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Posted: March 29, 2012 | 9:50 ET
It's called Bill C-11 and in many ways it's Canada's version of the infamous US House of Representatives and Senate Internet Privacy Bills that have sparked such conflict in recent months. South of the border the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) have media conglomerates and technology companies going head-to-head, the former battling against pirated content and the latter combatting what it perceives to be censorship.
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Posted: March 7, 2012 | 11:48 ET
Read about The Globe's Editor-in-Chief, John Stackhouse's visit and fascinating evening with Russia's newly elected president and current prime minister, Vladimir Putin, which ended with John Stackhouse and president Putin driving through the dark streets of Moscow in Putin's armoured sports car�to play pick-up hockey.
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Posted: December 18, 2009 | 10:07 ET
Mad Men meets the Shopping Channel If you haven't found the perfect gift for someone on your list, the folks at Vancouver's Wasserman + Partners might have just what you need. The ad agency has unveiled a unique line of holiday-themed gifts, including the Santa Beard Mop for cranberry sauce spills; holiday-scented air fresheners in turkey, eggnog or Yule log scents; and seasonal avian-flu masks to halt the spread of germs. Our favourite is the Scotch tape dispenser, which dispenses both Scotch and tape simultaneously. You can wrap gifts while you rap to the Wasserman Holiday Shopping Channel's RemiXmas CD.
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Tags: Video , Government , Television , Online , Out of Home , Mobile/Wireless , Social Media , Research , Sports Marketing
Posted: December 4, 2009 | 10:57 ET
Emboldened by our new-found frugality, it seems we consumers now want downtrodden companies to actually pay us to watch their ads. A global survey by marketing research firm Synovate finds that although more than two-thirds of us think there are too many ads on television and try to avoid them by flipping channels, 42 per cent of us would gladly watch more ads if companies would make it worth our while, perhaps in the form of a lower cable or Internet bill. So just to recap: Lower our cable bills and we promise not to use the skip function on our DVRs.
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