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Canndora, one of Canada's leading cannabis accessories brands and vibrant communities for elevated women, is releasing an exclusive curation of products celebrating the first summer post cannabis legalization. The Hotbox Edition, with its visually...

Today marks the launch of the latest event produced by ArsenalFX, the treasure hunt adventure GOLD RUSH CANADA. $500,000 in cash treasure is waiting to be found spread between Ottawa, Edmonton, Montreal, Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver, with a minimum...

Liquid Media Group Ltd. (the "Company" or "Liquid") is excited to announce that Ancient Aliens: The Game®, together with fellow A+E Networks mobile title, Project Blue Book: The Game®, will be live at AlienCon in Los Angeles. Liquid, the official...

Setting out to revolutionize Canada's clean beauty world, newly launched MisMacK Clean Cosmetics will soon have its products in the hands of the many celebrities and VIPs of Hollywood at the Secret Room Events Gift Giving Style Lounge in honor of the...

Though it can be said that classics never age, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver celebrated its 80th Anniversary and the completion of a multi-phase $75 million renovation on May 25th, 2019. In homage to its history, the hotel collaborated with international...

Setting out to revolutionize Canada's clean beauty world, newly launched MisMacK Clean Cosmetics will soon have its products in the hands of the many celebrities attending the highly anticipated MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles in June. MisMacK is the...

? Citytv scoops the buzziest new shows and big stars for Fall, with Jimmy Smits's legal drama Bluff City Law and Bradley Whitford's ensemble comedy Perfect Harmony ?? 17 series and events return to Citytv, including A Million Little Things, Manifest,...

A cop-and-canine crime-fighting duo, an 1880s photographer with a macabre specialty, and an intergalactic space queen are among the weirdly wonderful characters coming to Citytv in 2019/20.  The new original...

For Optik TV customers, the best just keeps getting better. TELUS has announced a new, optimized structure for its Optik TV packages, which now offers more entertainment choices and value than ever before. TELUS Optik TV is the first and only TV...

The Calgary chapter of the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) is celebrating its 60th anniversary by donating 60 hours of member volunteer time on May 25 and May 26 to Calgary Reads. The '60 for 60' event will bring together public relations...

Hong Kong award winning, famous actor and singer Josie Ho is uniting fashion and culture through her recent collaboration with French luxury brand Olympia Le-Tan. The collaboration set to launch later this year will feature Josie and The Uni Boys...

True Leaf Pet Inc., a subsidiary of True Leaf Medicine International Ltd. ("True Leaf" or the "Company") , a leading global hemp wellness brand for pets, today announced that world-renowned creative director and choreographer to the stars Laurieann...

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ePlay Digital Inc. today announced Big Shottm Basketball Beta augmented reality mobile game received a new 3D scene and other new features. The new features are now available in the Apple App Store. The company also revealed that Big Shot continues...

(via Blockchain Wire) ?? ObEN, the artificial intelligence (AI) company creating Personal AI (PAI) technology to revolutionize digital interaction, has debuted PAI News, the first widely available app to leverage AI-driven hosts and anchors,...

Film star and The Blues Brothers co-founder Dan Aykroyd, Late Night with David Letterman band leader Paul Shaffer and blues-rock great David Wilcox will be among the special guests who will take the TD Mainstage on Bloor St. on June 22 to celebrate...

AMD today announced it will hold an event and livestream during E3 2019 in Los Angeles, California to unveil the next generation of AMD gaming products. Hosted by The Game Awards creator Geoff Keighley, AMD "Next Horizon Gaming" will be held at The...

From 2016 to 2018, capital investment in Canada's upstream oil and gas industry (essentially, exploration and production) increased 15 per cent compared to 41 per cent in the U.S. over the same period, finds a new study released today by the Fraser...

WOW! Unlimited Media Inc. , the leading next generation animation and kids media powerhouse led by industry trailblazers Michael Hirsh and Fred Seibert, has entered into a partnership with legendary music producer Bob Ezrin, known for his work with a...

Fairmont Pacific Rim, the iconic Vancouver hotel that has developed into one of the city's premier live music venues is launching a song search contest that invites singer/songwriters to submit an original song for the ?Soundtrack to the Pacific Rim...

TVO Short Doc Contest 2019 is calling all Ontarians to enter their short documentaries by July 15, 2019, for a chance to win great prizes and to have their work seen by a wider audience. Whether you want to take your filmmaking career to new heights...

Known as the "land of the living skies", Saskatchewan can now be called "land of the Everest Senior Curling Champions." For the first time since 2012, both the men's and women's senior curling teams from the same province have won the coveted 2019...

D-BOX Technologies Inc. (D-BOX) , a world leader in immersive motion entertainment experiences and CL Corporation, a creator and builder of dynamic attractions and simulators for the entertainment industry, are proud to collaborate on the 30th...

Economic data released today shows how a motion picture like New Line / DC's Shazam! can electrify the Ontario economy. The production spent more than $55 million while filming in the GTA.Shazam!  is the origin story of DC Comics character, Billy...

(via Blockchain Wire) ObEN Inc., the artificial intelligence (AI) company creating Personal AI (PAI) technology to revolutionize digital interaction, and SoftBank Corp, a major Japanese communications conglomerate, is excited to introduce a VR...

(via Blockchain Wire) ObEN Inc., the artificial intelligence (AI) company creating Personal AI (PAI) technology to revolutionize digital interaction, and SoftBank Corp, a major Japanese communications conglomerate, is excited to introduce a VR...

The Cliburn announces today that Marin Alsop will be the jury chairman for the Sixteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, taking place May 28?June 12, 2021, at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas USA. Widely considered one of the...

Textile Museum of Canada is pleased to present Balancing Acts, a new exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Nadia Myre. Balancing Acts is a selection of artwork made over the last ten years and marks Myre's first major solo exhibition in...

Felix & Paul Studios, the EMMY® Award-winning creator of immersive entertainment experiences, announced today that their groundbreaking virtual reality series, Space Explorers, has been nominated for a 2019 Daytime EMMY Award for Outstanding...

The 23rd Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (FILMART 2019) was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center (HKCEC) from 18-21, March, 2019. It is an occasion for film, TV and cross-media in Asia, as well as the largest film and TV...

(via Blockchain Wire) ObEN, Inc., the artificial intelligence (AI) company creating Personal AI (PAI) technology to revolutionize digital interaction, and AfreecaTV, Korea's top P2P video streaming platform, announced today that they will be...

The Audain Prize for British Columbia's most distinguished artists established in 2004 is this year being raised to $100,000, Michael Audain, Chairman of the Audain Foundation announces today. The Audain Prize will now be one of the big three annual...

INVNT, the global live brand storytelling agencytm, in partnership with Xero has received the Best Corporate Event Gold Award at the prestigious Event Marketing Awards 2019 organised by Campaign Asia-Pacific and CEI, for its production, management...

Canada's Wonderland, in partnership with SickKids Foundation, is challenging ride enthusiasts and child health supporters alike to "Break Records and Heal Kids" by fundraising for a chance to be first to ride the world-record breaking dive coaster...

Felix & Paul Studios, the EMMY® Award-winning creator of immersive entertainment experiences, today announced that interactive technology veteran Pierre Blaizeau has joined the studio as Head of Interactive Development to help lead the studio's...

Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc. , ("Enthusiast" or the "Company"), a gaming company building the largest community of authentic gamers, is excited to announce that it will be launching its own Esports tournament and entertainment series, called...

From the bestselling author of "Banking on America: How TD Bank Rose to the Top and Took on the USA" and "Distilled: A Memoir of Family, Seagram, Baseball and Philanthropy" comes the insightful biography "Railroader: The Unfiltered Genius and...

(via Blockchain Wire) ? ObEN Inc., the artificial intelligence (AI) company creating Personal AI (PAI) technology to revolutionize digital interaction, and Salin Co., Ltd., Virtual Reality (VR)/Augmented Reality (AR) Social platform provider, are...

The national re-release of Mary-Ann Kirkby's best-selling memoir, I Am Hutterite, comes at a time when Canadians are grappling with a loneliness epidemic; something foreign to the 45,000 Hutterites who live in 400 colonies on the Canadian prairies...

(via Blockchain Wire) ? ObEN Inc., the artificial intelligence (AI) company creating Personal AI (PAI) technology to revolutionize digital interaction, and Salin Co., Ltd., Virtual Reality (VR)/Augmented Reality (AR) Social platform provider, are...

An all-star cast of musicians will headline the TD Toronto Jazz Festival, June 21 ? June 30, 2019. One of music's most iconic singers, Diana Ross, will perform, as well as singer-songwriter Norah Jones, Cuba's grand dame Omara Portuondo, heavy...

The Yield Growth Corp. is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Urban Juve Provisions Inc., had its products selected for inclusion in gift bags given to the Awards presenters during a pre-Oscars event at the Four Seasons Hotel Los...

The work of a Seneca graduate was recognized at the 91st Academy Awards in Los Angeles last night. Seneca Visual Effects for Film and Television grad Zacary Campbell worked as lead compositor on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which won Best...

15-time Grammy winning musician Eminem, EMMY® award-winning immersive entertainment creators Felix & Paul Studios, and Facebook's Oculus today launched Marshall From Detroit. The cinematic VR experience is now available for Oculus Go, Oculus Rift and...

This March, TVO pulls back the curtain on the story of one of the most coveted heavy metals with the broadcast and streaming premieres of Northern Gold and The Shadow of Gold.  These TVO Original documentaries explore the impact of gold on the...

INVNT, the global live brand storytelling agencytm today announces that it will not be producing Bethel Woods Music and Culture Festival: Celebrating the golden anniversary at the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival. The festival, which was...

Restaurants Canada's 2019 RC Show is convening hospitality industry leaders and CEOs from top restaurants ? including McDonalds, Starbucks, KFC Canada, A&W and many more ? to share their stories and lead the conversation around the true meaning of...

Political Blind Date, the TVO Original documentary series that was the talk of Canada's political world last year, returns for a fresh second season February 14 at 9 pm ET on TVO and tvo.org/politicalblinddate. Produced in association with Open Door...

From restaurant robots and holograms, to meatless meat and transforming unused milk sugar into superior spirits, the 2019 RC Show has officially released its list of must-see, innovative products set to reshape the hospitality industry and transform...

INVNT, the global live brand storytelling agencytm, has bolstered its offering with the launch of HEV?, a collaboration agency dedicated to crafting 'Performance Content' that is narrative-led, innovation-inspired, data-fueled and designed to deliver...