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 [...]

From Gamasutra:
THQ is the latest publisher to set up shop in Montreal, Quebec, as the company said Thursday that is establishing a new studio that’s expected to create 400 new jobs over the next five years.
THQ joins other major game publishers including Electronic Arts and Ubisoft, who have key studios in the Canadian [...]

I have just added a few more links to our Montreal video game company listing.
You can access the whole list here. Here are the latest entries:

Bioware Montreal
Yu Centrik
Di-O-Matic
Anomalik
Airborne Mobile
Bug Tracker
Quazal
Xaracom
Feeling Software
Darwin Dimensions
Babel Media
NDi Kids
Musitechnic

If I am missing some good ones, please let me know!

From ctv.ca:
Video game publisher Electronic Arts says its third-quarter loss widened because of a slew of charges and weak holiday sales which the CEO called “a clear disappointment.”
The Redwood City, Calif.-based company, which has locations in Canada, also unveiled more cuts, saying it would now lay off a total of 1,100 jobs, or [...]

From fastcompany.com:
The national unemployment rate may be at its worst in over a decade, but there’s a world of opportunity out there beyond Wall Street. Some regions are holding up better than others–Montreal is proving to be a hot bed for the video game industry, while the UAE is fertile ground for the airline [...]

From cbc.ca:

Software maker Electronics Arts Inc., which was several offices in Canada, plans to cut about six per cent of its workforce. The cuts are expected to affect 600 EA staff around the world. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company, which has offices in Vancouver, Edmonton and Montreal, has not said whether the cuts affect software [...]

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From developmag.com:
"Jacques Daoust, the president and CEO of Investissement Quebec, the Canadian agency responsible for the tax credits offered to games developers, has defended the region’s economic rebates from previously reported criticism that said the Montreal game scene was draining UK and European talent."
 
What do you think about the financial help Quebec [...]