May 7th 2011--The Toronto Freedom Festival was a day full of sunny skies, heavenly smoke and marijuana enthusiasts of all varieties. Approximately, 30,000 young, old, politically driven, and plain old weed hobbyists all gathered at Queens Park this past Saturday to peacefully protest and raise awareness of worthy causes. The crowd was decadent in their ...
Written by Michael Potash. Throughout history individuals have been censored and restricted from sharing information. However in our modern and "free" society, we now have not only the rights, but also the means to share what we want with whomever we want. Two of the most recent examples of this freedom coming to fruition were the ...
Written by Michael Potash.Are today’s ad students fully prepared for life in the industry? While the schools may say yes, many agencies might disagree. One of the biggest complaints coming from agencies today is that the current generation of young ad students has limitless brilliance, but no work ethic.More and more students coming out of ...
Sophannieta Diseased enterprise suffers from disassembling our corporate cultures from the grand colourful personalities that we all are. Family, for one, seems like a fleeting notion in our corporate lives. In addition to, we forget that those shared values and beliefs, including family, are all part of culture, which is a discursive process. It does not ...
It's time to come out of the cold and spring into a new level of awareness surrounding the sensitive issue of prostate cancer and the Black community. Canadian Black men are 65% more likely to get prostate cancer than white men and almost three times more likely to die from the disease! Sway Magazine will raise ...
You know what I’m tired of? Companies starting their product’s/brand’s name with the lower case 'i'. No seriously. Stop it. First off, you’re not taking away market share from Apple, just strengthening their brand. Secondly, just because you may not be in the computer, tech, smart-phone, or music player device business, doesn’t mean you’re allowed to ...
"You want the world to be stupid-proof. You want everything to be super easy and super thoughtless. A little unrealistic. What's wrong with having to think a little?" The above was a daring, and stupid question I asked my wife and Creative Director, Lannie, in the evening of March 15th, 2011. Below was her ...
This isn't a good time for neither Bell nor Rogers to defend UBB or any of their traffic management practices. Bell just publicly admitted their failure to count bytes, while Rogers have received several warnings from the CRTC regarding unfairly throttling. In the meantime, indie ISP TekSavvy just upped their 200GB plan to 300GB in ...
In my younger years I never really thought much of what I was going to do with my life. Why you ask? I simply wasn't interested in academia at that point. I just wanted to enjoy my youth and push that type of "grown up" thinking to the side. Travelling became ...
A website is a website is a website--well not really. In this day of an age, having an aesthetically pleasing and well functioning website is as important as making sure your buttons are in the correct holes of your shirt. Sure, your shirt may be closed, but executed haphazardly you risk everyone else misjudging your function, ...
