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The Quebecor Fund Board of Directors is pleased to announce the names of the production companies and distributors whose projects will receive third-round funding under the Event and Film Production Assistance Program (EFPAP), following January 9, 2012 submissions. A total of $785,000 in funding will be shared between the selected producers and distributors. Read the rest of this entry »

With less than a week to go before nominations close, there are a few cities that have not yet fielded a candidate for the Great Places in Canada contest. There are 57 nominations so far that have collectively received over 18,000 votes. If your nomination wins, you’re eligible for some great prizes which include Via Rail vouchers, gift cards from Mountain Equipment Co-Op and Roots Canada, and a write up in WestJet’s inflight up! magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

Avanade, a business technology solutions and managed services provider, has released its report, Dispelling Six Myths of Consumerization of IT, based on a survey of more than 600 senior business and IT leaders conducted in 17 countries. The report challenges commonly held beliefs about the consumerization of IT — including executive perspectives on Millennials as the driving force, employee brand preferences, and hesitance of business leaders to embrace the trend.

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The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, has announced that the Québec Film and Television Council (QFTC) has been granted financial assistance to promote Quebec on foreign markets as a world-class hub of cinematographic and television production. Read the rest of this entry »

Kudos Inc. has announced the establishment of its Advisory Board, which is comprised of four recognized leaders in technology and organizational management. Launched in October 2011, the innovative employee engagement system allows team members and management to acknowledge one another for any act, effort or attitude that supports their culture, values or objectives, and has recently caught the attention of organizations around the world looking to improve their employee engagement. Read the rest of this entry »

Talent Technology Corporation, providers of Talemetry™, a leading talent generation solution for corporate HR and recruitment agencies announced today the results to their latest survey of recruitment professionals, releasing their annual State of Recruiting Survey Results and Infographic. Finding good candidates remains the #1 recruiting challenge for organizations; the more specific and higher skilled the job requirements, the harder to find qualified candidates.  Read the rest of this entry »

Advertising platform for media publishers AdPerfect has announced its partnership with Oregon company Pre1 Software, a full-service front-end classified system. The Pre1 and AdPerfect partnership offers their mutual customers free and sophisticated integration of Pre1’s SmartPublisher with AdPerfect’s Classified Advertising Solution. Read the rest of this entry »

Zylog Systems (Ottawa) Ltd has been selected as a Vendor of Record (VOR) for the Government of Ontario in both task-based and solutions-based information and information technology services. The Ontario Government allows qualified organizations to apply to become a VOR every three years. Gaining this status allows broader public sector organizations, including municipalities and services organizations, to approach the vendors directly in a three bid system. Read the rest of this entry »

Fresh from the successful first edition of its So You Want To Be An Artist contest, which last year attracted more than 120 participants, some 50,000 visitors to the makeart.gallery.ca website and 20,000 votes, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) is once again inviting youth aged 16 to 19 from across the country to express their creative side through the visual arts, and submit their artworks. Read the rest of this entry »

Seccuris and SaskTel have announced a partnership to develop an Information Assurance Portal (IAP) which will provide a comprehensive set of information security services to small and mid-enterprise business customers in Saskatchewan, and across Canada. Read the rest of this entry »