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Deep discount on advertising sparks

Nov 20, 2019
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Newsletter is out: no frills gains brand consciousness
parkdalelife.substack.comOur brand is frillIn 2017, I decided to make some fun t-shirts. Like all the merch I had made I was going to sell a few hundred, donate the money to the Parkdale Community Food Bank, and that was it, a silly side project. I love the No Frills in Parkdale, and if you live in Parkdale, I’m sure I don’t need to explain …
9:55 PM ∙ Nov 19, 2019

The idea of creating No Frills–inspired merchandise as a food bank fundraiser, via the Instagram account @parkdalelife, was a unique enough idea to get mainstream media attention. But this classic type of “culture jamming” is now quick to be co-opted by a company: Parkdale Life’s swag seemed to inspire No Name’s recent marketing overkill.


Requiem for free transit dailies

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Only 18 months after Torstar launched its Star Metro bureaus and hired new journalists, the newspaper giant has decided to layoff 73 employees in five newsrooms in pursuit of a different vision. #cdnmedia #cdnpoli
thetyee.caStarMetro Vancouver to Shut Down in Torstar Cost-Cutting Move | The TyeeFive more daily newspapers shuttered, 73 jobs lost across Canada.
3:10 AM ∙ Nov 20, 2019
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Torstar touted a new era of investigative journalism in April 2018, when five editions of Metro—which factored in a newspaper swap with Postmedia that remains under investigation—were retooled to try and drive paid digital subscriptions. The scheme is being discontinued with layoffs, but Torstar is creating a few new digital bureau jobs.


Christie Blatchford couldn’t make it to her induction into the Canadian News Hall of Fame. Cancer treatments have temporarily sidelined the National Post columnist, whose career legacy was honoured at a gala in Toronto. Also inducted was Toronto Sun fixture Lorrie Goldstein, who has rebounded from a stroke that he suffered last year.


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Bell voices out in the cold

The latest round of Bell Media staff cuts included CFRA Ottawa host Rob Snow and CKTB St. Catharines host Larry Fedoruk amidst its talk radio stations shuffling slots around a national Evan Solomon. Economics also appear to be behind the dismissal of a longtime morning duo in Lindsay, Ontario, whose fans took to the streets in protest:

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Community rallies behind radio hosts Dave and Julie who were let go from BOB FM last week.
mykawartha.comBOB FM listeners rally to have longtime morning show hosts reinstatedA small group of supporters took to the street Monday (Nov. 18) afternoon in an effort to reboot BOB FM’s morning show. Dave Illman and Julie Corlett were laid off Thursday (Nov. 14) by station...
7:21 PM ∙ Nov 18, 2019
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Celine Dion’s new record inspires contemplation about how anyone ever loathed her. Carl Wilson’s review for Slate revisits the thesis of his 2007 book examining Dion’s album from a decade earlier. Back then, Dion symbolized its subtitle, A Journey to the End of Taste. (Now she’s a queer icon who sings “shit” on a song from Courage.)


A city blogger leaves the city

Vancouver Is Awesome, which aging skateboarder Bob Kronbauer launched in 2007 as a solo website about a city he moved back to, became a professional outlet owned by a division of Glacier Media. But that still didn’t mean Kronbauer could find a suitably affordable place for his family to live—and so, he’s started commuting from suburbia:

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An atypical "Dear Vancouver" letter from our founder @BobKronbauer who just moved to the burbs
vancouverisawesome.comDear Vancouver, the suburbs are awesome tooAfter 12 years of running Vancouver Is Awesome while living in this city, as of today, I’m no longer a resident of it. I’m now a daily commuter to our office in Mount Pleasant. But this is not one of those “Dear Vancouver” letters. You know the ones: someone will move away, and instead of …
1:11 AM ∙ Nov 20, 2019
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