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The governments of Canada and British Columbia have released the Small Business Profile 2011 (PDF), a report that highlights the major role that small businesses play in BC’s economic success, through job creation, wage increases, exports and contributions to the province’s gross domestic product. Read the rest of this entry »

Black Box and Electronic Arts Inc. have announced that Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) and Sean Faris (Vampire Diaries) will star in the upcoming action racing game Need for Speed™ The Run. The video game will feature the actors as lead characters in an intense race-for-your-life story taking players on a cross-country race from San Francisco to New York. Powered by Frostbite™ 2, Black Box Studio makes its return and takes the action racing genre to new heights with stunning visuals and car physics that hug the road at insanely fast speeds. Read the rest of this entry »

There will be a hands-on, classroom based training session for businesses or organizations wanting to learn about and how to effectively use Social Media to tell their story and help grow their business being held in North Langley on October 26th.

By the end of the day, you’ll be fully set up on Google Places, have your own Facebook Business page, Twitter account, YouTube Channel, LinkedIn profile and learn how to manage it. Over 60 local businesses are now seeing their business grow through Social Media.

The seminar will be taught by Jonathan Christian of WeMakeStuffHappen.com, and costs $397.00 per person plus HST. Your seminar fee includes great snacks, beverages, lunch, a detailed workbook and a certificate of graduation. Attendees will need to bring their laptop or tablet, power cord and an open mind. Please see the event web page for full details on location and registration.

Fulucai Productions Ltd. has entered into an agreement with its President, James Durward, whereby FuLu has acquired all rights to the intellectual property known as “All the Wrong Reasons” as registered with the Writer’s Guild of America Registration Number 1533357. The Production is based on a feature-length movie script that was written by James Durward. Read the rest of this entry »

Big Blue Bubble Inc. announced today that Burn the Rope Worlds HD has come to the big screen and is now available on the iPad.  Burn the Rope Worlds HD follows in the footsteps of the original game with 100 more levels, four different and exciting worlds, and a brand new mini-game called Endless Burn. In this new game, the player can experience the fun by travelling to new and exotic places like the Jungle, Mechanical, Fantasy, and Space worlds. Read the rest of this entry »

Today Funcom kicks off Week of the Dragon – a full week of focus on the Dragon secret society. Throughout the week, all eyes will be on the chaotic and secretive Dragon society, one of three secret societies represented in the upcoming, modern-day MMO ‘The Secret World’. Which secret society are you? Sign up for the beta and join a secret society by taking the initiation test. Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media Inc. has announced that its subsidiary, Ortsbo Inc. has launched a proprietary real time multi-language plug-in for WordPress, allowing blogs to be instantly translated, in real time, into over 50 languages. Over 300 Million people each month read over 2.5 Billion blog pages created through WordPress, the world’s leading blogging software. To date, there have been over 225 Million downloads of WordPress plug-ins globally. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) is pleased to welcome Medicine Hat College’s Entrepreneur Development Centre to its network of community partners. To celebrate Medicine Hat College’s support for youth entrepreneurship and commitment to working with CYBF, an official partnership launch will be held on Monday, October 17^th, from 8:00-10:00 a.m. at the Medicine Hat College – Courtyard Room, 299 College Drive SE, Medicine Hat. Breakfast will be served. Read the rest of this entry »

The Funding Portal Inc. has closed an angel financing round with Societal Ventures Corporation, an Ottawa-based investor. The Funding Portal is a national bilingual portal that was launched in July 2011 to improve access to the Canadian public funding marketplace. Its unique proprietary search engine, TFP Search™, allows business, university and other applicants to find public funding programs from the Portal’s database of over 2,000 federal, provincial and municipal programs representing an estimated $16B in public grants, contributions and tax incentives. Applicants also have access to the Portal’s national roster of professionals to assist with all aspects of their funding applications. Read the rest of this entry »

Parks Canada and the Cineplex network are joining forces on Sunday November 13th for an outstanding screening on two of the most beautiful, overlooked national parks in Canada: Tuktut Nogait, a park located north of the Arctic Circle inhabited by a population of caribou, and Pukaskwa, a park of mesmerizing beauty on the shores of Lake Superior.

The wide-screen projection of these two short films by Oasis HD will be accompanied by an online exchange session on Twitter between spectators in the theatre and Parks Canada specialists. The films are in English, but this exchange can be carried out in the preferred official language of the participants. Read the rest of this entry »