“There are rules to constructing a cabinet: You wouldn’t appoint an education minister with kids in private schools. You wouldn’t give a man with a record of wife-beating responsibility for women’s issues. And you don’t give a roly-poly smoker the prestigious health ministry.”
-Christina Blizzard, ‘Caplan’s no picture of health’, Queen’s Park, Toronto Sun
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Because people still judge a book by its cover
Posted in Corporate Communications, Government, News, elections, tagged Cabinet, David Caplan, George Smitherman, Government, Health, media, Media Relations, Ministry of Health, News, Ontario, Toronto Sun on June 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Revolution will be televised – Pt 2
Posted in tv, tagged Grey's Anatomy, media, music, The Fray, tv on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you are unfamiliar with how powerful a medium, TV dramas are for the music industry let me just give you an example.
Most people who live in the western world are familiar with ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. However, before 2006, very few knew of the band “The Fray”. They have actually been around since 2002. In [...]
Deadlines face extinction in Halton
Posted in deadlines, tagged due dates, Halton, journalism, media, students on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So apparently students in the Halton School district are no longer subject to pesky things like deadlines.
This is what I learned a couple days ago through Lorraine Sommerfeld’s column in the Toronto Star. Her piece, suitably titled “Memo to schools: Even Blockbuster has due date”, highlighted a new policy enacted by the Halton School Board [...]
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