA Toronto closely, uncertain who -or what- can be trusted."
- Former #ACTRAToronto Councillor/ Former #ACTRA Toronto President/ Former ACTRA National Treasurer Theresa Tova's Resignation Letter Feb 6, 2026
That is not a slight against #ACTRAToronto union member Paul Sun-Hyung Lee's talent as an actor.
It is a comment on how limited an actor's prospects of becoming 'Famous' by appearing in 'Canadian Content' are.
www.youtube.com/shorts/dgFsc...
#ACTRAToronto #ACTRAMontreal #UBCP/ACTRA
#ACTRAAlberta #Diversity #Racism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHk7...
