From the category archives:
A few days ago, I wrote about how I despise the McDonald’s and Coke sponsorship of Olympic athletes. Today, I want to share a few better Olympic sponsorship videos with you.
American Ski Champ and Organic Farmer: Bode Miller
Hockey Players and Egg Farmers of Canada: Hayley Wickenheiser and Kim St.Pierre
Thanks to Lisa from from Borden [...]
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Earlier this week, Canada welcomed a new hero into its hearts. Not only the winner of our first gold medal during these Olympics, but the winner of the first Olympic gold ever won by a Canadian on Canadian soil, and a genuine good human being too. Alexandre Bilodeau is just the type of person I [...]
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Last week a mother found an industrial staple in her son’s Gerber Graduates pasta. This week, the Canadian Stroke Network gave its Salt Lick Award to Gerber Graduates. According to the press release [emphasis mine]:
Two of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence – the Canadian Stroke Network and the Advanced Foods & Materials Network – [...]
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There was a twitter party tonight where Kraft was promising to donate 50 boxes of Kraft Dinner (KD) for every tweet with the #bluebox hash tag. The goal was to reach one million boxes of KD being donated. Kraft’s donation drive, in conjunction with Feeding America, uses the slogan “Share a Little Comfort.” The thing [...]
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Today is Blog Action Day 2009. Last year’s theme was poverty and I effortlessly wrote a long post about our Empathy Deficit and how it is preventing us from making poverty history.
This year’s theme is climate change. Just a few days ago I was listening to Tim Flannery on CBC radio talking about his latest [...]
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This is one of a series of posts that features Nestle’s answers to my questions that came out of the Nestle Family event. To access the other questions and answers, go to follow-up questions for Nestle and click on the questions you are interested in. Answers will be posted as they are received and analyzed.
Question
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This is one of a series of posts that features Nestle’s answers to my questions that came out of the Nestle Family event. To access the other questions and answers, go to follow-up questions for Nestle and click on the questions you are interested in. Answers will be posted as they are received and analyzed.
Question
You [...]
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Last week a group of mom and dad bloggers were invited on an all-expenses paid trip to Nestle (see background info here if you are new to this issue). Some of the bloggers took some questions and concerns of their own, of mine, of our community and raised them with Nestle. While some of them [...]
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Dear bloggers,
I learned about the Nestle Family blogger event with dismay when a friend e-mailed me about it. I was happy to hear that she had declined their invitation and hoped that many of the other mommy bloggers that I hold in high regard would follow suit. When I later saw the list of people [...]
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On Sunday I wandered up and down the aisles of the grocery store wondering what kind of cupcakes to make for my son to take to school. Then it struck me. I could use my delicious zucchini bread recipe and add cream cheese icing to the top for a more interesting and healthier option than [...]
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