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Are you a digital media or gaming professional seeking to advance your skills or launch new gaming projects? Ryerson University’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, in partnership with Interactive Ontario, now offers courses for digital professionals seeking to advance in the fields of gaming and digital media development. From project and human resources management to entrepreneurial finance, behaviour, and strategy, the EDGE: Education for Digital Games Entrepreneurs program will deliver the expertise and training digital professionals and entrepreneurs need to advance in a dynamic and growing industry. Read the rest of this entry »

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) has released the second edition of a report from the Deloitte Global Center for Corporate Governance, Women In The Boardroom: A Global Perspective, which examines the legislative efforts being pursued across 17 countries to encourage more women to serve on listed company boards. Read the rest of this entry »

Golden Girl Finance Inc., one of Canada’s most innovative and modern source for financial literacy – with a feminine spin – is pleased to announce its partnership with another innovative, female-founded company, and one of the leaders in the financial services education industry, The Knowledge Bureau. Through this partnership, Golden Girl Finance aims to inspire more women towards pro-active management of their personal and family wealth, as well as incite interest and excitement towards careers in finance. Read the rest of this entry »

Start-up companies in Halton Region will be networking and drawing inspiration from other entrepreneurs, supporters and funders when Entrepreneur Week in the Region gets under way the week of November 14^th. Halton’s Entrepreneur Week is sponsored by the Region of Halton Small Business Centre, HalTech Regional Innovation Centre and Sheridan College, and all events will be held at Sheridan College’s Oakville campus at 1430 Trafalgar Road. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver Film School (VFS) has announced that the sixth annual Game Design Expo will be taking place on January 21-22, 2012. Game Design Expo is a unique weekend of presentations and networking, beginning with Industry Speaker Day on Saturday, January 21st. The full day of presentations will be followed by a special panel discussion focused on the local indie game scene.
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Spending on learning and development in Canada fell 13 per cent since 2008, and is down 40 per cent since its peak in the early 1990s, according to The Conference Board of Canada’s Learning and Development Outlook 2011: Are Organizations Ready for Learning 2.0. This is the 11^th edition of the Learning and Development Outlook, which summarizes the results of a biennial survey. Conducted between November 2010 and February 2011, the survey garnered responses from 183 Canadian organizations. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada’s universities are home to many “bright, young innovators” and much more needs to be done to help bring their ideas to market, Ryerson University President Sheldon Levy told the Economic Club of Canada in an address today. Saying “it’s young people who will produce the next wave of innovative ideas and intellectual property,” Levy told a sold-out room at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel that universities need to better educate young people on how to create their own businesses and take their innovations to market. Read the rest of this entry »

Interactive entertainment company Ludia Inc. has announced its plan to hire 100 new employees by the end of 2012. Located in the Old Montreal, the studio is currently experiencing a growing success on social networks and mobile platforms. This strong growth is fueled by big hits such as The Price Is Right^TM, Where’s Waldo?®, and Family Feud®. Read the rest of this entry »

Modulis, a Canadian Asterisk-based VoIP telephony solutions and installations is launching the Asterisk Advanced Training program in Canada starting in January 2012. Targeted at VoIP professionals and IT managers in corporations and governments, attendees will gain a thorough understanding of Asterisk and what it can do for their organization including how to install, configure, tune, and maintain a complete Asterisk PBX system. In addition they will be entitled to take the Digium Certified Asterisk Professional (dCAP) certification exam, allowing them to bring a new skill set to their career or organization. Read the rest of this entry »

Congratulations to the 8 finalists for this year’s Pitch 360, which will take place during Merging Media 2011 on October 28th at SFU Woodwards in Vancouver. The organizers received 3 times more entries than they did last year for the Merging Media 2011Pitch 360 and Masterclass when the deadline rolled in last week.

Cross-media development in our community has grown substantially across multiple media platforms, and they are pleased to present the eight projects chosen to battle it out for the Pitch 360 BC Film + Media $10,000 Award:

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