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The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) has officially marked the beginning of Global Entrepreneurship Week Canada 2011 – seven days committed to celebrating entrepreneurs and inspiring young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity from coast to coast to coast. Read the rest of this entry »

District 86 Toastmasters, which is affiliated with Toastmasters International, is pleased to announce that Galaxy Toastmasters, a new Toastmasters Club, will be holding its blast off meeting on Monday, November 21st at the Dundas Legion Hall at 280 King Street West, Dundas, ON.  The meeting will begin at 7:00pm sharp and last for two hours. Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa’s Rove will be offering demonstrations of its award-winning mobile IT management solution, Mobile Admin, to CA Technologies users during CA World 2011, which opens today at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Mobile Admin supports CA Service Desk Manager on Blackberry devices, iOS devices for iPhone and iPad and Android smartphones and tablets. Read the rest of this entry »

From November 13^th to December 18^th, Nintendo Canada is inviting fans to meet Mario™ as he makes his way across Canada to showcase his latest games. Be among the first to play the new Super Mario™ 3D Land and Mario Kart™ 7 games on the Nintendo 3DS™ system, and receive your very own souvenir photo with Mario himself. Read the rest of this entry »

TEDxVancouver is excited to announce that recently noted refugee and immigration activist Jose Figueroa will be speaking at today’s Tedx Vancouver event. Figueroa, who has been in Canada since 1997, was once a youth member of the University Student Union that was supportive of the FMLN political wing in El Salvador, which has recently been categorized as a “terrorist” organization. Fleeing El Salvador with his wife, Jose was a peaceful student having never taken part in any attacks or fighting between the guerrillas and oppressive government forces. Read the rest of this entry »

On the eve of Remembrance Day, 2,100 attendees, including members of the Canadian Forces, corporate and community leaders, and politicians gathered at the Allstream Centre for True Patriot Love’s 3^rdannual Tribute Dinner, to recognize the sacrifices of members of the Canadian Forces and their families, raising more than $2.6M in the process. Read the rest of this entry »

Info-Tech Research Group’s 2^ndAnnual Quest for Canada’s Smartest IT campaign celebrates the work of mid-market IT departments whose smart use of technology has impacted innovation and productivity in Canada at their gala event this month. While countless reports point to threats to Canadian productivity and innovation, The Quest has once again gone coast to coast to recognize organizations that serve as a model for technology use that rewards businesses, communities and the planet.  Read the rest of this entry »

GamerCamp Level 3 is coming to Toronto’s Bathurst Street Theatre (and other various venues around Toronto) on November 25th-27th, and this is shaping to be the event’s biggest – and possibly best – festival to date (at least until Level 4). The full GamerCamp Schedule and Speaker Bios are now online. This year’s keynote speaker will be Seth Cooper, Chief Architect and Lead Designer of Foldit, a membrane-folding puzzle game that made international headlines when its players solved, in less than three weeks, a key mechanism in HIV that had stumped scientists for over ten years. Seth’s Friday morning presentation is sure to be inspiring. 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 »

Family Channel makes its mark with Canadian students as it launches its ninth annual Bullying Awareness Week (November 14-20). This year the campaign, entitled What’s Up, Stand UP! features a special programming event, beginning at 4:00 p.m. ET/PT on Monday, November 14, along with bullying-themed programming throughout the week and new original content. In addition, Family will hold two online chats during the week giving kids the opportunity to discuss bullying-related topics with trained professionals and Family stars. Full details of the special schedule are available on Family’s Channel’s Bullying Awareness page. Read the rest of this entry »