News by subject: Contests/Awards

Toronto ? When the world was largely shut down during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the leadership behind Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management began to think about how to redeploy their...

Coveo , a leader in relevance platforms that helps to transform search, recommendations, personalization, and merchandising within digital experiences, today announced that personalization-as-you-go, part of the Coveo Relevance Cloudtm platform, was...

Foresight Canada has announced the honourees for the second annual Foresight 50, recognizing Canada's 50 most investable cleantech ventures from coast to coast who are moving the needle to net zero. With climate-related disasters on the rise around...

For the third consecutive year, and 9th time in the last 10 years, Kruger Products is proud to announce that it has been recognized as the #1 vendor according to retailers in the Core Benchmark Set of the annual Advantage Report program conducted by...

The winners of the 2022 TECHNATION Ingenious Awards exemplify the true meaning of technology excellence, according to TECHNATION, Canada's leading national tech industry association.     The 2022 TECHNATION Ingenious Award winners represent the...

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. , today announced that analyst firm Gartner has named Zoom a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadranttm for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Worldwide for the third time in a row. The UCaaS report...

ZOLEO Inc., an emerging global messaging solutions company, announced its ZOLEO® satellite communicator has been presented with the prestigious ISPO Award. ISPO Awards recognize the industry's top products and services that make the sport experience...

For the 11th consecutive year, TELUS leads the industry with the fewest complaints amongst national carriers as confirmed by this year's Commission for Complaints about Telecom-Television Services (CCTS) report. TELUS' longstanding commitment to...

LeddarTech®, a global leader in providing the most flexible, robust and accurate ADAS and AD software technology, is pleased to announce that its LeddarVisiontm low-level sensor fusion and perception solution received the highly coveted Sensor...

Chinova Bioworks (Chinova) is honoured to announce Natasha Dhayagude, CEO and Co-founder, as the recipient of the Innovation Award at the 2022 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards. Presented by Women of Influence, and now in their 30th year, the...

Middlefield was recently recognized at the 2022 Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards Canada for its exceptional Fund performance. Middlefield Real Estate Dividend Fund Series F was awarded the Best fund over 5 years ? Real Estate Equity, for the second year...

The Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia (CPABC) and the CPA Western School of Business (CPAWSB) congratulate the 752 B.C. Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) candidates who passed the multi-day national Common Final...

Bobby Milheron stood on the top step of the podium last night, emerging victorious among the city's brightest culinary stars. Canada's Great Kitchen Party is proud to announce the gold medallist of the Vancouver regional culinary competition held...

Wolseley Canada has been selected as a Top Employer in Hamilton-Niagara. Hamilton-Niagara's Top Employers is an annual competition organized by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers. This special designation recognizes the employers in the...

(SASKATOON, Canada) ? November, 24, 2022 ? Vendasta's CEO, Brendan King, has been named a winner of the Canada's Most Admired CEOtm award by Waterstone Human Capital. Brendan was recognized as the most admired CEO in the Growth companies category. ...

At an awards ceremony hosted by Electricity Canada last night in Ottawa, AltaLink proudly accepted the President's Award for Safety Excellence in Transmission for the sixth year in a row. Electricity Canada offers this award to corporate utilities...

Capital Power Corporation ("Capital Power") has been recognized as one of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures for 2022 by Waterstone Human Capital. The award acknowledges our culture of caring developed through our robust employee experience...

Purpose Investments Inc. ("Purpose") is pleased to announce that three of its credit funds have won awards at the 2022 Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards and 2022 Canadian Hedge Fund Awards. The award-winning funds are the flagship Purpose Credit...

The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) is honoured to announce that five top international and domestic performers were selected for their distinctions, contributions and successes in mineral exploration and development. Now in...

VSBLTY Groupe Technologies Corp. ("VSBLTY"), a leading software provider of security and retail analytics technology, today announced that the company has been named "Most Promising Data Analytics Solutions Provider 2022" by CIOReview magazine....

Today, The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships will celebrate its 2022 Champion Award recipient: Steve Nackan, Executive Vice President & President, Aecon Concessions. Nackan, who has served as a dedicated volunteer member of the...

Patriot One Technologies (FRA: 0PL)?("Patriot One" or the "Company") today announced it received two gold awards from American Security Today's ASTORS 2022 Homeland Security Awards in the categories: Best Pedestrian Entrance Control and Best...

Branksome Hall, an independent IB world school, and the Munk Debates, dedicated to promoting civil and substantive public debate, are pleased to announce Re:Solved. The first online worldwide public speaking and debate competition on a universal...

OKX, the world-leading cryptocurrency exchange, is proud to announce that its Global Chief Marketing Officer, Haider Rafique, has received the Most Influential CMO in Blockchain & Crypto 2022 Award at the Middle East Blockchain Awards (MEBA), which...

Teck Resources Limited ("Teck") has been named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers for the sixth consecutive year by Mediacorp Canada's Top Employers program, which recognizes companies for exceptional human resources programs and innovative workplace...

Jetex, an award-winning global leader in executive aviation, sets a new Guinness World Recordstm title at its private terminal in Dubai, where it unveiled the world's largest fiberglass sculpture of a sphere (supported) which resembles a giant...

Virbela®, an immersive technology company that's redefining the modern workplace with its next generation of products for the metaverse and virtual reality (VR), today announced that it has been named to Fast Company's second annual Next Big Things...

Vortex Aquatic Structures International (www.vortex-intl.com), a manufacturer and world leader in water attractions, announced today that Dream Tunneltm has received a 2022 IAAPA Brass Ring Best New Product Exhibitor Award. The world's first fully...

Pizza Nova, the Ontario-based pizza brand committed to delivering quality since 1963, has been voted the 2022 Diamond Winner for best pizza in the Greater Toronto Area. This marks the fourth consecutive year the company has earned top honours in this...

From radio programs in Igloolik, Nunavut, to movement classes in Shelburne, N.S., to a speaker series for Red River Métis, Arthritis Society Canada is investing in local solutions to fight the fire of arthritis. Seven projects across Canada have...

Leading lifestyle service platform Fantuan is proud to be recognized as a part of Deloitte Technology's Fast 50 2022 awards program for its rapid revenue growth, entrepreneurial spirit and bold innovation. Running for 25 consecutive years, the...

Think On, Inc. today announced it ranked 440 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500tm, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America, now in its 28th year....

Capping off a tidal wave of industry recognition this past year, Automation Hero has been awarded a 2022 Innovation Index Award by Deep Analysis, an IT analyst and advisory firm with a focus on intelligent documentation. Deep Analysis praises...

Exterro Inc. ? the preferred provider of Legal GRC software specifically designed for in-house legal, privacy, and IT teams at Global 2000 and AmLaw 200 organizations ? announced today that KM World Readers' Choice Awards named Exterro Review as a...

Clear Blue Technologies International Inc. ("Clear Blue") , the Smart Off-Grid Companytm, received a Clean Technology award as part of Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 program. Launched last year, the new award leadership category recognizes Canada's...

PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (http://pyrogenesis.com) (FRA: 8PY), a TSX30® high-tech company (hereinafter referred to as the "Company" or "PyroGenesis"), that designs, develops, manufactures and commercializes advanced plasma processes and sustainable...

Today, eStruxture, the largest Canadian data center provider, announced that the company has been named an Enterprise Fast 15 award winner as part of the 2022 Deloitte Technology Fast 50tm program. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the award...

Quantum-secure communications company Quantropi, Inc. is thrilled to announced it is one of this year's recipients of the highly coveted Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Challenge Award. Distributed in Germany, the award honors some of the fastest growing...

Twenty-two community projects across Ontario are getting a boost thanks to funding from RTOERO's annual community grants campaign.  Since 1968, RTOERO has been a voice for teachers, school and board administrators, educational support staff and...

At a special gala this evening, the Canadian Museum announced the winners of its national Nature Inspiration Awards for 2022. Among the recipients are a family doctor who champions a program that prescribes visits to parks for health reasons, an...

Shining a spotlight on women executives, entrepreneurs, and organizations run by women, winners in the 2022 Stevie® Awards for Women in Business were announced on Friday, November 11. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business is an international...

A bundle of Alberta high schools and a state-of-the-art national archival facility are among the seven winners of the 2022 National Awards for Innovation and Excellence in Public-Private Partnerships. Presented by The Canadian Council for...

HydroGraph Clean Power Inc. ("HydroGraph" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has secured a $90,000 grant in funding per year for two years for composite work at the Fraunhofer Innovation Platform for Composite Research at...

Empire Communities, one of North America's largest privately held homebuilders, is pleased to announce they have been recognized at the 2022 CustomerInsight H.O.M.E Awards with six awards for customer experience excellence. The homebuilder won...

On Monday, November 7, 2022, the Ontario Museum Association (OMA) presented the OMA Awards of Excellence 2022 at their 50th Anniversary Annual Conference, Changing Directions: Practice over Permanence. The Awards reception was held at the Art Gallery...

NowVertical Group Inc. ("NOW" or the "Company"), the vertical intelligence ("VI") software and solutions company, is pleased to announce that Allegient Defense, NOW's Government Solutions team, was recognized by U.S. Secretary of Labor Martin J....

The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is now inviting nominations for several national conservation awards. "We all have a role to play in preventing biodiversity loss and conserving wildlife for the use and enjoyment of all," said Rick Bates,...

Astera Labs, a pioneer in purpose-built connectivity solutions for intelligent and accelerated systems, today announced that it is a finalist for the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Most Respected Private Semiconductor Company award. This award...

TELUS was recognized with two gold awards at Excellence Canada's 2022 Canada Awards for Excellence, winning in the Healthy Workplace and the Mental Health at Work categories. TELUS is the only telecommunications organization to be recognized in both...

OKX, the world's second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, today launched the OKX Football Festival in anticipation of national football teams meeting this month in Qatar. The OKX Football Festival consists of the NFT Football Cup, the 2022...