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In line with its new strategic vision Fostering Cultural Success, Telefilm Canada will select a contingent of 20 export-ready independent Canadian game development companies to support and showcase during GDC 2012. This initiative is aimed at the promotion of Canadian talent in the interactive digital media industry. The application deadline for the Canada Program at GDC 2012 is December 13th. Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa should transform the Investment Canada Act to create a broader, more transparent foreign investment review regime to encourage investment inflows while protecting Canadian national interests, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.  In “Reforming the Investment Canada Act: Walk More Softly, Carry a Bigger Stick,” authors Philippe Bergevin and Daniel Schwanen say that Canada should scrap the “net benefit test” that now restricts inbound foreign investment. The authors argue that such an overhaul could help reverse Canada’s declining share of global foreign direct investment, and bring Canada in line with its more open peers. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobilicity has reaffirmed its support of Ontario MPP David Orazietti’s wireless consumer protection legislation, scheduled to go into Second Reading on December 1^st. Ontario’s Bill 5, originally introduced in 2010 as Bill 133, The Wireless Phone, Smart Phone and Data Service Transparency Act 2011, would require wireless carriers to provide clear disclosure of all optional and mandatory services and contract cancellation penalties, and limit contract termination fees. Read the rest of this entry »

Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian has released a new white paper entitled, “Mobile Near Field Communications (NFC) “Tap ‘n Go” – Keep it Secure and Private,” at an Ottawa Conference on “The Future of the Internet: Opportunities & Challenges of Web 3.0.” Tap ‘n Go technology gives smartphone users new benefits and conveniences. Advances in mobile technologies, such as NFC, will provide people with control over our converging real and virtual worlds. Read the rest of this entry »

Ten of Ontario’s leading screen-based producers have just returned from an inaugural ten-day Mission to India led by the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) in partnership with Telefilm Canada.  The trade mission took delegates to Mumbai and Goa, including visits to the National Film Development Corporation’s (NFDC) Film Bazaar and the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), providing the delegates with an opportunity to forge new relationships between Ontario and Indian filmmakers and build the foundation for future collaboration between the two jurisdictions. Read the rest of this entry »

Innovative learning tools will be used to teach thousands more southern Ontario students about careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields thanks to a Government of Canada investment of nearly $1 million in Partners In Research. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for FedNor encouraged federal public servants gathered at PSEngage to further collaborate and interact with their government, and other Canadians, through social media. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada and Japan need to build on the success of their research collaborations to strengthen their knowledge economies, said the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology) (Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario). Minister of State Goodyear delivered opening remarks today at the Canada–Japan Bilateral Workshop on Nanotechnology at the University of Waterloo. The two-day event highlights collaboration between universities and businesses from both countries in support of innovation. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), has wrapped up his visit to Berlin, where he participated in the 26th annual German-Canadian Conference. The Minister of State also met with senior German government officials, as well as science and technology leaders, to discuss Canadian–German collaboration between universities and businesses to support innovation. Read the rest of this entry »

Library and Archives Canada (LAC), the Canadian Urban Libraries Council and the Canadian War Museum are contributing to Remembrance Week commemorations with an expanded collaborative agreement for the delivery of Lest We Forget workshops across Canada. These workshops allow students to research primary source documents by looking through the military service files of Canadian soldiers, doctors or nurses who served in the First World War or who were killed in action in the Second World War. The collaboration enables librarians and others across Canada to deliver Lest We Forget workshops using online tools provided by LAC. Read the rest of this entry »