Monday, November 30, 2009
Oxford University Press has just chose ‘unfriend’ as the word of the year for 2009. Unfriend refers to removing someone as a friend on a social networking site such as Facebook.
The word unfriend beats out H1N1 or swine flu, death panel (American body opposing healthcare reform), funemployed (enjoying one’s unemployment) and hashtag (sort themed [...]
Thursday, November 26, 2009
I was once told that American Thanksgiving was all about the football games – “Praise the Lord and pass the gravy!”
Of course, not everyone believes this. American humourist Erma Bombeck mused: “If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”
However, even she admitted: “ Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen [...]
Thursday, November 26, 2009
This e-mail was recently sent to me by my good friend Dick Inwood in Ottawa. We share a fondness for honest, hardworking people – and for our politicians to be honest and hard-working. This piece is one of those e-mails that makes its way around the Net every now and again. Yet, it deserves to be [...]
Saturday, November 21, 2009
CG&A COMMUNICATIONS has produced three striking posters – By George Inspirations – that evoke both inspiration and motivation. We have selected a few quotes and highlighted the passages with remarkable imagery. The results are posters that look great on an office wall or in a rec room. These are perfect Christmas gifts for work colleagues [...]
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. – Baruch Spinoza
A people free to choose will always choose peace. – Ronald Reagan
It isn’t [...]
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Today our company announced the creation of an advisor board to advise both ourselves and our clients on the health care sector in Ontario. The board will provide counsel and insight into the many competing agendas within the health care sector as well as input into on-going stakeholder relations and communications practices.
The CG&A COMMUNICATIONS [...]