Category: Videos

Congrats to Canadians: Winning the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards

The following two Canadian companies received awards at the annual Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards presentation held February 11, 2012: Andrew Clinton and Mark Elendt of Toronto-based Side Effects Software won the Technical Achievement Award for their software that improves rendering of digital special effects such as smoke and clouds.…

February 26, 2012
Let It Grow Contest: Help The Weather Network Plant 500,000 Virtual Trees for Your Chance to Win

Watch the movie trailer of The Lorax here: The Weather Network invites you to participate in the Let It Grow with The Lorax! contest by: planting a Truffula tree in The Weather Network’s virtual forest to make a difference and for your chance to WIN “help the Lorax make the virtual forest grow when registering, each…

February 25, 2012
You’re Invited: Rouge Park Guided Walks Feb.25, 26 & 29, 2012

Rouge Park is one of the world’s largest natural environment parks in an urban area as shown here: Rouge Park is located in Toronto and York Region, in Ontario, Canada. The Park stretches from the Oak Ridges Moraine in York Region all the way down to the Lake Ontario shores in Toronto, and is designated…

February 24, 2012
Win $1,000 Education Award: Friendly Neighbourhood Youth Road Hockey Challenge March 17, 2012

This video introduces Ontario’s longest running annual road hockey tourney..The 8th Annual Friendly Neighbourhood Youth Road Hockey Challenge..FREE to youths…! Friendly Neighbourhood Youth Road Hockey Challenge FREE Saturday, March 17, 2012 10:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Youth tourney: ages 12 – 18 yrs Timothy Street, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada (just off Main Street) On-Site Registration: March…

February 21, 2012
“What’s Next? How do we Address Poverty in Canada?”:Watch Via Live-Stream Online Feb.14, 5:30–7PM Eastern Time

This is an update to my previous blogs: National Conversation on Canadian Poverty Feb.14, 2012: Panelists & New Location Please Urge Your MP to Attend National Conversation on Canadian Poverty in Ottawa Feb.14, 2012 (New Date) Update From DIGNITY FOR ALL: Dec. 5, 2011 Event in Ottawa Postponed Please Urge Your MP to Attend “What’s…

February 14, 2012
Concerned Canadians Debunk Tar Sands Misconceptions Via Lobby Busting Tour of EU Embassies

Andrea Harden-Donahue – The Council of Canadians, Hannah McKinnon – Climate Action Network Canada and Clayton Thomas-Mueller – the Indigenous Environmental Network have been meeting with Ottawa-based European Union Embassies to counteract Canadian lobbying against an important European climate policy – recorded for Straight Goods News by Samantha Bayard on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, for your…

February 9, 2012
Safer Internet Day (SID) is Tuesday 7 February 2012

This video provides an overview of Safer Internet Day, showcasing past campaigns from a volleyball game in Italy to a flashmob in Latvia: The survey of 25,000 young people in 25 European countries (Malta was not included), published by the EUKidsOnline network in 2011, shows some interesting statistics about children’s online behaviour as follows: 38%…

February 7, 2012