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Ottawa Festivals is extremely pleased to announce an exciting partnership with FaveQuest to help event organizers harness the power of social media and mobile phones. Through this partnership, Ottawa Festivals members will be able to access FaveQuest’s MyEventApps mobile app service at a substantial discount enabling event organizers to have their own engaging mobile apps for iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android and Blackberry devices at an affordable price. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Cinema Editors is honoured to announce the nominees for the 2012 C.C.E. Awards, to be held on May 17th at The Capitol Event Theatre in Toronto. The C.C.E. Awards Gala is the largest event hosted by the organization, focusing on the significance of post-production in cinema. Read the rest of this entry »

SHOP.CA, one of the largest online shopping destinations ever created specifically for the Canadian consumer, has announced its partnership with credit and debit card processor Moneris Solutions^®, who will provide e-commerce payment processing services for SHOP.CA’s sophisticated and powerful transaction platform. Read the rest of this entry »

TVO has announced the official launch of the Mental Health Matters website that will be the online home for Mental Health Matters Week, an initiative of TVO in association with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)to inform and engage Ontarians in issues of mental health and addiction. Read the rest of this entry »

Roaring Penguin Software Inc., the email filtering experts, makers of the acclaimed CanIt-PRO, CanIt-Domain-PRO, CanIt Archiver and Hosted CanIt anti-spam and email archiving solutions, announce the release of CanIt 8.1. Read the rest of this entry »

This article was written by Ananamoose and originally published on GuildMag – it has been reposted here with Rhonda’s permission. 

If you are a part of the Guild Wars 1 community (and even if you are not) you have probably heard about GWEN. No, not the Mesmer in Eye of the North. I’m talking about the Gaming World Entertainment Network!

GWEN is an online radio station that is also affiliated with Gamers Giving Back. Both organizations are run by the same person, M A L I B U Barbie, or Rhonda as she is known here on Earth. She has been running these organizations since January 2010. Her mission is to prove the stereotype of gamers wrong. We aren’t just sitting at home staring at a screen, we have big hearts and we are active in giving back to the world. Read the rest of this entry »

The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and Access Copyright announced yesterday that they have negotiated a model licence that will allow universities to reproduce copyright-protected materials in both print and digital formats. Read the rest of this entry »

Paul Mercs Concerts is pleased to present the Canadian tour dates for Video Games Live.  Created and produced by industry veteran and world-famous video game composer Tommy Tallarico, Video Games Live is an immersive concert event featuring music from the greatest video games of all time. Read the rest of this entry »

Bell Media announced today that it has ordered the 60-episode, 30-minute pop culture docu-series Style Bio (working title) for E! and FashionTelevisionChannel from the Gemini Award-nominated, Calgary-based Pyramid Productions. The entertaining new series, set to premiere in June, tells the chronological style stories of today’s hottest stars, from their humble beginnings to their sparkling A-list red carpet looks. The series begins production in Calgary and Toronto this month. Read the rest of this entry »

Frima Studio announced today that it has teamed up with the acclaimed concept artist and art director Stephan Martiniere to strengthen the art direction and concept art development practice at Volta and Frima FX, divisions of Frima Studio. Read the rest of this entry »