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The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has announced the latest recipients of the prestigious Trudeau Fellowship prize.  Each prize is worth $225,000. Trudeau Fellowships are awarded to individuals who set themselves apart through research achievements, creativity and commitment to critical social issues of importance to Canada. The four new 2011 Trudeau Fellows are based in Vancouver, Kingston, Toronto and Montreal, with backgrounds in political science, conflict resolution, history and Muslim and women’s studies. Read the rest of this entry »

Astral’s Harold Greenberg Fund‘s English-Language Program (Fund) and Planet in Focus have announced that SCORE: A Hockey Musical (SCORE) was selected as the recipient of the inaugural Planet in Focus Green Screen Award. The Award was announced during the 12^thAnnual Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival. This innovative award is the first of its kind in Canada, designed to highlight how film and television industry professionals are putting environmental awareness into action through greener production practices. Read the rest of this entry »

What do Degrassi: The Next Generation and Life with Derek have in common? These popular Canadian programs were both recipients of the Shaw Rocket Prize, an annual $50,000 prize awarded to the best independently-produced Canadian children’s program.

As part of the Shaw Rocket Fund, the Prize is presented each year to a Canadian children’s, youth, or family program and its associated digital content, voted for by children across the country. This is the seventh year for the Prize, supporting the production of high-quality Canadian children’s programming since 1998. Read the rest of this entry »

Congratulations to all of the nominees for the inaugural Canadian Game Talent Awards, which will be presented in Montreal on November 2nd. A gala closing to the Montreal International Game Summit, the Canadian Game Talent Awards are designed to honour the very talented and creative artists and engineers who have a part in developing the great games our Canadian interactive entertainment studios are known for.

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Software company OpenText has been selected a Top 100 Employer in Canada by editors of Canada’s Top 100 Employers project for the 2012 competition. OpenText was also named in mid-September as a Top Employer for Young People in a special category of the Canada’s Top 100 Employers recognition for the second year in a row. Read the rest of this entry »

As many of you already know, Goldtooth Creative’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution CG Director’s Cut video game trailer has been voted as the top trailer of all time by users at GameTrailers.com. Goldtooth Creative president and creative director Kody Sabourin directed the award-winning trailer.

Responsible for the Deus Ex: Human Revolution trailer campaign, Goldtooth contributed four high-resolution CG trailers, 10 game trailers, two TV spots and three viral live-action spots along with 60 minutes of in-game cinematics. Goldtooth Creative’s Paul Furminger also directed the video game’s live-action opening credit sequence. Read the rest of this entry »

The winners from this year’s IndieCade Festival have been announced. Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees who were among the chosen few for 2011, but especially to our Canadian developers who were recognized with awards:

Best in Show went to FEZ by Polytron Corp. and the Best Visuals award went to Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP – Superbrothers, Capybara Games, Jim Guthrie.

Other Canadian nominees were:

Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure by Untold Entertainment
superHYPERCUBE by Game Dev Collective Kokoromi
The Depths to Which I Sink – Bigpants

Congratulations to the legal, technology, educational and financial firms who play a part in the innovative and creative side of the Canadian economy as developers, innovators, service providers, educators, mentors and event sponsors, as well as to the government agencies whose services also provide support for the things we do. Special congratulations to Digital Extremes and Next Level Games for representing the interactive entertainment sector.

To learn more about the Top 100 process, you are invited to attend the annual conference for the Canada’s Top 100 Employers Project, which takes place on November 28-29, 2011 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. At the conference you will hear from world-class speakers and the winners of the Canada’s Top 100 Employers competition — all hand-picked by the Mediacorp editorial team to bring you the latest thinking on becoming an employer-of-choice. Read the rest of this entry »

Recognizing and rewarding some of Canada’s most successful small businesses, eBay Canada has crowned Myriam Barreiro of Toronto as eBay Canada’s 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year. With projected revenue of nearly $1-million this year, Myriam is dedicated to selling brand name camera and video equipment at discounted prices online. In late 2008 Myriam left her career in banking to focus on her eBay business full-time and hasn’t looked back. This year’s awards program also recognizes an entrepreneur who provides unique and personalized customer service and one who is new to the eBay marketplace. Read the rest of this entry »

End to end data driven communication and supply chain solutions provider Contac Services Inc. is the recipient of the Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC) 2011 CATA Innovation Through Technology Award recently presented at the CAMSC Annual Business Achievement Awards Gala held at Toronto’s Royal York Hotel. This prestigious award is presented to an Aboriginal or Minority-owned business for demonstrating innovation in a technology-based product or service. Contac has invested heavily in recent years to create world-class supply-chain solutions by way of its Web Store Front Procurement Platforms.  These custom branded web sites are being deployed by small, medium and large scale enterprises throughout Canada and soon on a North America and Global basis. Read the rest of this entry »