Phub (short for phone snub) means to ignore someone or not give them your full attention because you are looking at a mobile phone or tablet. The word is appearing in some American dictionaries but I am not sure if the Oxford Dictionary – it added double-double, as in double cream and sugar, to its […]
Vicki Gilhula
It’s only rock ‘n’ roll
This past summer I went back to school. I took a free Coursera online course about the music of the Rolling Stones. One might wonder what the heck I am going to do with this knowledge. Absolutely nothing. I took the course for fun and I actually learned a lot about the history of the […]
We’re happy and we know it
By now you have read or heard that according to a recent Statistics Canada study, Sudbury citizens are the happiest folks in Canada. That’s a made-in-heaven slogan for the city’s next branding campaign. If I remember correctly, about 10 years ago a marketing/advertising agency was hired to create a brand for Sudbury that would promote […]
Sudbury, dare to dream
Readers may be aware the city and the Greater Sudbury Development Corporation, with the encouragement of Mayor Brian Bigger, are asking citizens to dream about Sudbury 2025. Community consultations took place from mid-February to mid-March. There is also an online questionnaire. The results of the consultations are expected to be published in June. What’s new […]
Hard Rock Television
Season 2 of Hard Rock Medical, TVO’s first commissioned drama series, on February 15, 2015 at 8 pm. […]
We need to blow our horn
In new Winter issue, readers will meet Kimberly Daley (Pg. 38), a Toronto dental hygienist, who volunteers her services and encourages other to the same during an annual visit to Jamaica. Daley is the woman behind Nine Miles of Smiles. She grew up in Sudbury. So did Dax Wilkinson, the Toronto entrepreneur behind the successful […]
Secrets of our success
A few years ago when I interviewed author Margaret Atwood—she has a keen knowledge of the shaky economic health of Canada’s culture industries such as books, magazines and music—she asked me how Sudbury Living Magazine survived. Even before the internet, all Canadian magazines including the biggest titles had challenges securing advertising revenue and distributing […]
