From CNW:
The first Canadian Videogame Awards were handed out in Vancouver this evening, with Dragon Age: Origins from Electronic Arts/BioWare taking home two awards, including Canadian Game of the Year. Assassin’s Creed II received a total of three awards and the other winners included Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes and Dawn of War [...]

From Gamasutra:
The organizers of next month’s GDC Canada event in Vancouver are offering free Main Conference passes to Canadian game developers laid off in the last twelve months to help them return to the game industry.
Continuing a similar program conducted during GDC Canada 2009, and recognizing the toll the recession has taken [...]

From VentureBeat:
Another big publisher has made the move to open a dev base in subsidy-supported Quebec, Canada – with THQ  the latest to establish a Montreal studio. The Canadian studio will become the biggest among THQ’s studios, which employ about 1,200 people. Other game companies who got tax breaks in Quebec to hire lots of [...]

From CBC.ca:
Canada added 79,000 jobs last month as the country’s unemployment rate dipped 0.1 percentage points to 8.5 per cent.
Statistics Canada said Friday that full-time employment increased by 39,000 in November, the third consecutive monthly increase, while part-time employment grew by 40,000, following two months of declines.
The job growth far surpassed the consensus [...]

[ January 5, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] From GameDev.net:
The call for submissions to present content for lectures, roundtables and panel sessions for the 2010 Game Developers Conference® Canada (GDC Canada) is now open through midnight, Tuesday, January 5, 2010. GDC Canada serves as a nexus point for established and promising young studios to learn best practices for developing new global titles [...]

From IGDA Montreal:
Develop: Québec Focus
Famous for its French-speaking populace, the large Canadian province of Québec is located in the east of the territory adjacent to the vast expanse that is the Hudson Bay.
In a country renowned for recognising and supporting the games industry it hosts, Québec stands out as perhaps the most forward [...]

From CBC.ca:
Good news for Montreal iPhone game developers, if you don’t already have one with Rogers!
Bell and Telus have reached agreements to sell Apple’s iPhone in Canada this November.
The iPhone addition was long rumoured to be a part of the next-generation high-speed network that the two companies have been building together.
Late Monday, [...]

From Gamasutra:
The Toronto, Ontario-based McLuhan Festival of the Future announced the launch of this year’s The Vortex Competition, which revolves around aspiring game entrepreneurs and companies across Canada.
A judging panel will review submitted concepts and prototypes of games in two respective categories. The competition, now in its fifth year and open to entrants [...]