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Today, Rogers Communications announced it has awarded Ted Rogers Community Grants to ten British Columbia organizations this year which are making a difference in the lives of...

Sycamore Entertainment (SEGI) is pleased to announce that it has been approved by Amdocs as an affiliate for content through its subsidiary Vubiquity. VUBIQUITY, part of the Amdocs Media division of Amdocs , delivers premium content to viewers on...

via CryptoCurrencyWire ? For over 30 years, Street Fighter has brought joy and competition to fans around the world. The first Street Fighter game debuted in arcades in 1987, and since then, Capcom has revolutionized how we interact with the Street...

ATW Tech Inc. (the "Company" or "ATW Tech") , is proud to officially announce that its VoxTel division will allow Star Académie viewers to vote to save their favorite candidate during Sunday night variety shows produced by Productions Déferlantes, in...

TVO Original Captive is a new documentary that features the stories of girls and women who live with physical and psychological trauma from captivity. Premiering Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 9:30 pm ET on TVO, then streaming anytime on tvo.org and...

PUBG Global Invitational.S kicks off on February 5. Teams from Mainland China, Taipei, and Japan is going to join the game online. Apart from that, other 22 teams, which come from Europe, North America, Southeast Asia and South Korea, would...

Collective Arts, a brewer and distiller that has worked with over 1200 artists in their seven years, will be devoting its next series of art-focused can labels to artwork dealing with issues of social justice. The craft brewer will feature work by 36...

Popular food documentary series, Moosemeat & Marmalade, returns to APTN for its fifth season on February 11th, 2021. Produced by BC-based Mooswa Films, the fan favourite documentary series chronicles the culinary adventures of bush cook Art Napoleon...

Four-time Grammy Award-winner Olivia Newton-John and her daughter, singer/songwriter Chloe Lattanzi will release their new duet, "Window in the Wall," an anthem aimed to unify and heal during these unprecedented times in the world, on Green Hill...

Larry Mercey, a member of the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame, thought the time was finally right to publish his memoir, Have Mercey: My First 60 Years Making Music. This is the definitive story of Larry Mercey as a solo artist and as a member of...

Nuvei Corporation , the global payment technology partner of thriving brands, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary has received approval to support the sports betting industry in Tennessee. The Sports Wagering Committee of the Tennessee...

Beckett's Tonics California, a subsidiary of The Tinley Beverage Company Inc. ("Becketts"), has joined forces with top-rated reality TV star Todd Chrisley, patriarch of the beloved Chrisley family, to raise a glass to the Beckett'stm family of...

Co-winner of the Rogers Audience Award at Hot Docs 2020, TVO Original The Forbidden Reel is a gripping documentary from Oscar-nominated and Canadian Screen Award?winning filmmaker Ariel Nasr (Good Morning Kandahar, The Boxing Girls of Kabul), Loaded...

Five of the independent music industry's most influential executives have come together in a new venture aimed at enhancing the future of independent labels and artists. Started by Glen Barros (former CEO of Concord Music Group), Exceleration Music...

2020 was a disruptive year for the world. We all stood witness to a global pandemic that shook the entire music ecosystem, virtually shut down the live industry, and drove labels and distributors to explore the boundaries of ingenuity and creativity....

Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Campgrounds, riding a wave of record sales, is targeting Western Canada for growth. Jellystone Park is North America's leading family camping and glamping franchise with more than 75 franchised locations, including parks...

GameSquare Esports Inc. ("GameSquare" or the "Company"), a Canadian gaming and esports company, is pleased to provide additional details on the proposed combination of GameSquare and Reciprocity Corp. ("Reciprocity"), a privately held gaming and...

via InvestorWire ? Friendable, Inc. (the "Company") is pleased to announce it has completed 2020 with more milestone achievements than the Company had projected as artists continue to come on board daily. Artist sign ups exceeded 700 as the year...

iQIYI North America (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Ài qí yì), the North American subsidiary of iQIYI has appointed award-winning Toronto-based THE JUSTIN POY AGENCY (a Div. of Justin Poy Media Inc.) as its exclusive media sales partner for the Canadian...

Season 4 of the ground-breaking TVO Original series Political Blind Date returns Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 9 p.m. ET on TVO, tvo.org, and the TVO YouTube channel. Produced by Open Door Co. and Nomad Films, in association with TVO, this season...

Enjoy new music from around the world this New Year's Eve with a live broadcast from our flagship Studio in the heart of Toronto. Ring in the New Year with live performances by a stellar variety of Toronto's finest singers and...

The Always in the Club record label under Mahvrick/Universal Records has just released a holiday Album, Why? Because It's Christmas, featuring 17 songs from 17 Mouseketeers. The fan-supported project was an immediate success via their IndieGoGo...

ORYX Gaming, a Bragg Gaming Group company , today announced a new partnership with Greentube-owned brand StarGames. The deal will see the ORYX provide content for the online casino's German market entry.  StarGames will gain access to premium...

On Tuesday, December 15, at 9 p.m. ET, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and TVO present the world premiere of Kevin McMahon's Borealis?an immersive journey into the heart of Canada's iconic boreal forest. The film exposes the chorus of life in...

NHK WORLD-JAPAN, Japan's international 24-hour English-language television channel, became part of Telus' channel lineup on Tuesday, December 8th, 2020. Telus is the first operator in Canada to include NHK WORLD-JAPAN on their platform. "Carriage on...

The United Soccer League Players Association (USLPA), the union representing all of the United Soccer League's Championship and League One players, and the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a labor union representing hundreds of thousands of...

Irene Sankoff and David Hein, the husband and wife duo who put Canada on the world's stage with Tony award-winning musical Come From Away, are releasing a new original song in partnership with Destination Canada. This is Canada Nice is a song of...

via InvestorWire -- Utopia VR ("Utopia VR" or the "Company"), the developer of a web-based, mobile-friendly audio and video conferencing  platform that utilizes innovative 3D web technology, today announces the launch of Winter Wonderland, a majestic...

Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc. ("Enthusiast Gaming" or the "Company") , the largest gaming platform in North America, connecting with over 300 million gamers monthly worldwide, recently concluded its Enthusiast Gaming Live Experience 2020 ("EGLX...

Think politics can't possibly get any more controversial? Then you haven't met Benedikt Ríkardsson?dreamer, radical, newly elected prime minister of Iceland. The central character in TVO's recently acquired series The Minister, Ríkardsson is...

The tragic death of Joyce Echaquan last September in Joliette shook all of Quebec. Many artists will be joining their voices in her honour to raise public awareness about the importance of dialogue between Peoples and of the fight against racism with...

Fresh never goes out of style. Leading restaurant brand, The Chopped Leaf, announced the addition of three new items and wrap offerings to their menu today.  Focusing on staying true to the brand's roots, these new chef-designed flavours took...

GameSquare Esports Inc. ("GameSquare" or the "Company"), a Canadian esports company, is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement financing of units (each, a "Unit") at a price of $0.25 per Unit...

Since June 2020, Toga Limited has offered entertainers a venue to showcase their talent and earn income during the Covid-19 pandemic. According to a joint statement by the International Labor Office (ILO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the...

ARENA DEL RIO, the first fully-integrated entertainment development in Latin America, arrives in Barranquilla, Colombia, placing Barranquilla among the world's greatest creative and cultural destinations. This multifaceted urban complex will make the...

D-BOX Technologies Inc. (D-BOX) , a world leader in haptic and immersive entertainment experiences, and Ubisoft® announce the upcoming compatibility of D-BOX's haptic technology with Assassin's Creed® Valhalla, Ubisoft's latest release on November...

Today, Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company, announced it was selected by Legendary Entertainment, the production company behind films such as Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Enola Holmes, the Godzilla franchise, and the highly anticipated Dune (2021),...

TVO is pleased to announce the world broadcast premiere of the TVO Original Running Wild: The Cats of Cornwall. Written and directed by Aaron Hancox and produced by Markham Street Films, the documentary can be seen on TVO on Tuesday, November 24,...

"Dancing After TEN" is shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award alongside "Frying Plantain" by Zalika Reid-Benta (House of Anansi Press), "In...

TVO and Feltfilm are pleased to announce the world broadcast and online premiere of TVO Original Picture My Face: The Story of Teenage Head, Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 9 pm ET on TVO and tvo.org.  This relevant and poignant documentary tells the...

Creative Armenia and the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) are proud to host Concert for Artsakh ? a global musical event that will raise awareness and funds for Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and its people, who continue to endure indiscriminate...

Felix & Paul Studios, the EMMY-award winning creator of immersive...

Kathleen Rea overcomes pandemic related isolation through a playful new dance form called the PROPinquity Dance Jam.  Kathleen Rea ran a Dance Jam for twenty-one years every Wednesday through her company REAson d'etre dance productions. Every week,...

Forget cinnamon, spice and everything nice. Leading restaurant brand, The Chopped Leaf, turns things up-a-notch while we head into the cooler, shorter days of fall. Focusing on innovating seasonal trends, their new chef-inspired limited time menu...

Originally presented in a world premiere during the 70th Cannes Film Festival in 2017, where it was the first VR experience ever chosen as part of the festival's...

via NetworkWire -- Utopia VR (the "Company" or "Utopia VR") announces Zombie Land VR, an iconic zombie experience featuring a heart-pounding interactive, fully immersive virtual reality ("VR") themed environment. As participants walk through the...

NexTech AR Solutions (NexTech) , an emerging leader in augmented reality for eCommerce, AR learning applications, AR-enhanced video conferencing and virtual events, is thrilled to be hosting a virtual meet-and-greet for grammy-nominated artist and...

ORYX Gaming, a Bragg Gaming Group company , has signed a distribution deal with Microgaming that will see ORYX's content launched on the leading supplier's aggregation platform.  As part of the deal, ORYX's RGS platform content featuring unique,...

Stingray , a leading music, media, and technology company, is proud to join American Campus Communities in partnering with the Hi, How Are You Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging thoughtful discussion around...

Felix & Paul Studios, the EMMY-award winning creator of immersive entertainment experiences, TIME Studios, TIME's EMMY-award winning television and film division, and Nanoracks, the leading provider of commercial access to space, today announced the...