triOS College Bursary Blitz Across Ontario triOS College announced today the kick-off of its annual 241 Pizza Fresh Start Scholarship. Interested students can instantly receive a $500 scholarship towards their tuition to triOS College. Over 3,000,000 homes across Ontario will receive the flyer or participants can pick one up at any 241 Pizza location. Students can use this bursary towards triOS College Diploma programs in the Business, Law, Technology and Healthcare industries.

Gaming for Good: TVO Launches Honoured Citizen Facebook Game TVO gives Facebook politics a whole new meaning and takes another step in promoting citizen engagement with the launch of Honoured Citizen, a multi-player social media game that runs on the Facebook Platform.

New Portal Connects Canadian Businesses to Much-Needed Public Funding Every year Canada's three levels of government invest about $12 billion in grants and contributions, but many companies report that they have little understanding of how to access these resources.

On Monday an online bilingual service called THE FUNDING PORTAL launched across Canada to help businesses secure public funding through four easy steps: Find It, Apply for It, Score It and Advance It.

Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore announces funding for The Memory Project: Stories of the Second World War The Memory Project - Stories of the Second World War will provide every living Canadian veteran of the Second World War who wants to share their story of service and sacrifice with the opportunity to do so. The Dominion Institute will record the oral history of these veterans and digitize their artifacts and memorabilia. The Institute will also ensure that those stories and artifacts are shared with teachers, students and all Canadians through the Memory Project Digital Archive website (www.thememoryproject.com).

Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure is now available on the iPad! Illustrated and voiced by a five-year-old girl named Cassie, Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure has taken the web by storm, and now you can play it on your Apple iPad!   Mere hours after its online launch, the game went viral, and was featured in some of the biggest games publications in the world, including Boing Boing, the Escapist, Gamasutra, Kotaku, Wired UK, Time Magazine, and G4TV.  The father and daughter team behind the game have been interviewed by local and national radio, newspapers and teevee, and fans the world over have donated three thousand dollars to Cassie's Education Fund.

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Recognize Your Peers By Joining the Canadian Interactive Academy Be a part of the Canadian Interactive Academy, a nation-wide body of experienced game developers, so you can recognize the amazing achievements of your peers.

Academy members make up the 10-person juries for each of the discipline categories of the Canadian Game Development Talent Awards. Academy members have two primary duties to accomplish: First, they must take the results of the open nomination phase and select the 5 finalists for their respective category. Second, they vote on each category to determine the final winners.

Tower Defense Game World Rounds Out Untold's Game Portal Network Untold Entertainment is excited to announce the latest addition to its network of free-to-play game collections with the release of Tower Defense Game World. Over 120 games are ready to play, with new additions posted every week. Tower Defense Game World is the newest member of Untold's suite of free game networks, which currently includes Zombie Game World and Word Game World.

CBC, My Damn Channel Carry New Online Series from Animator Bruce McCall From the covers of the New Yorker to online video streams and now to the CBC, the original animation series The World of Bruce McCall is covering the planet.
Online video content production and distribution company iThentic has sold its new series to CBC, which will air the show on its main network and specialty service.

CMPA calling for member "solidarity" on Terms of Trade by Etan Vlessing

The Canadian Media Production Association has called on member producers to show "solidarity" in enforcing the newly minted terms of trade agreement with broadcasters when it comes into effect on Aug. 1.

X-Summit Call for Speakers We are looking for topics which cross several sectors and industries, and push the boundaries of how stories are told across multiple platforms.This conference will feature lectures, workshops, panel discussions, round table discussions & inspirational keynotes. X-Summit is taking proposals for presentations, panel discussions or other session ideas which will inform, inspire, spur collaboration and leave delegates with valuable new tools, connections and ideas!

TVO expands its digital offerings to include mobile apps on Polar Mobile's SMART™Platform TVO, Ontario's public educational media organization is pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with Polar Mobile that will make TVO's flagship current affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin available on mobile apps for BlackBerry® smartphones; Apple iPhones; Android and Windows Mobile smartphones.

The Writers Guild of Canada Presents The Bell Media Diverse Screenwriters Program The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) and Bell Media have now launched the second session of their program to bring more diverse writers into the talent pool of Canadian screenwriting with a call for applications from western Canada.  The Bell Media Diverse Screenwriters Program (formerly known as The CTV Diverse Screenwriters Program) reaches out to offer emerging and mid-career writers from diverse backgrounds the chance to hone the skills they need to become successful professional screenwriters.  And one writer will come out of the program with a paid internship on a Bell Media TV series.

Sympatico.ca's New Bilingual Mobile Application Puts a Portal in Your Pocket Sympatico.ca, which reaches 9.5 million Canadians,* today announced the launch of a new mobile application for smartphone users across the nation. The free bilingual app will give Canadians one tap access to the best in news, music and entertainment including stories from across the Sympatico portal. The Sympatico.ca mobile app is available for download now from popular application stores or by visiting apps.sympatico.ca.

TransGaming Announces $50,000 GameTree Developer Competition Finalists TORONTO, CANADA - July 6, 2011 - TransGaming Inc. (TSX-V:TNG), the global leader in the multiplatform deployment of games, today announced the three finalists of the GameTree Developer Competition, which offered game developers worldwide the opportunity to submit their games for the chance to win a $50,000 grand prize. The finalists will be distributed on the GameTree TV platform, immediately delivering them to the forefront of the Smart TV gaming revolution in consumers' connected living rooms.

DHX Media Licenses over 75 hours of programming to BBC Kids in Canada HALIFAX, July 6, 2011 /CNW/ - DHX Media (TSX: DHX), a leading international producer and distributor of mainly children's television programming and interactive content, is pleased to announce that the company has signed a package deal for licenses to four TV series with BBC Kids in Canada. The channel, now operated by Knowledge Network, has acquired over 75 hours of animation and live-action factual programming from the DHX Media library including animated series Olliver's Adventures, D'Myna Leagues, What About Mimi? and Yakkity Yak alongside the factual show Be the Creature.

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