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What changed, and when. Agreements get amended and figures get corrected; a number that was right last year and is wrong now is the failure this whole project exists to avoid, so the record is public.

Corrections are listed here too, not quietly fixed. 3 entries below are corrections to things this site previously got wrong. If a figure you relied on has changed, it will be here with the article.

  • Four DGC clauses were showing the wrong text

    Correction

    Where a DGC clause starts with a lettered subsection, the agreement sets the number and the letter in a hanging indent, and the text extraction read the rows out of order — so Article 15.1, the regular work day, came out as a single broken line with no title. The page numbers and links were never affected. The text for 15.1, 15.2, 19.6 and 22.6 has been read off the printed page and typed in by hand, so those clauses now search and quote properly. 15.1 is the fifteen-hour work day; it is worth knowing it was hard to find until now.

    DGC BC Collective Agreement 2025–2028, Articles 15.1, 15.2, 19.6, 22.6

  • Clause Finder — search the agreements, get the page

    New or changed tool

    Search the BCCFU Master Agreement, the UBCP/ACTRA BC Master Production Agreement and the DGC BC Collective Agreement at once, by clause number or by what the rule is about. Every result gives the article number, the printed page, a link that opens the union's own PDF at that page, and a citation you can copy in one tap. The three agreements use different words for the same thing — UBCP calls turnaround "Rest Between Days" — so searching for cast turnaround finds the performers' clause, not the crew one. The agreements' text is not reproduced here; the tool tells you where to look and links the official document. Rate schedules are not indexed, and the tool page says how far into each agreement the index reaches. Each result also quotes the opening of the clause, with the agreement, clause number and page beneath it — quoted automatically from the official document, so open the PDF for the rest.

  • Agreement page numbers verified against the unions' own files

    Site

    The page numbers behind every Clause Finder link were checked against the PDFs the unions and the bargaining bodies actually host. All three files are byte-for-byte identical to the copies the page numbers were read from, so a link that says p. 26 opens at p. 26. The check is recorded per agreement on the tool page, and stored as a file fingerprint so it can be repeated in seconds if a document is ever re-uploaded.

  • Cast hours now cite the performers' agreement, not the crew one

    Correction

    The Cast Hours Calculator applied the right meal rule but credited it to the wrong contract: BCCFU 6.03, which is the crew agreement covering IATSE 891, ICG 669 and Teamsters 155. Cast in BC are UBCP/ACTRA performers, so the citation is now A1401(a) and (c). The numbers did not change — both agreements require thirty minutes and pay the second meal through — but whose agreement governs is not a detail, and the two do not agree everywhere.

    UBCP/ACTRA BCMPA 2025-2028, Article A1401

  • Meal Clock is now marked crew-only

    Correction

    Its penalty scale is BCCFU's fixed dollar amounts. Performers are under a different kind of calculation entirely — UBCP A1403 pays the performer's own overtime rate at one and a half times, in tenths of an hour past the sixth. Running a performer through the crew scale produces a number that looks authoritative and is not theirs, so the tool now says so on its face.

    BCCFU 6.04 (crew) vs UBCP/ACTRA A1403 (performers)

  • Scan a call sheet with the phone camera

    New or changed tool

    The Cast Turnaround Clock can read a photographed call sheet and pull the times out for you to tap into the table. Reading happens on your device — the photo is never uploaded and never stored. It finds the times and shows the words beside each one; it does not try to guess which column they belong to, because call sheet layouts differ enough that a confident guess would eventually be confidently wrong. The recognition engine downloads once from a public code mirror the first time you scan; it never sees your image.

  • Cast Turnaround Clock works backwards from a crew call

    New or changed tool

    Enter tomorrow's general crew call and it gives the latest each performer can be dismissed tonight. The whole-cast deadline is the tightest one, not the average: a minor on twelve hours has to be out before an adult on eleven, and the row that sets it is marked. Choose whether the call means cast are in, or set-ready with prep already done.

  • Drawn icons, chart-style reference tables, and readable figures

    Site

    The emoji placeholders are gone, replaced by a drawn icon set. Reference pages read as charts with banded rows, and no longer force a sideways scroll on desktop. Figures moved off the monospace face to a proportional one with fixed-width digits, so columns still line up without the blocky look.

  • The site follows the commissioned logo

    Site

    New teal palette taken from the artwork. This also fixed an accessibility fault that had been live since launch: the previous amber accent measured 2.19:1 against white, under the 3:1 minimum for non-text interface elements.

  • UBCP rest period is eleven hours, conditionally

    Agreement change

    The 2025-2028 Memorandum of Agreement raised the performer rest period from ten hours to eleven. It turns on when the production commenced principal photography, not on today's date — a series already shooting when the changeover landed stays on ten. Both figures are live and the tool cites which it used.

    UBCP/ACTRA BCMPA A1301, as amended by the 2025-2028 MOA, item 7

  • Minors: tutoring, chaperone rights and monies in trust changed

    Agreement change

    Re-read against the full consolidated 2025-2028 agreement rather than the amendment alone. Tutoring now covers performers aged seventeen and eighteen who still attend school; chaperone rights extend to seventeen-year-olds on request; and monies in trust replaced automatic Public Guardian and Trustee handling with a real choice of destination.

    UBCP/ACTRA BCMPA Articles A2703, A2706, A2709

  • DGC mileage is no longer a flat rate

    Agreement change

    The copy of the DGC agreement in use here was the 2021-2024 text, which paid a flat thirty-five cents per kilometre. The current agreement uses the same escalating table as BCCFU, at the same four effective dates. The crew reference card was showing the old figure.

    DGC BC 2025-2028, Article 22.6(b)

Only changes a user would notice are listed. Refactors and dependency updates are not, because you could not tell they happened.