Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'theeconomist'
May 1, 2008
Dubaimetro Naming Rights Turn your brand into a destination RTA offers Dubai Metro Naming Rights Welcome to the ultimate branding and marketing opportunity. With Dubai Metro Naming Rights, you can put your brand on a Dubai Metro station of your choice, or one of the two lines of the Dubai Metro Network. Dubai Metro Naming Rights offers you unmatched impact and visibility to take your brand to new levels of saliency and success. What's......
Continue Reading "Schooled By Dubai Do"September 6, 2007
Warren Kinsella has a diatribe in today’s Post (that’s National, not Midtown) about trashy celeb magazines. Their circulation is up, Time’s circulation is down, more people care about P. Diddy than national politics, yada yada yada. At the end he encourages us to "pick up quite a few more copies of The Economist and U.S. News and World Report. And the National Post, naturally." Right. So since Kinsella seems to consider the Post totally......
Continue Reading "Warren Kinsella Rags on the Rags"October 19, 2006
When Canadians want satire we turn TV figures like Rick Mercer, but satire, that most difficult of comedic genres, is virtually dead in CanLit. Or is it? Randy Boyagoda's debut novel The Governor of the Northern Province is a satire so dark that you can almost hear all of the squirming amongst those expecting the typical Canadian novel. Boyagoda tells the story of Bokarie, an African war criminal who somehow escapes to Canada and......
Continue Reading "IFOA: Randy Boyagoda"October 5, 2005
The Economist Intelligence Unit posted the results of their 'Most Liveable Cities' survey, and though Vancouver, Melbourne and Perth scooped top berth, Toronto made the top ten and garnered a 9th place finish. None too shabby considering our town's seemingly endless flow of mishap and bad luck of late. CBC Unplugged describes these rankings as less about most good, and more about least bad("the honour is based in large part on an absence of......
Continue Reading "The Absence of Awfulness"