Mar 16th, 2010
Wireless provider throws carnival to celebrate its misspent marketing scheme
“WIND Mobile a ‘cautionary tale’ for other new cellphone players to enter market” reported the Canadian Press last week, regarding a report from market research and technology firm the SeaBoard Group. Buoyed by its Egyptian ownership’s enthusiasm for successfully lobbying to compete in Canada after a protracted protectionist struggle, parent company Globalive Wireless has spent [...]
Mar 16th, 2010
Toronto’s Woodstock looks like a weekend of rock karaoke
Sketchy plans for the IMAGINE Music and Arts Festival surfaced on Torontoist last month, reprinted the following day in The Globe and Mail, with a promise to reveal more details in mid-March. Well, that is now, and they have a bit more of a website, and — the vow to resurrect the spirit of Woodstock [...]
Mar 16th, 2010
Daily Scroll: March 16, 2010
Today on the Scroll: chasing Kelly Cutrone; hiding Genies; shaming Mindy Cohn. Kelly in blunderland [Shinan Govani, National Post]: Kelly Cutrone, schoolmarm publicist character from The Hills, comes to town to promote her book If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things You Mother Never Told You and it’s all just one lucrative [...]
Mar 15th, 2010
Five more YouTube video questions Stephen Harper is most likely to smoke out
“Marijuana Issue Tops Online Questions For Canada’s PM” crows Cannabis Culture about the questions garnering the most thumbs-up in submissions to the TalkCanada channel on YouTube — solicited for a Tuesday night interview with Stephen Harper, brought to you by Google, whose chief financial officer Patrick Pichette used to work for Bell Canada, and therefore [...]
Mar 15th, 2010
Corey Haim funeral financing flap reveals secret cabal of Toronto Tea Partiers
“City of Toronto Covering Corey’s Funeral” read the online story posted by Access Hollywood on Saturday night, picked up Sunday afternoon by People, then quickly followed by a terse non-denial by Kevin Sack of the city’s Strategic Communications office. What could possibly compel those seeking help for funeral costs from the Employment and Social Services [...]
Mar 15th, 2010
Daily Scroll: March 15, 2010
Today on the Scroll: partying in the NBA; cribbing from GQ; arguing with the NDP. Why Pro Athletes Love Toronto [Wall Street Journal]: Is it because of the way WSJ stories are tricky to access for free online that local newspapers find it a less obvious source to purloin? This one from last Wednesday made the [...]
Mar 12th, 2010
How to fail in the gangsta rap business without really trying
It’s not everyday that an investor uses a magazine like Canadian Business to extend an invitation to any reader with $25 million to spare to wash their hands of an iconic entertainment brand — but so goes Death Row Records, whose music catalogue was unexpectedly won at a bankruptcy auction in early 2009 by a [...]
Mar 12th, 2010
Daily Scroll: March 12, 2010
Today on the Scroll: dealing with Gene Simmons; the unheard CP24; teevee Tavi. Gene Simmons Makes Good On Label Threat [Billboard]: What else is the Canadian Music Week conference for but a platform for the KISS demon to announce deal? A year after relaunching Simmons Records — a joint venture with Belinda Stronach (pictured) in partnership [...]
Mar 11th, 2010
The five YouTube video questions Stephen Harper is least likely to answer (so far)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is back from a winter-long vacation and ready to crush it! And, since lazy newspapers of every political stripe love nothing more than to freely pass off the thoughts of generally unidentifiable YouTube user names as authoritative vox populi, the Conservative Party of Canada will give them exactly what they want. [...]
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