Village Gamer

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) applauds the Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of National Revenue, for her latest effort to reduce the impact of the “taxman” on Canada’s small businesses. Earlier this morning, Minister Shea held a joint roundtable with CFIB in Toronto to hear from small business owners on what the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is doing right and wrong. CFIB’s recent report card on the CRA’s Call Centre Business Helpline, released during Canada’s annual Red Tape Awareness Week^TM in January, gave the agency a C- on its performance. While accountability of CRA agents has improved, service standards and agent professionalism have declined. Read the rest of this entry »

ACL, the Vancouver company that is transforming audit and risk, announced today the expansion of its mobile audit and compliance management product offering with the launch of ACL™ Workpapers for the iPad. ACL Workpapers for iOS, an extension of the ACL Workpapers cloud-based audit and compliance management system, is available for iPhone® and iPad® as a free download on the iTunes App Store. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has announced the launch of The Infamy, the first episode in the three-part Assassin’s Creed® III The Tyranny of King Washington downloadable content series for the Xbox 360®, PlayStation®3 and Windows® PC. In the first episode of The Tyranny of King Washington, our hero, Ratonhnhaké:ton, awakens from an unsettling dream to find, despite his efforts to deliver justice in the newly founded United States of America, that a new king has been crowned: George Washington. The Infamy takes gamers through the beginning of the journey to dethrone this new king. Read the rest of this entry »