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The Canada Media Fund (CMF) congratulates all winners at the NUMIX Awards, which were presented yesterday evening at a gala held at Club Soda in Montréal. The NUMIX Awards recognize excellence in Québec-based multimedia productions and showcase the quality and creative talent of Québec’s digital media companies. The CMF, with its objective of promoting innovation in the digital media industry by providing financial support for productions with original content, was the event’s principal partner for the third consecutive year. Read the rest of this entry »

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has transformed into an industry-focused research and technology organization. The refocused NRC will work with Canadian industries to bridge technology gaps, helping build a more innovative Canadian economy. For close to 100 years, NRC has been the primary federal vehicle for R&D performer and has engaged the world’s most pressing challenges. In the past, NRC researchers have brought forward breakthrough inventions like radar, the black box (used by the aerospace industry and beyond), canola and a vaccine for meningitis to the world. Now, NRC is refocusing in order to better serve Canadian businesses, helping them to compete in the global marketplace against the world’s most innovative companies. Read the rest of this entry »

The 2013 Canadian Telecom Summit is pleased to announce that The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry and Minister of State (Agriculture), will address The Summit on Wednesday, June 5. Minister Paradis has spoken at our past two events; we are honoured to have him return to deliver the conference closing keynote speech this year. He joins a cadre of 70 industry leaders addressing Canada’s most important gathering of the information and communications technology industries. Read the rest of this entry »

The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) is in Ottawa to advocate for improvements to the patent and trade-mark systems in Canada. On the occasion of World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, IPIC is calling on the government to make small but important changes to Canada’s IP laws to ensure that IP owners and Canadian innovators do not face the inadvertent loss of rights from events ranging from natural disasters to simple clerical errors in the application process. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund announced today that the Convergent Digital Media Incentive (CDMI) for English language projects is now closed due to a high number of eligible applications received. The CMF will no longer be accepting applications from applicants who wish to receive funds for their English language digital media component from this incentive. Applicants who are eligible to receive funds from the French Convergent Digital Media Incentive allocation can still apply.  Read the rest of this entry »

Today, the Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced the Anglophone Minority Incentive, a $3 M program designed to encourage television convergent production for English language production in Québec. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board, has unveiled a new searchable online database that, for the first time, provides easy access and analysis of all government spending. The tool gives Canadians a quick picture of how taxpayer dollars are spent and allows Parliamentarians to better analyse government expenditures. Read the rest of this entry »

Royal Galipeau, Member of Parliament for Ottawa-Orléans, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), today announced Government of Canada investments of up to $1.85 million to support software development and attract private sector investment in high growth companies in the Ottawa area. Read the rest of this entry »

Just in time for the celebration of Canadian music and musicians at the JUNO Awards next week, Canada Post is proud to give Canadians a preview of this edition of the Canadian Recording Artist stamp series, to be released in July, featuring for the first time, Canadian bands. Beau Dommage, Rush, The Guess Who and The Tragically Hip will be spotlighted in this fourth issue in a series created to honour musical legends. Read the rest of this entry »

Personally I feel that a long term investment in our own domestic creative industries would have been money well-spent. However, in a newly issued press release, the Province of British Columbia has provided the following preliminary estimates of immediate economic benefit to B.C. as a result of the Times of India Film Awards (TOIFA). The following preliminary breakdown of production impacts has been provided by The Times Group: Read the rest of this entry »