Published On: November 5th, 2021(November 5th, 2021 - Toronto, Ontario) Yesterday, Minister of Finance Peter Bethlenfalvy delivered the government’s fall economic statement and released its 2021 Ontario Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review. Interactive Ontario is very pleased to see that the Ontario government is committed to continue to explore opportunities to work with the [...]
Published On: September 30th, 2021Interactive Ontario, the Provincial trade association that advocates on behalf of the Video Game/Interactive Digital Media Industry at all levels of government, announced today the appointment of three new members to the association’s board of directors, effective September 29th, 2021.
- Published On: March 10th, 2021
Toronto, Ontario - Interactive Ontario launched ipprenticeship: Career Fair for Emerging Black Professionals and Students, in collaboration with Ubisoft Toronto and with the support of Ontario’s Black Youth Action Plan. This inaugural Career Fair was held on February 25 and 26, 2021 and connected companies looking to hire emerging Black [...]
Published On: February 22nd, 2021Interactive Ontario submitted a spring pre-budget submission to the Provincial government on February 11 2021. It is in line with the recommendations of the Ministerial Advisory Council on IDM (Spring 2020) and all subsequent IO presentations and submissions to the government. Streamlining the Ontario Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit [...]
Published On: January 13th, 2021IO submitted recommendations to the Canada Media Fund (CMF) re. potential improvements to the current funding programs and their management. These recommendations resulted from IO’s Town Hall with industry in December. The latter was specifically organized to discuss these topics. IO initiated discussions with the CMF/Telefilm in December regarding [...]
Published On: December 8th, 2020December 8th, 2020.--(TORONTO, ONT)--Interactive Ontario, the Provincial trade association that advocates on behalf of the Video Game/Interactive Digital Media Industry at all levels of government, announced today the appointment of five new members to the association's board of directors, effective December 2nd, 2020. “Over the summer, IO’s executives have been [...]
- Published On: November 17th, 2020
The provincial government released its Fall budget on November 5, 2020. As expected, it was mainly focused on protecting and supporting people and businesses during the pandemic. Therefore, the tax credits for the creative industries were amended to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on productions. The amendment for the Interactive Digital [...]
- Published On: November 4th, 2020Tags: COVID-19
Interactive Ontario recently attended Minister MacLeod’s speech at the Empire Club of Canada where she unveiled the foundations for her long-term strategies for Heritage, Sport, Tourism, and Culture industries. We are pleased to announce that the Interactive Digital Media (IDM) industry is on the map. This reflects the relentless advocacy work that we [...]
- Published On: October 20th, 2020
Download IO's Fall 2020 Budget Consultation to the Government of Ontario Interactive Ontario submitted its Fall 2020 Budget Consultations pre-budget recommendations to the Government of Ontario on October 15, 2020. We reiterated some of the recommendations that were developed under the auspice of Minister MacLeod’s Ministerial IDM Council and were [...]
Published On: September 2nd, 2020Toronto, Ontario – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) is making $10M available to Canada’s interactive digital media companies. This is part of the $27.8M in funding that was designated for Canada’s audiovisual sector as part of Phase 2 of the COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund for Cultural, Heritage and Sport Organizations [...]