This is the first of John Paizs's trilogy known as "The Three Worlds of Nick." The other two include Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms (2021) and The International Style (2021). This one is introduced as "The First World presents ... Nick at home."
During filming, a crash during a scene with Corny Blower's car destroyed a $2000 camera belonging to the National Film Board of Canada. Later, in his film Crime Wave (1985), John Paizs used the actual audio recording from that crash and the pictures taken after police arrived, during a fictionalized description of the accident.