Happy landings, Royal Canadian Air Farce
Fittingly, they picked April Fools’ Day to announce it: the Royal Canadian Air Farce is coming in for a landing. In 1978, my parents took me to see the Farce’s original lineup – Luba Goy, Don Ferguson, Dave Broadfoot, the late John Morgan and Roger...Barack Obama’s speech on race
Back in the 1993 federal election, then-Prime Minister Kim Campbell was quoted as saying that elections are no time to discuss serious issues. (If memory serves, her comment was actually much more nuanced, but was dumbed down to that pithy, sensational and damaging...They never tell you what you REALLY want to know
CBC: Truck packed with newly minted coins crashes in B.C. And apparently it rolled downhill. (No serious injuries.) And nowhere in the story does the CBC answer the question on everyone’s mind: Heads or tails?…And THAT’S why you study grammar in high school
Think you wasted all that time on indefinite pronoun references in high school English class? Here’s how The Guardian (usually no slouch in the putting together of the words) reported on the recent Danish election: Rasmussen was opposed by a four-party...The Tyee is hiring a marketing coordinator
Heads up, any of you marketers who are sick of selling cigarettes to toddlers (or just feeling a little unmotivated about the social impact of your work) and looking for something a little more aligned with your values. How about a job with one of Canada’s...
Why, yes — I’d LOVE to speak at your event
Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
