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Sam Girardin, CEO of Game On Audio is proud to announce the hiring of veteran Chuck Ghislandi as the new Motion and Animation Director. ‘’Adding Chuck to the team will allow Game On to continue growing the company’s motion capture division, which already has about ten games in production’’, says Mr. Girardin. Read the rest of this entry »

It was another bull’s eye for Vancouver-shot Arrow (pun intended) as 1.3 million viewers tuned in to its special CTV premiere Sunday night. Following its historic CTV Two debut Wednesday as the network’s most-watched series premiere on record (1.1 million viewers), Arrow delivered another million-plus audience to finish #4 for the night, behind only The Amazing Race (#1, 2.7 million viewers), Once Upon A Time (#2, 1.7 million viewers and another locally shot series) and The Mentalist (#3, 1.6 million viewers). Read the rest of this entry »

As the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (SJIWFF) kicks off its five-day festival with a screening of Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, Telefilm Canada and the Canada Media Fund are encouraging more Canadians to get out and experience great Canadian talent and film. The sold-out event is expected to attract more than 1,000 people this evening. Established in 1989, the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival attracts over 4,000 participants and aims to promote and support women filmmakers. Over a five-day period, the SJIWFF will present a powerful international program of short films, documentaries, and feature works. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, today announced the Harper Government’s intention to introduce legislation creating the Canadian Museum of History, the first in a series of measures on the road to Canada’s 150^thbirthday in 2017. In order to achieve this, the Harper Government plans to introduce amendments to the Museums Act to change the name and mandate of the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Minister Moore made the announcement at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in the presence of the Museum’s Board of Trustees, Museum staff, eminent Canadian historians, and members of historical associations from across Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite has announced Command Centre, which is designed to help organizations get the most value from their social media management. The HootSuite Command Centre is an offering that will let companies, especially large enterprises, command and control all of their social activity. Command Centre gives social media teams the ability to monitor, measure and react to all online activity in real-time.  Think of it as the “Situation Room” of a company, or if you prefer, as the command bridge of a company’s USS Enterprise. Read the rest of this entry »

Bill & Sons Towing, the ten?part comedic web series, is making its next stop on Apple devices as independent production company Ready, Set, Panic launches a dedicated app on the App Store. Bill & Sons Towing: The App brings users into the fictional and funny digital world of the father-­son towing company. The dysfunctional family at the heart of this series debuted on YouTube earlier this year, featuring the dark depravity of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia with the emotional heart of Modern Family. It stars Canadian Comedy Award-winning sketch troupe The Imponderables and a host of Canadian talent including Gemini Award-­winners Nicholas Campbell, Sonja Smits and Jayne Eastwood. Read the rest of this entry »

Thinkers50 and Rotman School of Management have launched a groundbreaking app that provides an encyclopedic look at one of the world’s most influential thinkers: The Don Tapscott iPad App: New Solutions for a Connected Planet. Rather than a book, best-selling author and new media theorist Tapscott has developed an interactive and evolving tool appropriate for the digital age. The app introduces Tapscott’s latest thinking on how we can rebuild 10 institutions including the corporation, government, science, education, the media, democracy and our systems for solving global problems.  As such it’s a pretty bold initiative – proposing ideas on how we can do nothing less than rebuild our civilization for the networked age. Read the rest of this entry »

A majority – almost 60% — of Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) say they intend to invest in their businesses within the next 12 months, according to a survey on investment intentions released today by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). Entrepreneurs say they plan to invest in Machinery & Equipment, Human Resources, working capital for marketing, and Information Technologies to increase their productivity. They also invest to create new products, develop new markets and increase production capacity. Read the rest of this entry »

A growing number of Canadian women are leaving the traditional workforce to join the emerging trend of female home-based entrepreneurs. Statistics Canada reports 951,600 self-employed women in Canada as of July 2012, up from 790,400 10 years ago. The agency says self-employment in Canada has grown as fast among women as it has among men in the past 20 years.  Even more recently in times of economic uncertainty, the rate of self-employed women has grown faster than men. In 2009, a year of downturn for the labour market, the number of self-employed women rose 5.4 percent from the year before, while the number of female employees overall fell 1.1 percent. Read the rest of this entry »

The countdown is on: there is less than one week left until TEDxVancouver‘s “Confluence” program at the Orpheum Theatre. Today, the organizing committee of TEDxVancouver is pleased to announce its complete roster of 14 speakers who will share, entertain and inspire with their messages revolving around Confluence. Speakers at TEDxVancouver are handpicked for their inspirational thinking, and in the TED tradition, each is challenged to offer their audience an idea worth sharing in “the talk of their life” in 18 minutes or less. Read the rest of this entry »