Canadian incentive rates move constantly, and most published comparisons are quietly out of date. This is the log of what changed, when it took effect, and where we read it.
A daily monitor watches each administering authority's pages and flags diffs. Detection is automated; publication is not — a human verifies against the primary source first.
Guidelines as amended 20 July 2026 define the +10% volume bonus as two completed eligible projects with combined Saskatchewan spend of at least $1.5M over four fiscal years. The programme marketing page still describes a minutes-of-content threshold; the guidelines govern.
The July 2026 fact sheet confirms no changes to eligible production cost criteria and no new eligibility requirements. Rates remain 22% base and 30% for Alberta-owned, treaty co-production, or rural/remote.
Bill 2 (2026) administrative changes: PSTC pre-certification eliminated for productions first incurring accredited B.C. labour on or after 20 Oct 2025; filing deadline extended from 18 to 36 months for tax years ending on or after 17 Aug 2024; accreditation fee increased for applications received on or after 1 March 2026. No rate changes.
Bill 5, Budget Measures Implementation Act 2025, Royal Assent 29 May 2025. Applies to productions starting principal photography after 31 December 2024. The increase was announced 12 December 2024 and confirmed in Budget 2025 — not in Budget 2024, as several secondary sources report. FIBC went to 40%, not the 36% originally proposed.
Budget 2024-2025 raised the basic rate for approval-certificate applications filed after 12 March 2024, and introduced the 65% limitation on VFX and animation service contracts. The combined VFX rate is 25% + 16% = 41% on directly-incurred labour, but only 26.65% effective on contracted-out VFX.
The former per-project ceiling was eliminated, making Alberta viable for large-budget productions for the first time.
A monthly digest is fine for most things. A rate change isn't — waiting up to thirty days to hear that a jurisdiction moved is how a budget gets built on last year's numbers. Those go out separately, the day they're confirmed.