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Allan Gotlieb, Chairman of the Donner Canadian Foundation, today announced that the winner of the Donner Book Prize, the award for best book on public policy by a Canadian, will now receive $50,000 (up from $35,000).  The other shortlisted titles will now take home $7,500 (up from $5,000).  Mr. Gotlieb also announced the official Call for Submissions and Jury for the fourteenth annual Donner Prize. Read the rest of this entry »

Over the weekend of September 30th, more than 400 college and university students competed in the Great Canadian Appathon2, creating  a mobile game in under 48 hours. At the KPMG- sponsored Grand Finale on November 2nd, the top three teams showed off their games before a panel of judges. Read the rest of this entry »

Fuelled by pizza and energy drinks more than 400 students across Canada worked non-stop over the weekend of September 30th to develop 88 mobile games during the Great Canadian Appathon². Presented by XMG Studio and the National Post, the Great Canadian Appathon² gave students the opportunity to win over $50,000 in cash and prizes, get their game published and even win a chance at a job in the games industry at XMG Studio. Read the rest of this entry »

Ten young nature enthusiasts have been selected as finalists in the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation and Earth Day^®  Canada Art Contest, which invited elementary students to submit a drawing of their favourite part of nature.  Canadians now have the opportunity to help select the winner by voting for their favourite entry. Voting ends on November 11, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media and Dx3 Canada have announced a partnership to launch the “Intertainment Media Incubation Zone” (IMIZ) at the Dx3 Canada event on January 25^th & 26^th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The “IMIZ” will showcase some of Canada’s formalized Incubation Programs, with Ryerson’s DMZ, OCADU, the Impact Entrepreneurship Group and MEIC already confirmed as participants. The Zone will showcase the respective incubators and their members, culminating in a panel “pitch-off” for the chance to win a $20,000 prize of cash and professional services plus the opportunity to work with Intertainment Media for one year. Read the rest of this entry »

Beginning today, the third edition of the Get-Entrepreneurial Rally will enable you to discover and vote for the Quebec entrepreneur whose path is most inspiring. Organized by the Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Quebec (RCJEQ), this online contest helps promote new entrepreneurs from across Quebec. As part of National Entrepreneurship Day (NED), celebrated annually on November 16^th, it stimulates the entrepreneurial potential of Quebec residents aged 35 and under. It also gives youth the opportunity to explore entrepreneurship as a career choice through meetings with local entrepreneurs. Read the rest of this entry »

Best Buy Canada is opening a new store in Brossard, Quebec this weekend, with the celebrations beginning on Friday, November 4 at Quartier DIX30, 8480 Boulevard Leduc. Customers can line up to win a $1,000 Best Buy gift card each morning and a 3DTV giveaway will be held on Sunday. The new store will be the fifth in Canada to include a full musical instruments section. There are hundreds of different instruments available and a free music lesson with the purchase of an instrument. Read the rest of this entry »

Waygoz, the web-based game-swap service, has launched a new contest. The grand prize is a Call of Duty Xbox 360 and a role as the Call of Duty Evangelist on Waygoz.com. All users have to do is head over to the new Waygoz Facebook page, upload a Call of Duty related video or picture and tell Waygoz why they should be selected as the Call of Duty Expert. The contest is open now and closes November 7th. The winner will be announced November 8 2011.

If you haven’t yet heard of Waygoz, it’s a service that connects local gamers, allowing them to swap video games directly, bypassing the need for gamers to accept below market trade in values from traditional game retailers like GameStop, EB Games and Best Buy. Waygoz launched in beta in Toronto on October 23rd with plans to expand North American wide in 2012.

Canadian children are invited to get in the holiday spirit by showcasing their artistic talents to help children worldwide by entering the Pier 1 Imports /Owlkids/UNICEF Greeting Card Contest. Children ages 14 and under can draw, paint or colour a picture illustrating this year’s “Peace on Earth” theme to win exciting prizes and have their design featured as UNICEF’s official 2012 greeting card. Read the rest of this entry »

What do Degrassi: The Next Generation and Life with Derek have in common? These popular Canadian programs were both recipients of the Shaw Rocket Prize, an annual $50,000 prize awarded to the best independently-produced Canadian children’s program.

As part of the Shaw Rocket Fund, the Prize is presented each year to a Canadian children’s, youth, or family program and its associated digital content, voted for by children across the country. This is the seventh year for the Prize, supporting the production of high-quality Canadian children’s programming since 1998. Read the rest of this entry »