This is one of today’s headlines from The Vancouver Sun: “It’s election day get out and vote”. (Above link may decay.) (c) 2005 by Andrea Coutu. Vancouver Marketing Consultant. All rights reserved.

In January, I posted an article about some dealings I had with the marketing team at Molson. Since then, I’ve had a surprising number of requests for contact information for Molson’s VP and CMO. I haven’t handed over this information for three reasons: It would be unethical to do so. Information disclosed to me by […]

Vancouver 6000 — what does it mean? According to a search engine tool I use to identify popular keywords, about 3900 people searched for “Vancouver 6000” last month. Can anyone tell me what this term means? (c) 2005 by Andrea Coutu. Vancouver Marketing Consultant. All rights reserved.

Vancouver’s Brooks Duncan recently launched Vancouver.AskLocally.com. Drawing from the comraderie of long-forgotten Usenet groups, Ask Locally allows locals to ask other locals for the skinny on everything from airfares to zoos. (c) 2005 by Andrea Coutu. Vancouver Marketing Consultant. All rights reserved.

This past month, Vancouverites saw the launch of Dose, 24 Hours and Metro — three new daily newspapers. The short, snappy news coverage suits the attention span of commuters, although traditionalists might claim that these dailies are to news what Kraft Dinner is to Fettucine Alfredo. To be sure, some content in the new dailies […]

Via Jan Karslbjerg, some shortcuts for Microsoft Outlook. PC Magazine also has general shortcuts for the entire Microsoft Office suite. I was delighted to learn that, in Word, Shift-F3 changes the case of letters. And how have I gone so long without knowing that the Windows key will bring up the “Start” menu? (c) 2005 […]

Ask Jeeves has purchased Bloglines, the leading free service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing RSS feeds and blogs. In recent months, Google, Yahoo and MSN have added blogs to their portals. However, through Bloglines, Ask Jeeves will tap a popular, powerful blog tool. This may help the company to shed its fifth-place ranking in […]

Molson Canada has redeemed itself. Last summer, I entered a contest and was informed, by email, that I had won — on the condition that I answer a skill-testing question. I immediately responded. Two months passed. I emailed several Molson email addresses, including the head of the ad agency responsible for the campaign. Two more […]

Today’s Vancouver Sun carries a story about a little girl who unknowingly ingested water mixed with GHB, a street drug. The girl’s father left the water bottle on the counter overnight. Police have recommended a charge of criminal negligence, but prosecutors have not formally charged the man. Vancouver Police have not identified him, in order […]

CIBC customers got a big surprise when a bank machine in New Brunswick spat out Canadian Tire money this week. The bank, already under fire for faxing private documents to a West Virginia junkyard, suspects a business customer put the money into a cash drop. No word on the suspects, who must “Spend like Santa; […]