The province has committed to replacing the Metro Toronto Convention Centre with a facility roughly four times the size of its exhibit floor. Five months on, the site is still unnamed — and for production companies, the site is the whole story.
From the first site visit to the strike, the sequence behind a Toronto conference plenary — who does what, in what order, and where the schedule actually breaks.
26 July 2026What began as a members’ grievance about hotel and convention-centre service packages is turning into a competition-policy argument — and a test of how much leverage independent Canadian producers actually have.
27 July 2026Audio visual and live event production companies serving corporate events across Canada and the United States. Shortlist three, send one brief.
11 companies · 6 service types · free to list
Floor loading, dock and door dimensions, ceiling heights, rigging and house audio — the specs that decide whether a build is straightforward or expensive.
32 venues · production specs · re-verified quarterly
CITT/ICTS brings its 36th annual conference to uOttawa from 12 to 14 August, with two days of pre-conference training, a 25-exhibitor trade show, and a new three-course series on the parts of the job nobody trains for.
28 July 2026Panel lead times have normalised. Currency and border costs have not. How Toronto rental houses are staging purchases, and what it is doing to sub-rental pricing across the region. [sample]
24 July 2026Rigging, power and network charges now routinely exceed the AV package itself on large Toronto general sessions. Where the money actually goes, and which line items are negotiable before a contract is signed. [sample]
22 July 2026One email a week for people who produce corporate events: what changed in the rooms you’re working in, what it costs, who’s hiring and moving, and what’s coming up on the Canadian calendar. Written for people who actually build the shows.