Mayor Meets Premier: We Have Questions
In a municipal announcement, led with a screaming all-caps headline like a toddler in a toy store tantrum, the Town of Collingwood published a short statement from Mayor Hamlin about…
Communications
Collingwood’s Broken Windows
NB. This post was first published on Dec. 9, 2021 If I sometimes seem to complain in a picayune manner, harping on the same signs of scruffiness and neglect that…
Failures in Cwood’s Typography and Design
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style (Hartley & Marks Publishers, 2001) I’m neither a graphic designer…
Plain language, power, and politics #nlpoli
In the midst of a political controversy over recent fishing quotas in NEwfoundland and Labrador, two people are talking about the need for better communication about science and the fishing…
Setting the agenda #nlpoli
In a set of media interviews this week, Premier Dwight Ball thought he would be talking about what’s he learned in his first year in office, what motivates him, and…
Separation and Your Children’s Education
With school now back in session, what better time is there to consider how best to co-parent with your former spouse regarding your child(ren)’s education: What are best practices when…
Separation and Your Children’s Education
With school now back in session, what better time is there to consider how best to co-parent with your former spouse regarding your child(ren)’s education: What are best practices when…
Designing Type
Karen Cheng’s 2005 book, Designing Type, is the third of the recent books on typography I have received*. Of the three, it is the most technical, appealing to the typophile…
Uncommunicative again
Did you receive your “spring” newsletter from the town? The one delivered on the first day of summer (or later), lacking any actual news… yes, that one. To me it…
The Gauche in the Machine
Rudibus ex machina: criticizing Collingwood’s latest newsletter feels a bit like punching a puppy. Or commenting on the sloppy grammar of local bloggers. Both are far too easy, like catching…
Alberta’s NDP needs to react more quickly, plus throw the Tories under the bus where they belong
PHOTOS: Carbon capture: The oil company executive in the bow tie places the carbon in a bottle, which is then stored underground by his corporation for billions of dollars. Or…
Stop talking to me about ‘launch’
This still happens. Some big content production – often a video, but also a text report or research piece – is ready to go and the powers-that-be want to make…
Mind-Numbing Sameness #nlpoli
The Conservatives were looking to the by-election in Conception bay South to break their losing streak. As it seems now as voters in the district head to the polls on…
Preparing Liberal activists to communicate to win in 2015
This blog is cross-posted from my LPC(O) vice-president, communications web site. Please visit there to learn more about my campaign. I first considered seeking the position of vice-president, communications of…
I’m running for LPC(O) vice-president communications
I am excited to announce I have decided to seek the position of vice-president, communications of the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario). There is tremendous opportunity for our party to…
Taking nothing out #nlpoli
Sometimes a comment is so profoundly revealing you just can’t let it slide by. This one came from Milly Brown, the Premier’s communications director, in an exchange with Simon Lono…
Electioneering in the guise of consultation – it’s tawdry & cynical and has to stop!
I wonder how many Manitobans have received an email from their Manitoba NDP MLA entitled “A Fairer Deal for Renters.” I wonder how many are as pissed off as I…
The $150K Communications Audit #nlpoli
Poor Jerome Kennedy. They sent him out today to explain to reporters what the government got for its $150,000 audit by Fleishman-Hillard in later 2011. Kennedy had a hard time…
No adult supervision #nlpoli
Not even 24 hours after the Premier insisted that the daily layoffs would continue until finance minister Jerome Kennedy delivered his budget speech, Jerome issued a news release – at…
2013 Ontario Liberal Party Leadership
Eric Hoskins | Gerard Kennedy | Sandra Pupatello | Charles Sousa | Harinder Takhar | Kathleen Wynne Omar Ha-Redeye will be provided coverage of the 2013 Leadership Convention as an…