(Not) leavin’ on a jet plane

If you’ve been to New York recently and happened to be flying out via LaGuardia, you’ve probably experienced a delay.Occasionally it’s short, often it can stretch in to a couple of hours or more.And an advance call to your airline doesn’t...

Advertising or PR?

I needed a good cup of coffee after reading a story by Globe and Mail reporter Jennifer Wells about a new Maxwell House advertising campaign entitled ‘Brew Some Good’.It turns out the ad agency decided to go minimalist with its TV spot, spending $19,000 on...

A-rain-ment

Last week I was fortunate enough to be in Manhattan for work.And while Ontario’s TV ads may claim, ‘there’s no place like this…’, they really should be referring to New York City.It happened to be raining on my second day, constant but...

I still don’t get…

…Twitter. (Does that make me a twit?)I’ve read about it. Registered. Checked out the site. Tried to follow a few people. Got frustrated. Read a bit more. Looked for enlightenment in Robert Scoble’s recent post.And yet it still seems a bit banal. I...

Put that in your pipe and smoke it

In a recent Inside PR podcast, I was taken to task for my statement (and I’m paraphrasing) that in Canada, tobacco companies are legal entities and, while most of us would say that smoking is bad for you, tobacco companies, like other Canadian corporations, are...