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Speaking at the Canada 3.0 Digital Media Forum, the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, challenged Canadian industry to take risks, invest, think creatively and act boldly to ensure Canada’s success in the global digital economy. Read the rest of this entry »

Via Interactive Ontario: OMDC is now accepting applications for the 2012/13 cycle of the OMDC Export Fund – Interactive Digital Media. The Export Fund is an excellent opportunity for interactive content producers to get significant financial support to attend conferences, undertake sales trips and participate in trade missions. The Export Fund can help grow your business by assisting with the cost of travel, accomodations, conference fees and marketing materials for up to 5 business development-related events. Read the rest of this entry »

Over the past year, Canada has put new regulations in place to bring government agencies up to speed with international Web accessibility guidelines. As a result, all Canadian government websites must now be in compliance with Common Look and Feel standards or CLF. HiSoftware Inc., a US-based provider of content aware compliance and security solutions, today announced it has released a new out-of-box checkpoint group to allow Canadian government agencies to monitor and enforce CLF standards on both public-facing websites and intranets. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), in collaboration with Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), has developed an online DNS Checker to screen users’ computers for the DNSChanger malware. Read the rest of this entry »

Telefilm Canada is pleased to announce that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has officially recognized Telefilm’s new private donation fund as a Certified Independent Production Fund. Examples of other endorsed funds include the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Le Fonds Harold Greenberg, and the Canada Media Fund (CMF). Read the rest of this entry »

PwC is launching new research to see if Canadians are ready to receive more services and information electronically through their phones, computers and tablet devices. The project, called Citizen Compass, began April 18, 2012 and invites the public to participate, in either a survey format or an idea forum to make suggestions or discuss issues. Read the rest of this entry »

TELUS World of Science in Edmonton is getting a facelift that will boost tourism and create jobs and growth throughout Alberta, thanks to support from the Government of Canada. This was announced today by the Honourable Laurie Hawn, Member of Parliament (Edmonton Centre), on behalf of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages. Read the rest of this entry »

Kevin O’Leary joined Canada’s Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, today to make a big announcement for the country’s startup and venture investing community. Canada’s startup visa, if implemented, will create highly skilled jobs and bring much-needed capital into Canada’s startup sector. Read the rest of this entry »

Recognizing the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship as a driver of the Canadian economy, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney launched consultations today on whether to create a new and specialized program to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced the 2012-2013 Performance Envelope allocations (PDF) to its website. On April 3 2012, 62 English broadcasters shared $182 million and 29 French broadcasters $89 million in envelope allocations for use in the 2012-2013 fiscal year. CBC got the lion’s share with over $61.3 million total funding, followed by CTV at $17.2 million and YTV at $15.2 million. Maybe if Global had gotten more than the $9.6 million it did, and Showcase had gotten more than the $8.4 million it did, Endgame would still be in production. I am curious as to how much of this funding is actually used on original Canadian programming, and how much is used to import shows from other countries. Can anyone answer this for me? Read the rest of this entry »