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Corus Entertainment’s W Network announced today that interior designer and TV personality, Jillian Harris (The Bachelorette Season V, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) will co-host Love It or List It Vancouver. Harris’ co-host will be announced at a later date. Produced by Big Coat Productions in association with W Network, the west coast spin-off of W Network’s hit series Love It or List It starring Hilary Farr and David Visentin has been greenlit and is scheduled to launch in winter 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian toy manufacturer Round 5 Corporation (Round 5) in partnership with licensing agents Studio Licensing Inc and Established Brands Inc., announces multi-year exclusive licensing agreement to manufacture and produce certain categories of toys under the popular Cut The Rope brand. Read the rest of this entry »

Following the showing at E3 2012, Assassin’s Creed III takes to the frontier in a video walkthrough of one of the  demos shown at the conference last week. Commentated by creative director, Alex Hutchinson, the walkthrough of the frontier demo exemplifies the key pillars of the Assassin’s Creed franchise against the wild frontier setting demonstrating a slice of the massive open world scale of the Assassin’s Creed franchise.  Read the rest of this entry »

Bullying has become a major problem among First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth across Canada.  The National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO) recognizes the impact of bullying on Aboriginal youth, and therefore, has created a web site to provide information to them, their parents and teachers. Read the rest of this entry »

The idea of living in a cashless society is gaining considerable momentum in Canada. A new survey conducted on behalf of PayPal Canada by Leger Marketing shows that 71 per cent of Canadians are comfortable with never having to handle cash to make a purchase, up 27 per cent from 2011. In fact, many Canadians are already embracing this shift – a full quarter (25 per cent) of survey respondents go more than a week without using cash. Read the rest of this entry »

Seevibes, a Montreal-based provider of social TV audience measurement, is seizing the opportunity of the Banff World Media Festival to inaugurate Seevibes TV Ratings. This service allows users to view the ratings of Canadian TV shows via the experience viewers share on social media. Seevibes offers broadcasters and media professionals exclusive data on the television audience to help them valorize their TV programming and optimize their cross-media ad campaigns. Read the rest of this entry »

Responding to an increasing need for digital content knowledge, Agility has taken its previous blog to new levels with the launch of Unbound Media. Geared towards the media industry – specifically publishing – Unbound Media is chock-full of current and relevant resources. This non-traditional blog is rich with visuals, videos and expert tips, offering its audience a plethora of news from the digital front. Unbound Media provides a comprehensive, progressive and refreshing take on managing online content. Read the rest of this entry »

FrostByte Media Inc. and Entertainment One have announced their joint venture as the Canadian market DVD and music distributors of XII Tribes Entertainment’s TV drama series SIGNS, the XII Tribes Entertainment (XIITE) production is distributed by Panini Media and is at the 2012 Banff World Media Festival. The TV show is a drama series created by Michel Zgarka, produced by Albert Sagales, directed by Randy Bradshaw and starring, among others, Ysé Brisson and Natacha Reigner, most of whom will be in attendance at the festival. Read the rest of this entry »

iPipeline®, a Pennsylvania-based on-demand software developer that supports marketing, selling, and processing solutions for the nation’s top insurance carriers, distributors and agents, today announced the appointment of Jeff Houston, Canadian Insurance Veteran, to the position of Director of Business Development, Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Teradici has announced the availability of PCoIP Firmware Release 4.0.0. In addition to certification with VMware View™ versions 5.0.1 and 5.1, this release includes a refreshed user interface, enhanced image quality settings on the zero client and support for certificate checking when connecting to a VMware View Connection Server. Read the rest of this entry »