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Key highlights for the year ended 2012 include $1.5 billion of new venture capital investment and $1.8 of new capital formation for domestic venture capital funds. These were among the findings of a statistical report released today by CVCA – Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association and research partner Thomson Reuters. Investment activity in Canada’s venture capital (VC) market in 2012 reached $1.5 billion which was invested via 395 rounds into companies in Canada’s innovation and emerging growth sectors.  The level of investment activity in 2012 was virtually identical to the accelerated pace seen in 2011, which was at the time a 5 year high for investment activity. Read the rest of this entry »

To update its award-winning PaperBecause campaign, Domtar Corporation has announced a new series of videos that take a humorous approach to highlight the irreplaceable value of paper. The 30-second spots mark the third wave of videos in the campaign that showcases the effectiveness and sustainability of paper. While the initial videos featured satirical office settings and exaggerated pressures to go paperless, the four new videos bring that comedy to everyday situations, ranging from a bridal shower to a business lunch. Read the rest of this entry »

Put the books away and take off to this month’s ultimate vacation destinations, Family Channel and Disney XD. Special programming lineups are taking off Monday, March 11 through Saturday, March 16, and this year’s March Break itinerary is overflowing with fun and excitement. Complete with new specials, crossover episodes, amazing guest stars, incredible prize giveaways and marathon madness, Family Channel and Disney XD have got your March Break vacation plans covered. Read the rest of this entry »

TELUS announced today it has introduced a new grants program to help fund technology projects and equipment upgrades in Nova Scotia schools. As part of TELUS’ ongoing commitment to give where we live, TELUS’ Phones for Good Campaign will give $25* from each TELUS smartphone purchased in Nova Scotia until August 7, 2013 to a newly created TELUS Technology for Teachers Fund. Read the rest of this entry »

Delivering more choice, more great content and more places for gamers to play their favorite games, Electronic Arts Inc. has announced that popular PC digital download titles from Ubisoft including Assassin’s Creed^® III, Far Cry^® 3 and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell^® Conviction are coming to Origin™. Ubisoft titles are available for purchase and download to PC gamers on Origin starting today in North America, with Europe and Asia availability beginning on February 22. Read the rest of this entry »

DHX Media Ltd. has signed a major new VOD “Video On Demand” deal with Midwest Tape-owned digital platform HOOPLA. This three year deal marks the first time DHX has sold to HOOPLA and underscores the company’s aim of exploiting digital opportunities for its library of programming on emerging platforms. The deal will see HOOPLA airing over 1300 episodes of DHX Media content including favourites such as Inspector Gadget, Busyworld of Richard Scarry, Caillou and Madeline. Read the rest of this entry »

To forge an alliance worthy of the great Vikings and dragons of Berk, Spin Master Ltd., one of the leading toy manufacturers in the world and DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. have entered into an exclusive licensing relationship in which Spin Master will serve as the worldwide master toy licensee for the DreamWorks Dragons slate of upcoming franchise properties, which includes a television series as well as the much-anticipated sequel to the original film. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) applauds the Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of National Revenue, for her latest effort to reduce the impact of the “taxman” on Canada’s small businesses. Earlier this morning, Minister Shea held a joint roundtable with CFIB in Toronto to hear from small business owners on what the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is doing right and wrong. CFIB’s recent report card on the CRA’s Call Centre Business Helpline, released during Canada’s annual Red Tape Awareness Week^TM in January, gave the agency a C- on its performance. While accountability of CRA agents has improved, service standards and agent professionalism have declined. Read the rest of this entry »

ACL, the Vancouver company that is transforming audit and risk, announced today the expansion of its mobile audit and compliance management product offering with the launch of ACL™ Workpapers for the iPad. ACL Workpapers for iOS, an extension of the ACL Workpapers cloud-based audit and compliance management system, is available for iPhone® and iPad® as a free download on the iTunes App Store. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has announced the launch of The Infamy, the first episode in the three-part Assassin’s Creed® III The Tyranny of King Washington downloadable content series for the Xbox 360®, PlayStation®3 and Windows® PC. In the first episode of The Tyranny of King Washington, our hero, Ratonhnhaké:ton, awakens from an unsettling dream to find, despite his efforts to deliver justice in the newly founded United States of America, that a new king has been crowned: George Washington. The Infamy takes gamers through the beginning of the journey to dethrone this new king. Read the rest of this entry »