The Future Of Ethics In Branding Last year, I received an email I will never forget: One of the world’s tobacco giants wanted me to consult for them. It’s not that I’m a stranger to requests from the tobacco industry. In fact, ever since I published Buyology in 2008, my email address appears to be…
Moving mind-sets on gender diversity: McKinsey Global Survey results To ensure that corporate culture supports—not hinders—the ability of women to reach top management, companies must address mind-sets and develop a more inclusive, holistic diversity agenda. Female executives are ambitious and sure of their own abilities to become top managers, though they are much less confident…
Province responds to Sudbury firm’s lawsuit Ontario cannot be held responsible for the failure of mining claims filed by a Sudbury-based exploration company in northwestern Ontario, the provincial government says in a statement of defence. Instead, the government says it was the failure of Northern Superior Resources and the Sachigo Lake First Nation to strike…
HSBC is paying $2 billion, or 5 weeks’ worth of its profit, to avoid criminal charges in drug cartel laundering case The Justice Department agreed to suspend criminal charges against the world’s largest bank and its US subsidiary for five years if the bank agreed to pay the penalty. US regulators continue to find weaknesses…
Norway to build modern icebreaker for oil, gas exploration in Arctic by 2016, posted on The Voice of Russia The Kronprins Haakon modern icebreaker for exploration of resources in the Arctic will be ready by 2016, Norway’s Minister of Fishery Elisabeth Aspaker said at the opening of the Arctic Borders international conference in Tromso, Norway.…
CI Producer Kevin Strychalski chats with Katherine Dimopoulos, Head of Marketing & Brand Experience, SCENE LP Scotiabank, about her upcoming session at the Brand Optimization conference on February 25-26, 2013. Good morning Katherine. Can you give delegates some insight into your current role and responsibilities? I head up the marketing and brand experience for SCENE. …
Why Google is wooing Canada’s ad agencies Google Canada’s Adam Green is exaggerating. Standing in front of a full room at Toronto advertising agency John St., he boasts about an award-winning promotion for a shoe store in Guatemala, to make the point that great digital campaigns don’t need to cost a lot of money. The…
Our Misplaced, Undemocratic Budget Priorities: The Case of Keystone XL by Eleanor Bader, posted on TruthOut Several years ago, political economist Robert Reich asked a rhetorical question that bears repeating: “Wouldn’t it be better to have a jobs program that created things we really need – like light-rail trains, better school facilities, public parks, water…
Coastal Technical Sales Inc. Now Installing Storage Tanks in Chemical Plants This Winter, posted on SBWire Many plants have an excess of chemicals that need storage either above ground or underground. Whether volatile chemicals or acids and bases, the proper installation of storage tanks will increase the life of the chemicals and the safety of…
Union ready to enlist PQ help to stop inquiry /The Canadian Press, Montreal, Jan. 21, 2014/ – A wiretap conversation heard at Quebec’s corruption inquiry suggests the province’s largest labour federation was ready to enlist the help of friends at the Parti Quebecois to make sure such a probe didn’t take place. The wiretap is…
Casting doubt on Hudak’s job plan, posted on The Toronto Star Hudak pledges to create one million jobs in Ontario, Jan. 13. So Tim Hudak is going to save Ontario. He is going to freeze the public service. Perhaps he didn’t notice that freezing the public service wages over the past five years to give…
Company pursues ‘aggressive’ northwestern BC liquefied natural gas timeline by Anna Killen, posted on the Terrace Standard Kitsault Energy, the company wishing to build a liquefied natural gas facility close to the near-abandoned town of Kitsault, says it’s working within an “aggressive timeline” to bring its project through to the development and operational stage of…
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