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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 »

Toshiba Canada’s Nominate a Hero contest invites you to pay it forward by nominating a hero in your life who has helped you in a memorable way. By submitting your story and a photo, you will have the opportunity to select from 3 available prize packs that your hero could potentially win if they are selected as one of the top three winners.  As a bonus, you will also receive a Toshiba Tablet if your hero is selected as one of three winners. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto’s Alexander Levy never planned to start a business, but while working as a student researcher at the University of Toronto, he developed a prototype mobile application that allows people with communication disorders, such as those caused by stroke, autism and ALS, to make themselves understood audibly – at a tiny fraction of the cost of existing hardware systems. Read the rest of this entry »

Ricoh Canada has announced the functional integration of InfoPrint Solutions Canada, providing customers with an even broader offering of document management solutions. The integration of InfoPrint provides Ricoh with immediate access to a specialized segment of the market that was previously underserviced by the global Document Management company.  Specifically, InfoPint’s expertise in high speed production colour adds tremendous value to an already robust Ricoh portfolio.  Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft Toronto is the “start-up in disguise,” as Jade Raymond calls it. The studio head and managing director of the year-and-a-half-old studio now houses almost 200 employees, and is well on its way to hitting the planned 800 over the next 10 years. We caught up with Raymond at WIFT-T’s inaugural International Women in Digital Media Summit in Stratford, ON to talk about the people she wants to bring on board at the growing AAA game company, her strategic goals for the next few years and how Ubisoft has handled its IP across different platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Today Funcom kicks off Week of the Templars – a full week of focus on the Templars secret society. Throughout the week, all eyes will be on the historic and uncompromising Templars society, one of three secret societies represented in the upcoming, modern-day MMO ‘The Secret World’. Read the rest of this entry »