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Game developers lobbying for Ontario cluster

Ontario video game developers are this week making a case at the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2010) in San Francisco that Ontario is the best place in North American to create games. 

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Brabant appointed Telefilm Canada executive director

Telefilm Canada has announced Carolle Brabant’s appointment to the position of executive director. 

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Government holds more than 20 meetings, will make digital strategy announcement in ‘coming weeks’

Canada’s most powerful lobby group for the information and communications technology (ICT) sector reported 21 meetings between January and November 2009 with top federal officials and cabinet ministers who were laying the groundwork for a national digital strategy. 

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Proposed Rogers cell tower meets backlash

Residents in Purcells Cove, NS, a community in the Halifax regional municipality, are petitioning against plans by Rogers Communications Inc. to install a new telecommunications tower in the community, the Halifax Chronicle Herald reports. 

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Bell rural Internet plan to cost $454 million for 61,000 homes

Bell Canada and Bell Aliant’s plan to provide 112 Ontario and Quebec rural communities with broadband Internet is expected to cost $454 million, say the companies’ roll-out plan, submitted to the CRTC Feb. 26. 

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Industry awaits government’s next move; MTS urges legislation to liberalize telecom

MTS Allstream is calling on the government to keep to its pledge to “open the doors” for foreign investment in the telecommunications sector and table legislation in Parliament to eliminate the “sector specific” foreign ownership restrictions in the Telecommunications Act. 

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Bill King departs from Clement’s office

Bill King, formerly Industry Minister Tony Clement’s chief of staff, has parted with the minister’s office for an unspecified position outside of government. 

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Intertainment Media appoints Jonasson as CFO

Intertainment Media Inc., a Richmond Hill, Ont., company that creates rich media applications, announced Tuesday that it has appointed Edward Jonasson as CFO. 

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Astral Media Radio inks agreement with Emmis Interactive

Astral Media Radio announced Monday it has signed a long-term agreement with Emmis Interactive Inc. to provide interactive platform and sales consulting services. 

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Treasury Board eliminates six part-time commissioner positions

Stockwell Day, president of the Treasury Board, announced Monday the reduction of 245 governor-in-council appointments across the Government of Canada, including six positions with the CRTC. 

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