The Capital One™ Just For Laughs Comedy Tour is back – and this year’s Relationship Edition has issues. Host and former Last Comic Standing winner John Heffron leads a star-studded line-up that includes Canada’s sweetheart, Debra DiGiovanni, returning tour favourite Godfrey, and a pair of very special guests in SNL alum Jim Breuer and The Marriage Ref’s Tom Papa. Breuer will headline the tour through Western and Central Canada, with Papa assuming the duties for the Maritime shows. Read the rest of this entry »
Bluedrop Performance Learning Inc. has announced the grand opening of the Bluedrop Training and Simulation Centre (BTSC), in Halifax. This state of the art facility is designed to host and develop some of the world’s most advanced training and simulation technologies to address the operational and maintenance needs in civil and military aviation, as well as army and naval domains. Read the rest of this entry »
The BCIC-New Ventures Competition started with 146 companies and has now narrowed the field to ten finalist start-up technology companies that will pitch for $235,000 in cash and prizes. This year’s top ten includes companies from Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island featuring new technologies in the IT, life sciences, and cleantech sectors. Read the rest of this entry »
Snowed In Studios, an Ottawa-based video game and interactive media developer, has launched its in-development PC building-block RPG Windforge, on the Steam Greenlight platform. With the launch comes the release of an anticipated gameplay trailer showing pre-Alpha footage of the game. Read the rest of this entry »