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

1. A ‘flying billboard’ over Toronto recently launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign promoting Montreal as a tourist destination by highlighting the city’s 375^th anniversary celebrations, which will take place throughout 2017.

2. The Bell Centre, home to the National Hockey League’s (NHL’s) Montreal Canadiens, is using Navori Labs’ QL Professional software to manage a mix of video, animation, graphics and data for a growing number of digital signage displays.

3. Software developer Color Logic has donated its process metallic colour system to Ryerson University’s School of Graphic Communications Management (GCM) in Toronto, where it is running on a previously donated Roland DGA Soljet Pro 4 XR-640 inkjet printer/cutter.

4. Jeff Kent, chief technology officer (CTO) for Toronto-based Cineplex Entertainment, has been elected to serve on the Digital Signage Federation’s (DSF’s) executive committee in 2017 as treasurer.

5. Creative Chatter Communities’ new digital out-of-home (DOOH) public service announcement (PSA) campaign, Face of Giving, is sharing people’s selfie photos on billboards around the world to help raise funds for non-profit organizations.