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ACTRA Toronto is pleased to announce the winners of the 11th Annual ACTRA Awards in Toronto, which were presented last evening at The Carlu. The gala evening was hosted by Elvira Kurt with live music by multiple Maple Blues nominee, Shakura S’Aida. The ACTRA Awards in Toronto recognize outstanding performances by ACTRA Toronto members. Awards host presented ACTRA Toronto’s 2013 Award of Excellence to Shirley Douglas, honouring her lifetime of acting and activism. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and Bell Media are pleased to announce participants, esteemed mentors, and guests of the 2013 Bell Media Showrunner Bootcamp. This advanced professional initiative is designed to equip three experienced TV writers with the knowledge, access, and executive skills necessary to establish themselves as showrunners. The annual bootcamp offers participants intimate and practical insight from top professionals in both Canada and in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

Layer 7 Technologies, a Vancouver-based provider of API management and mobilization tools for the new open enterprise, has announced that its SecureSpan Gateway for API Management is now available in AWS Marketplace. AWS Marketplace allows AWS customers to easily find, buy and start using software that they can run on the AWS Cloud. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Media creates a place for community engagement and social interaction, and can aid organizations in building relationships, developing business opportunities, supporting marketing strategies and engaging their community. Develop your social media strategies and skills with the UBC Award of Achievement in Social Media program. Learn from our industry instructors and network with colleagues engaged in social media. Improve your knowledge in this emerging field by taking individual courses or an Award of Achievement program. Courses take place in downtown Vancouver at UBC Robson Square, with selected courses also offered online. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) company OpenText™ has announced the immediate availability of StreamServe 5.6, OpenText’s new Customer Communications Management (CCM) solution that extends the value of EIM by tightly integrating with other OpenText EIM solutions, such as OpenText Business Process Management (BPM), OpenText Archiving and OpenText Media Management. Business users of OpenText StreamServe 5.6 will also now experience a stronger integration with Microsoft Word^® documents and HTML, delivering the power of marketing capabilities to non-technical document authors, insuring greater responsiveness and business impact. 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 »

ICTC has recognized Toon Boom Studio and its curriculum as one of the best vehicles to teach 21^st century business and technology skills to Canadian students. Montreal-based Toon Boom Animation Inc., the two-time Emmy award-winning digital content and animation creation software provider, has been approved as an official educational resource and curriculum to support the learning of 21^st century skills among Canadian students through one of ICTC’s youth and education initiative programs, Focus on IT (FIT). Read the rest of this entry »

Method, a high-growth Toronto-based startup and creator of the number one-rated CRM app on the Intuit Partner Platform, has just completed a deal for $3 million in Series A funding. Backed by Klass Capital, a North American VC supported by a $40 billion pension fund, the new investment will enable Method to engage in what it calls extreme product development: that is, a complete redesign of its platform so it fully integrates with Intaact, Wave, Xero, FreshBooks and other top accounting and SMB applications. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Blood and Marrow Transplant Group (CBMTG) is pleased to announce a partnership with Vancouver-based STEMSOFT Software Inc. that will result in a national registry of patients who have undergone blood and marrow transplants in Canada. The CBMTG National Registry is expected to launch in April 2013 in conjunction with the association’s annual conference. Read the rest of this entry »

With over 10 years of experience coaching kids and teens in the arts, John Stevens and his partner Doug Sloan, the owners of Talent INC Canada, are on a mission to empower the young people they work with. “The arts offer such a unique opportunity for young people to express themselves in a fun and safe environment,” says Stevens. Read the rest of this entry »