Lisa Williams

The Ontario government is investing $9 million at the Ontario College of Art & Design to be used toward research and training programs in digital media. The funding will be used by OCAD for its Digital Futures Initiative, a digital media and interactive design lab that will bring together students and private sector partners from a cross-section of industries.

The Canadian Medical Association has launched a new health portal dubbed mydoctor.ca, which has online tools for tracking chronic diseases, as well as a physician-driven Canadian electronic patient health record platform.

A joint technology program to be delivered by Hamilton, Ont.-based McMaster University and Mohawk College is set to receive $16.5 million in funding from the Ontario government. The funding will go towards construction of new classroom and lab facilities, and aims to meet demand in the tech sector for highly skilled workers.

Statistics Canada has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which aims to streamline data from the telecommunications industry.

Northwest Territories joins the list of eight provinces and territories that have joined BizPal, an online business that helps Canadian businesses identify which permits and licences they require and how to obtain them.

As the federal government prepares to table its 2008 budget, Bernard Courtois, the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) president and CEO, is hopeful that reforms will be made to the Canadian personal income tax regime.

The province of Newfoundland couldn't have handled a recent data breach any better, according to security expert, Rian Wroblewski. Wroblewski is the director of open source intelligence with New York-based Tony Joseph and Sons Investigation Inc., the private investigation agency that notified the Newfoundland government last month of a data breach in which a total of 694 files containing personal information were exposed.

Plans for the General Motors of Canada Automotive Centre of Excellence were recently unveiled by officials from GM and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. The centre will be housed at the UOIT's Oshawa campus and aims to enhance engineering competitiveness in Canada's automotive sector.