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Bell Media Digital celebrates the warmth and joy of the holiday season by bringing jolly ol’ St. Nick to life for children with an amazingly authentic, free, personalized video message from Magic Santa. The enchantment begins on November 20th when, for the fourth year in a row, parents and caregivers can quickly and easily enter information into the simple user interface to create and personalize a charming holiday message that magically includes a child’s name, photo and home town or province. Read the rest of this entry »

Ontario-based Cloudcor® has announced that global certificate authority provider Thawte will be a premier partner for UP 2011, a hybrid format Cloud Computing Conference taking place December 5 – 9, 2011 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. The conference will also be broadcast globally via the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »

Providing a platform for tech companies to collide and confer netted great results from Waterloo Region’s 8^th Annual Entrepreneur Week, held November 7th through11th. The event spawned follow-up deals, allowed start-ups to shine and enabled hundreds of entrepreneurs – from small, medium and large companies alike — to gather inspiration from tech gurus who have been there, done that. More than 1,500 people attended Entrepreneur Week events. Read the rest of this entry »

Article is a cross-post with the author’s blog bewareoftheleopard.ca

This past weekend the Documentary Organization of Canada – Toronto Chapter held docSHIFT Summit 2011, a conference with the purpose of educating and supporting documentary filmmakers who are looking to leverage their storytelling abilities and position themselves as the go-to people in this new and evolving marketplace. Read the rest of this entry »

After meeting and spending some time with Gene Simmons and family at the Hastings Racecourse this past summer, Rosanna Saraceno wanted nothing more than to share this amazing experience with her schoolmates at Vancouver Technical Secondary. With the help of Howard Blank, First Vice President of Variety, the Children’s Charity of B.C. and a friend of the Simmons-Tweed family, Nick and Sophie accepted this special request to address future leaders. One such leader is Rosanna Saraceno who became instant friends with Nick and Sophie. Read the rest of this entry »

Communitech has marked another year of progress with its Annual General Meeting, welcoming industry luminaries to its Board of Directors and honouring the 2011 Tech Impact Award winner, VeloCity. Read the rest of this entry »

For Funcom’s upcoming modern-day MMO The Secret World, this is the ‘Week of the Templars’ – an exciting event dedicated to the Templars secret society — where gamers are being served new screenshots, artworks, information, and a video related to the Templars. Funcom has previously dedicated a week to the Dragon secret society, and the Illuminati will get their week later. Read the rest of this entry »

Next season, visitors to Canada’s Wonderland will be transported back in time to periods between 245 million and 65 million years ago in one of the world’s largest animatronic dinosaur parks – Dinosaurs Alive!  More than 40 life-sized animatronic dinosaurs set in a seven acre outdoor Jurassic themed environment will make up this first class interactive exhibit. Read the rest of this entry »

On November 17^th, Dean Prevost, President of Allstream, will speak to members of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal (BTMM) and  esteemed members of the surrounding business community about IP Networking;  a method of B2B communication that continues to gain momentum in the marketplace. Read the rest of this entry »

Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network (PREVNet) is hosting an event at 9:00a.m. on Wednesday November 16th to showcase its work to provide easy online access to best practices in bullying and violence prevention. Sourced from Canada and around the world, these important on-line resources are being added to the Canadian Best Practices Portal and will address topics such as bullying, dating violence, child abuse, and elder abuse across rural, urban, and Aboriginal communities. Read the rest of this entry »