Here’s your quick morning update on news in the sign industry:

1. Envision has configured and installed a new 15.2 x 3.7-m (50 x 12-ft) donor recognition video wall, comprising 33 NEC liquid crystal displays (LCDs), for the main-floor lobby corridor at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital.

2. Canadian fashion retailer Joe Fresh recently used Astral Out of Home’s and Quebecor’s interactive transit shelter posters in Toronto and Montreal, respectively, to promote its new spring collections for women, men and children.

3. Ontario’s Making Healthier Choices Act, scheduled to come into effect in 2017, will require restaurants to display calorie counts. Digital menu boards offer a cost-effective way to comply with the new regulations.

4. At its recent International Sign Expo in Orlando, Fla., the International Sign Association (ISA) presented the 2016 Innovation Awards, honouring six products judged ‘best of the best’ by an independent panel of experts. (link to Apr. 28 web feature)

5. Captivate, which operates digital signs in elevators, has added 13 Canadian office buildings to its digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising network, including locations in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto.