The hours are ticking down to the deadlines to apply for a few of the country’s leading entrepreneurship or startup happenings  -- the EY Entrepreneurs of the Year competition, PropelICT's next cohort  and metabridge.

April 30 is the deadline to enter the EY Entrepreneur of the Year competition. This annual extravaganza picks winners from each region in the country. The Atlantic champion will be crowned at a gala dinner in St. John’s on Oct. 8.

Of special interest to the startup community is the Emerging Entrepreneur category, which was won last year by Introhive of Fredericton.  Applications can be found here.

May 1 is the deadline to apply to the next cohort of the PropelICT accelerator and to metabridge, a two-day mentoring and networking event in Kelowna, B.C.

Propel (which advertises on Entrevestor)  is now accepting applications for the cohort to run over the summer.  Its Build stream is for more mature companies and is based in Moncton. And its Launch stream for seed-stage startups is hosted at Volta in Halifax, Planet Hatch in Fredericton and Common Ground in St. John's. Details on the coming cohort are available here.

Metabridge is a two-day immersive program that links 15 of the leading startups in the country with a range of Canadian and American investors.  One of the keynote speakers this year is Disruption Corp. found Paul Singh, who recently entertained a crowd of founders in Halifax. Participants have an opportunity to pitch in front of entire metabridge audience, including VCs, top executives, and other tech leaders.

Ozge Yeloglu, the Founder and CEO of Halifax-based topLog, attended the event last year. You can apply here.