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The Huffington Post Media Group launched HuffPost Live, the site's live streaming network, and starting today, anyone with a smart phone, a tablet, or a webcam can instantly join the conversation happening on HuffPost Live.

On HuffPost Live, users' voices can be heard on the issues that matter most to them, right along with the network's other guests, including newsmakers, celebrities, pundits and experts. HuffPost Live operates out of studios in New York and Los Angeles, with a satellite studio operating out of HuffPost's Washington, D.C. bureau. HuffPost Live will live-stream 12 hours of programming, five days a week, with highlights shown overnight and on the weekends.

At launch, HuffPost Live's host/producers include Marc Lamont Hill, Abby Huntsman, Alicia Menendez, Alyona Minkovski, Nancy Redd, Mike Sacks, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Jacob Soboroff, Janet Varney and Josh Zepps.

This innovative new launch is supported by our founding partners at Cadillac and Verizon. Throughout 2012, both these partners will enjoy the opportunity to be directly integrated into the live programming as well as the in the surrounding media across platforms, and syndicated across AOL brands.

Follow HuffPost Live on Facebook (Facebook.com/HuffPostLive) and on Twitter @HuffPostLive. Watch HuffPost Live now at live.huffingtonpost.com.

HuffPost Canada Music launched today, joining AOL Canada's family of music properties which includes AOL Music Canada, Spinner.ca, The Boot, The Boombox, Noisecreep and AOL Radio. The site combines The Huffington Post's powerful engagement and blogging platform with groundbreaking music content, original one-on-one interviews, exclusive videos, performances and more.

To celebrate the launch, HuffPost Canada Music has teamed up with Universal Music Canada to offer the chance to win a trip for two to New York City to see The Smashing Pumpkins live in concert. The contest invites visitors to test their Smashing Pumpkins knowledge with a unique trivia quiz and then gives them a chance to enter to win.

Launch partners also include Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co. and their media agency, PHD. Ads for their Back-to-School campaign are running across all AOL music properties, including HuffPost Canada Music.

The Huffington Post Canada launched in May 2011 as the first international edition of The Huffington Post, and now reaches 3.4 million online Canadians through its various Canadian channels and sites. It has an ever-growing social following, boasting more than 51,000 Facebook fans, more than 36,000 Twitter followers and receiving more than 14,000 comments per week.

Find out the latest music news in Canada now.

*Source: comScore, Inc., Total Canada, Home & Work, June 2012. 3 month average from [M] AOL Music. The Huffington Post data from [E] Huffington Post Global.

Today three brand giants teamed up to launch Live Better America, a powerful new brand that will live across three platforms – General Mills, AOL and Everyday Health. Targeting one of the most powerful demographics in the world, Baby Boomers, Live Better America is a new lifestyle experience focused on helping them chart a course for the life they want.

For AOL, the launch showcases the power of our branded platform from a content, technology and audience perspective. With this launch we are showcasing our unique ability to move brands forward by delivering best-in-class content, and flawlessly syndicating that content across AOL and beyond via engaging editorial and advertising content, award-winning premium formats, our video network and even connected TV.

As this partnership has come to life our goal with General Mills and Everyday Health is to collectively deliver a highly compelling, consumer-centric experience. For AOL that means blending custom content, a community experience and social interaction in a way that creates an engaging consumer experience for Boomers. To that end, we will tap into The Huffington Post's vast array of lifestyle content across multiple sections, including Travel and Healthy Living. The program also takes full advantage of HuffPost's content management technology platform which will power the AOL experience, enabling us to publish branded content in real-time and maximize social engagement with the brand message. Huff Post 50 will also help build the right audience for the program.

And to Boomers who have searched far and wide for an online home - Live Better America is here to get you talking about your inspirations, passions, stories and the conversation will continue day after day!

(Janet Balis contributed to this blog post.)

To encourage positive change in communities across Canada, AOL Canada and the Huffington Post Media Group launched HuffPost Canada Impact today. The site, part of Huffington Post Canada, will focus on poverty, homelessness, immigration, citizenship and aboriginal news and serve as a platform for readers to take action on these issues.

HuffPost Canada Impact will feature contributions from Huffington Post editors, bloggers, and community leaders as well as regular content from non-profit partner organizations including include Free The Children, an international children's charity; Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, a Canadian charity working for a swimmable, drinkable, fishable world, and Habitat for Humanity Canada, which builds affordable housing and promotes home ownership to break the cycle of poverty.

Launch week will include features such as "Greatest Person," stories of great Canadians inspiring others to make a difference, and "If I could #Change Canada," a collection of stories, videos, tweets and more on what readers would do to make the country better.

"Impact is a key part of HuffPost's DNA -- not only telling stories but starting conversations around our shared passions and inviting our readers to connect, engage, and make a difference in the lives of others," said Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, in a blog post today.

Rashida Jeeva, general manager of the Huffington Post Canada, which launched a year ago, said, "We are very excited to leverage the Huffington Post model, which at its core is all about participation, to bring Canadians HuffPost Canada Impact, a unique destination that helps people take action on issues that matter most in their daily lives."

Check out HuffPost Canada Impact to join the conversation and make a difference today.

AOL Impact is teaming with Huffington Post Impact to support the victims of the Aurora theater shooting. You'll see the relief effort featured on AOL.com today in the Cause of the Day module. Huffington Post Impact and Crowdrise, an online fundraising website, also joined forces to raise money for survivors and victims' families. The money raised is going to the New Ventures Fund, which will distribute it to organizations such as charities, churches and hospitals supporting the families of victims. In some instances, donations will go directly to the families.

Read more about the program and some of the nonprofits that the donations will benefit on AOL Impact.

.@AOLImpact, HuffPostImpact Join to Help Aurora Victims aol.it/Mo9bSE

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) July 26, 2012