Meet Our Partners

CTVglobemedia Inc. is Canada's premier multimedia company with ownership of CTV, Canada’s #1 television network, and The Globe and Mail, Canada’s #1 national newspaper. CTV Inc. owns and operates 27 conventional stations across the country, with interests in 32 specialty channels, including Canada’s #1 specialty channel, TSN. CTVglobemedia also owns the CHUM Radio Division, which operates 34 radio stations throughout Canada, including CHUM FM, Canada’s # 1 FM station. Other CTVglobemedia investments include an interest in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd., which owns the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors and the Air Canada Centre; and an interest in Dome Productions, a North American leader in the provision of mobile high definition production facilities.

 

Scotiabank is one of North America's premier financial institutions and Canada's most international bank. Through our team of 69,000 employees, Scotiabank and its affiliates offer a broad range of products and services, including personal, commercial, corporate and investment banking, to more than 12.5 million customers in some 50 countries around the world.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an integral part of who we are and how we do business at Scotiabank. Our commitment to CSR provides us with a competitive edge; it contributes to customer and employee satisfaction, helps us meet our shareholder expectations and broadens our community relationships.

Another important component of CSR is our community giving. In 2008, the Bank contributed more than $43 million in sponsorships and donations. Contributions were made to a variety of Canadian and international projects and initiatives, with a focus primarily on education, health care, social services, and arts and culture.

 

TD Community Giving: Making a Difference Together

Children’s health, literacy and education, and the environment are the three main areas of focus for TD’s community giving. Flagship programs within these areas include: TD Children’s Hospital Fund; TD Friends of the Environment Foundation; TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup; TD Canadian Children’s Book Week; TD Canada Trust Scholarships for Community Leadership; and the TD Summer Reading Club. With support from customers and employees, TD is involved with a host of national, regional and local causes benefiting diversity, arts and culture and other community programs. In 2008, TD donated $35 million to more than 2,100 organizations across Canada.

 

Through early exposure to the arts our youngest citizens develop the creativity and confidence that are essential for full participation in society and for the strength of our communities. Great-West Life, London Life and Canada Life are proud to sponsor IN CELEBRATION OF OUR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: A DAY OF OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES through The Key to Giving™, our national corporate citizenship program, and to help children and youth with disabilities grow through arts and culture.

Great-West Life is a leading Canadian insurer which, together with its subsidiaries, London Life and Canada Life, serves the financial security needs of more than 12 million people. As an Imagine Caring Company supporting the principles of corporate citizenship and benchmarks for community investment established by Imagine Canada, Great-West Life, London Life and Canada Life donate a minimum of one per cent of average pre-tax profits to non-profit, charitable and community organizations each year.

 

Astral Media is a leading Canadian media company, reaching people through a combination of highly targeted media properties in television, radio, outdoor advertising, and interactive media.

The Company is the country’s largest broadcaster of English- and French-language pay and specialty television services and operates, on its own or with partners, 20 television services, including The Movie Network/HBO Canada, Super Écran, Family, Canal Vie, Canal D, VRAK.TV and TELETOON.

Astral Media is also Canada’s largest radio broadcaster with 83 licensed radio stations in 8 provinces, including NRJ, RockDétente, Virgin Radio, EZ Rock and The Bear.

Astral Media Outdoor is one of Canada’s most dynamic and innovative outdoor advertising companies with nearly 8,000 faces located in the largest markets in Québec and Ontario.

The Company also operates over 100 websites with a high level of interactivity and a variety of different products and services online. Astral Media employs over 2,800 people throughout Canada.

 

Canwest Global Communications Corp. (www.canwest.com), an international media company, is Canada’s largest media company. In addition to owning the Global Television Network, Canwest is Canada’s largest publisher of English language daily newspapers and owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in conventional television, out-of-home advertising, specialty cable channels, and web sites in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.

 

The Government of Canada is committed to giving Canadians direct access to a variety of quality artistic experiences. The Canada Arts Presentation Fund (formerly Arts Presentation Canada) offers financial support to presenter organizations, arts festivals and the organizations that support them, to ensure that Canadians will have more access to artists' work from all regions of Canada that reflect its rich cultural diversity, and that Canadian communities of all backgrounds will have the opportunity to participate in and benefit from the broadest possible range of artistic experiences.

 

Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) is an agency of the Government of Ontario. OMDC’s mandate is to build Ontario’s cultural industries’ capacity and competitiveness. Through tax credits, programs and services for the film and television, book and magazine publishing, music and interactive digital media industries, OMDC maximizes opportunities for growth and innovation in Ontario and abroad. Ontario’s cultural industries contribute over $6.7 billion annually to the economy and generate more than 36,000 highly skilled jobs. Ontario is home to more than half of Canada’s cultural media products. OMDC continually seeks out new ways to facilitate and foster the industries’ own entrepreneurial spirit, providing the research, resources and contacts to stimulate the creation of new products, new projects and new companies.

“For further information, please visit our website www.omdc.on.ca

 

     

VoicePrint-- Established in 1990 as a service of The National Broadcast Reading Service Inc., is the world’s largest audio-reading service in terms of number of homes accessed, and is available on cable TV, on satellite and online. It’s Canada’s 24/7 audio newsstand, and thanks to the efforts of hundreds of volunteer broadcast readers across Canada, VoicePrint delivers daily full-text audio versions of articles from over 600 leading Canadian newspapers and magazines to more than 5 million people who are blind, vision or print-restricted, learning or physically disabled, and/or impairments associated with aging.

Listen today at www.voiceprintcanada.com.

The Accessible Channel- TACtv, launched in January 2009, broadcasts 24/7 described-video and closed-captioned versions of popular 24 hours a day offering viewers who are blind, low-vision, deaf and hard of hearing, versions of popular, current TV shows, favorite movies, information, drama, entertainment, including such programs as: Hollywood’s Greatest Mysteries, Biography, Road to Avonlea and such Hollywood classics as: A Farewell to Arms and Doll Face...to name a few. TACtv- Television That Includes Everyone.

For more information on the TACtv program line-up and channel guide, visit www.tactv.ca.