Media has been announcing the demise of the brand for some time. Most recently both the The New Yorker (Twilight of the Brands) and The Economist have entered the fray. The...
I have been gobsmacked by the number of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford supporters who say they don’t care what he does as long as he saves them money. Seems not very many of...
Talk about putting your foot in it. How would you like to be the head of Public Relations at Barilla pasta? Last week their Chairman put both feet in it...
No thinking person in the west can help but be apalled by the situation in Syria. Why then have our governments been so slow to act? Of course we are...
I wish I had a nickle for every journalist I know who has taken me out to lunch in the last six months to ask for freelance writing assignments. It's not news,...
Two stories in the Wall Street Journal are delightfully juxtaposed. The first concerns a remote hilltop village near the Black Sea in Turkey where "tweeting is a very big deal..." but not the kind...
My mother once asked me: "Five years of college, you didn't learn to add, write or spell -- why exactly did you go?" It was a bit of an exaggeration,...
One of our team members just told me that our client Lufthansa German Airlines has been voted by Travel + Leisure readers as the world's safest airline. None of this...
I have been following the recent coverage of the casino bid for the city of Toronto with great interest. The opposition didactic is rooted in a dated mythology that does...