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 [...]

From igda.org:
IGDA-Montreal is excited to announce a fourth edition of Dominance War, a massive international online game art competition. Dominance War IV, starting February 20th, is a truly unique game art competition. It brings together the globe’s best online art forums to compete for world champion standings in an Olympic-like setting. In this event, [...]