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Corus Entertainment and marblemedia has just announced that Peter-Julian Lee is the winner of the 2011 Innovative Storytellers Award. The $20,000, five-year educational initiative was created in 2008 by marblemedia and Corus in conjunction with Ryerson University’s Master of Arts in Media Production program. The award celebrates an outstanding Ryerson graduate student whose thesis explores the connection between content, new technologies and audiences. Read the rest of this entry »

On November 17^th, Dean Prevost, President of Allstream, will speak to members of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal (BTMM) and  esteemed members of the surrounding business community about IP Networking;  a method of B2B communication that continues to gain momentum in the marketplace. Read the rest of this entry »

Klipfolio Inc. has announced a new partnership with software consulting and development company MAP Teams. Based in Indonesia, MAP Teams is a multi-disciplinary firm that consults, manages, integrates, develops, and tests business intelligence (BI) and dashboard projects. Read the rest of this entry »

World Book’s Building Blocks of Science characters have been kidnapped by an Evil Scientist–the dastardly Dr. Edwin Quark. Gasp! He has hidden the Building Blocks of Science characters throughout the universe and World Book needs help in finding them in time to publish the 10-volume series. Read the rest of this entry »

Multichannel newspaper and magazine content distributor NewspaperDirect Inc. has released PressReader for Android for the newest hot tablet from Amazon: the Amazon Fire. When the Amazon Fire ships tomorrow, users will be able to activate the Fire’s built-in Amazon Appstore app to download PressReader and start reading complete digital replicas of their favorite newspapers from around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network (PREVNet) is hosting an event at 9:00a.m. on Wednesday November 16th to showcase its work to provide easy online access to best practices in bullying and violence prevention. Sourced from Canada and around the world, these important on-line resources are being added to the Canadian Best Practices Portal and will address topics such as bullying, dating violence, child abuse, and elder abuse across rural, urban, and Aboriginal communities. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) has officially marked the beginning of Global Entrepreneurship Week Canada 2011 – seven days committed to celebrating entrepreneurs and inspiring young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity from coast to coast to coast. Read the rest of this entry »

Research In Motion has announced that BlackBerry® smartphones running on the BlackBerry® 7 Operating System (OS) have been independently evaluated by a third-party Common Criteria evaluation facility and meet the security criteria for evaluation assurance level (EAL) 4+. Read the rest of this entry »

Real car advice for people who drive real cars – that’s the core of Test Drive, an exciting new digital magazine launched today by the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) and the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC), and produced by Totem Communications Group. Read the rest of this entry »

Golden Girl Finance Inc., one of Canada’s most innovative and modern source for financial literacy – with a feminine spin – is pleased to announce its partnership with another innovative, female-founded company, and one of the leaders in the financial services education industry, The Knowledge Bureau. Through this partnership, Golden Girl Finance aims to inspire more women towards pro-active management of their personal and family wealth, as well as incite interest and excitement towards careers in finance. Read the rest of this entry »