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25th May 2012

Shaftesbury Announces School Sponsorship And Student Awards

shaftesbury films incLeading creator, producer and distributor Shaftesbury has announced a renewed sponsorship commitment to the Toronto District School Board’s Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA). As part of its ongoing support of the school, Shaftesbury will donate $30,000 over the next three years to the ESA Film program. Shaftesbury has also announced winners in the inaugural Shaftesbury Student Filmmaker Awards, in order to recognize achievement at each grade level of the ESA Film program. The awards were announced at ESA on Thursday, May 17 by The Listener’s Ennis Esmer (Season 3 premieres May 30 on CTV). Read the rest of this entry »

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25th May 2012

ScribbleLive Works With The Associated Press To Launch A New Era Of Live Journalism

scribbleliveScribbleLive is pleased to announce the release of the ScribbleLive Advanced Content Module (ACM). ACM is the first product emerging from collaboration between ScribbleLive and The Associated Press (AP) to create better tools for real-time journalism. Read the rest of this entry »

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25th May 2012

New Partnership For Ontario Amber Alert Program

Missing Children Society of CanadaThe dissemination of time-sensitive information is critical when a child is believed to have been abducted.  The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) as the Provincial Coordinator of the Ontario AMBER Alert Program is pleased to announce a new partnership with The Missing Children’s Society of Canada (MCSC) today, International Missing Children’s Day. Read the rest of this entry »

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25th May 2012

Funcom Partners With NVIDIA To Bring The Secret World Graphics To The Next Level

funcomIndependent online games developer Funcom has announced that it is working closely with NVIDIA for Funcom’s upcoming modern-day massively multiplayer online game ‘The Secret World’. Funcom’s and NVIDIA’s engineering teams have been working together to make ‘The Secret World’ the most graphically advanced massively multiplayer online game ever to launch on the PC platform. Read the rest of this entry »

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25th May 2012

New Tool Will Engage More Canadians In The Search For Missing Children

missing kidsLate yesterday, on the eve of International Missing Children’s Day, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection is launched a new service called MissingKidsALERT and released preliminary results from first-of-its kind research into Canada’s abducted and murdered children.  An initiative of MissingKids.ca, MissingKidsALERT is a new public notification service that allows Canadians to sign up to receive geographically targeted alerts through a variety of electronic platforms when a child in their community goes missing. Read the rest of this entry »

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24th May 2012

New iOS App Gives Canadians Access To Health And Safety Information On The Go

Health and Safety WatchHealth & Safety Watch has introduced a new app for Apple devicesto help Canadians stay on top of recalls, advisories and health warnings. Health & Safety Watch designed the app to provide a simple point of reference for users to check everything from boil water advisories and local disease outbreaks to consumer product and food recalls. Read the rest of this entry »

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24th May 2012

Birks Canadian Diamond Awards Presented At 2012 Cannes Film Festival

birksCanada’s leading luxury jeweller Birks presented the first Birks Canadian Diamond, an award celebrating individuals whose professional accomplishments allow Canada to shine beyond our country’s frontiers, last night during the Cannes Film Festival. The Birks Canadian Diamond’s first recipients, actresses Emily Hampshire and Sarah Gadon, were awarded during Telefilm Canada‘s inaugural Tribute To Canadian Talent press event and reception. Read the rest of this entry »

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24th May 2012

Merlin Entertainments Announces Plans For LEGOLAND Discovery Centre

mini-orbyGlobal leisure giant Merlin Entertainments (Merlin), the world’s second biggest visitor attraction operator, announced today plans to build the company’s first ever attraction in Canada – a $12M LEGOLAND Discovery Centre (LDC).  It will open in spring 2013 at Vaughan Mills, one of the Greater Toronto Area’s (GTA) premier shopping and entertainment destinations, owned and operated by Ivanhoé Cambridge. Read the rest of this entry »

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24th May 2012

Canadian Bollywood Filmmaker Roger Nair Awarded Queen’s Medal For Human Rights Work

movie orbyRoger Nair, a Canadian Filmmaker, (Bollywood as well as Hollywood) was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his work on Human Rights and attended the Military Muster with Their Royal Highnesses Prince Charles and Camilla along with the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Loretta Harper at Fort York in Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »

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24th May 2012

Book Launch – Innovation Reinvented: Six Games that Drive Growth

Orby ReadsThe launch of Innovation Reinvented, a book by Roger Miller and Marcel Côté and published by the University of Toronto Press, took place at the École de technologie supérieure at noon today. Innovation is essential for businesses and economies to thrive in the long run, but there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ strategy for innovating successfully. Read the rest of this entry »

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