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The Canadian Cinema Editors 2012 Awards by Deluxe is celebrating its second year with a sold out event on May 17, 2012 at the Capitol Event Theatre in Toronto. With the editor nominees representing the best in Canadian film and television, the C.C.E. will present awards with the help of actors from some of the work represented. Bomb Girls John Ralston, Karen Waddell and Sebastian Pigott, Rookie Blue’s Gregory Smith and Degrassi’s Jordan Todsey and Munro Chambers will join host Mark Sanders, Canada AM’s film critic Richard Crouse and Canadian Society of Cinematographer’s Susan Saranchuk as presenters. Read the rest of this entry »

Star Trek Live, a new interactive stage performance from CBS Consumer Products and Montreal’s Mad Science^® Productions, will make its debut at the Ontario Science Centre on June 2, 2012. Based on the popular science-fiction franchise, the performance takes audiences on an exhilarating 30-minute journey offering an unforgettable live theatrical experience for fans of all ages. The show combines fun special effects, audience interaction and an exploration of real space-age technology. Read the rest of this entry »

PLAY! A Video Game Symphony, the highly acclaimed concert series featuring music from blockbuster video games and performed by some of the finest, world-class orchestras and choirs, will be performing at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary on May 18 and 19. Read the rest of this entry »

Best Buy is teaming up with nine stores in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto to help collect and recycle the several pounds of electronic waste that are accumulated in Canadian homes each year. Local residents are encouraged to drop off their used or unwanted personal electronics for free and safe recycling at one of the participating stores for Best Buy’s Tech it Away event. Everyone who drops off electronics to be recycled at any of the participating store locations will be entered for a chance to win a $1,000 Best Buy gift card. One gift card is available to be won at each of the nine stores. Read the rest of this entry »

“Is it the weekend yet?”… “Time flies!” … “There aren’t enough hours in a day!” – these are all phrases we hear often, and sometimes say ourselves. But what if time didn’t exist? What if we lived in a world free of alarm clocks, appointment times, and calendars? Read the rest of this entry »

Now in its ninth year, SES Toronto, the global Internet marketing education and training event being held June 11-13, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Toronto, offers Canadian Internet marketers two brand new specific Canadian panel sessions. Conquering the Growing Canadian Affiliate Marketing Industry will examine the growing retail merchant channel and how to accommodate Canadian affiliate partnerships. Made in Canada: Marketing Online Worldwide will focus on how to balance Canadian and American content challenges and compete in the U.S. market as a Canadian business and not lose your Canadian online presence. Read the rest of this entry »

The 2012 Research Money Conference will take a hard look at the new innovation policies that emerge from the federal budget. Today and tomorrow at the Minto Suites in Ottawa, some of Canada’s leading innovation thinkers and practitioners will look beyond the money and assess the overall impact on future business success in Canada’s knowledge economy.  Read the rest of this entry »

328 of the brightest minds in Canada speed-networked their way to setting the newest Guinness World Record in the Most People Attending a Business Speed Networking Event – Single Venue category at the Discovery 12 conference hosted by Ontario Centres of Excellence. Read the rest of this entry »

Espial, an Ottawa-based on-demand TV software and solutions provider has announced that its Head of Browser Products, Dilshan De Silva, and Espial TV Browser Product Marketer, Peter Hutchins, will present and moderate a panel discussion, respectively, at the 2012 Smart TV Summit June 6-7 in San Francisco. Organized by the Smart TV Insider, the Smart TV Summit helps leading industry groups including content owners, broadcasters, consumer manufacturers, and regulators explore new business models and partnerships to maximize viewer engagement across connected TV platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada’s .CA turns 25 years old today. It was on this day in 1987 that the .CA top-level domain was officially delegated by Jon Postel, operator of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), to John Demco at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Demco and a group of volunteers ran the registry for 13 years. Since 2000, the registry for .CA domain names has been run by the Ottawa-based Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). Read the rest of this entry »