Stitch Media Inc: Digital Media

Federal Government Dept: Evan Jones, a Toronto entrepreneur, came east in search of a digital media tax credit in 2007 and left this year when his company, Stitch Media Inc ., was denied tax relief for two digital projects and was saddled with debt as a result, according to The Chronicle Herald. From 1885 to 1923, the federal government levied a head tax, starting at $50 and raised to $500, on every Chinese immigrant. The nefarious tax policy, later replaced by the Exclusion Act that stalled Chinese immigration to Canada until 1947, netted $23 million for the federal government and the provinces that collected it and the saga of a Halifax digital media firm vindicated by a Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruling this month reveals a dark side of tax policy and a lack of vision for the creative use of technology in schools. One project was an interactive online documentary detailing the real-life effects of Canada s racist immigration policies of the past. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.