Monthly Archives: July 2012
Canadian Tire still doesn’t wave the flag in Quebec
Canadian Tire’s Quebec flyer for this week: Mentions Canada Day, but no Canadian flag on sale
I guess we should be used to it: Canadian Tire is still downplaying its Canadianness in Quebec.
I wrote about this a year ago when someone spotted that the chain was running different flyers inside and outside this province, with the ones inside the province being noticeably less patriotic. At the time, the company said it wasn’t hiding its Canadianness in Quebec, even though the bilingual flyer outside the province had “Canada Day” on it and the one inside didn’t.
Time for everyone’s favourite game show: “Is It Still Good?”
You know how to play. Look at the photos below and judge for yourself: Is this good enough to pick out of the garbage?
If you like what you see, you win it! Just find it on the street and grab it before someone else does.
CRTC looks at ending MuchMusic/MusiquePlus monopoly
Want to sit down and watch a TV channel that just airs music videos all day? Your options are actually artificially limited, but the CRTC could soon be making it a lot easier for people to start up music-based specialty channels.
In April, the CRTC opened a call for comments about allowing more competition in channels devoted to popular music, in the same way it opened up competition for two other genres it deemed mature enough – sports and news.