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What the first ads say about the election campaign

Dennis Matthews: The ad war can win or lose an election. We now have a good sense of where the attack lines are being drawn by the Liberals and Tories.

The one story that could save your life—well, maybe not

Get to know the companies making millions off those ugly promises you can’t avoid online

How does Google know what I’m looking at?

Active View is supposed to reveal whether or not an online display ad was seen

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The Conservatives’ new ad. No, not Rae, the other one.

Everyone’s going to be talking about the giggling Bob Rae ad the Conservatives finally get to unleash, five years after they prepared similar ads on the assumption Rae would win the 2006 Liberal leadership.

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Age of Persuasion

My review of Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant’s book, sort-of-based on their very excellent CBC radio show Age of Persuasion, was published this weekend.

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Errrr, huh?

The beavers, I understood. Sure, they could annoy, but Bell’s spokesanimals were generally funny little pitchmen.   The new Bell campaign, however, confuses me. Bell has bombarded the country with its new ads, featuring its name in blue and the two letters ‘e’ and ‘r’.