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Spurred by numerous recent media reports of employers requesting Facebook passwords from job candidates, Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, launched a paper today to provide Ontarians with practical advice on how to protect their online privacy in the increasingly complex social media world. Read the rest of this entry »

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has announced the recipients of its 2012-13 Contributions Program, which will provide $500,000 this year for projects that explore emerging and evolving privacy issues of interest to Canadians. Read the rest of this entry »

On the eve of an exceptional year for Canadian coproduction at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27, 2012), Telefilm Canada announces that the five-year total (2006 to 2010) for the volume of Canadian feature film treaty coproduction budgets amounts to $1.02 billion. This total includes the domestic and foreign budgets of 111 Canadian feature film international coproductions. Canadian feature film coproductions also earned 165 awards from around the world in the same time period, most notably the Canada-France title Incendies (2011) and the minority Canadian Polish-German feature In Darkness(2012) were Oscar nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released statistical and financial summaries for Canadian specialty, pay, pay-per-view (PPV) and video-on-demand (VOD) television services. During the past five years, this sector of the broadcasting industry increased its revenues by 36.7%, while profits before interest and taxes margins hovered between 22% and 25%, reflecting a strong demand for these services. Read the rest of this entry »

Speaking at the Canada 3.0 Digital Media Forum, the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, challenged Canadian industry to take risks, invest, think creatively and act boldly to ensure Canada’s success in the global digital economy. Read the rest of this entry »

Via Interactive Ontario: OMDC is now accepting applications for the 2012/13 cycle of the OMDC Export Fund – Interactive Digital Media. The Export Fund is an excellent opportunity for interactive content producers to get significant financial support to attend conferences, undertake sales trips and participate in trade missions. The Export Fund can help grow your business by assisting with the cost of travel, accomodations, conference fees and marketing materials for up to 5 business development-related events. Read the rest of this entry »

Over the past year, Canada has put new regulations in place to bring government agencies up to speed with international Web accessibility guidelines. As a result, all Canadian government websites must now be in compliance with Common Look and Feel standards or CLF. HiSoftware Inc., a US-based provider of content aware compliance and security solutions, today announced it has released a new out-of-box checkpoint group to allow Canadian government agencies to monitor and enforce CLF standards on both public-facing websites and intranets. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), in collaboration with Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), has developed an online DNS Checker to screen users’ computers for the DNSChanger malware. Read the rest of this entry »

Telefilm Canada is pleased to announce that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has officially recognized Telefilm’s new private donation fund as a Certified Independent Production Fund. Examples of other endorsed funds include the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Le Fonds Harold Greenberg, and the Canada Media Fund (CMF). Read the rest of this entry »

PwC is launching new research to see if Canadians are ready to receive more services and information electronically through their phones, computers and tablet devices. The project, called Citizen Compass, began April 18, 2012 and invites the public to participate, in either a survey format or an idea forum to make suggestions or discuss issues. Read the rest of this entry »