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While our American audience can feel free to skip this post in lieu of ones favoring domestic gladiatorial work opportunities, we strongly felt the need to pass along this story to our Canadian readers—an editorial decision we reassure you was reached based entirely on its news merits alone, and not out of some deal made with their government to boost our Canadian content in exchange for an attractive array of bloggers' tax incentives.

Following in the footsteps of last year's Junos and the Canadian Country Music Awards, the 2008 Canadian Comedy Awards and Festival will also be relocating to Regina, the southern Saskatchewan city quickly growing into Canada's Entertainment Awards Center. (For any Americans who have made it this far and require an analogy to fully grasp the scope of this announcement, it's as if the Grammys, the CMAs, and a resuscitated American Comedy Awards suddenly announced they'd be relocating to Cheyenne, Wyoming.) Sure, Toronto might still be lightheaded from a TIFF visit from a dreamy-eyed Jake Gyllenhaal, but we think we already know where the center of the Canadian universe will be this time next year, as the glittering stars of Little Mosque on the Prairie, Rent-A-Goalie, and Corner Gas descend upon the prairie capital for a night celebrating the biggest and best Canadian comedy talent that has yet to head down to the States to actually make it big.