Friday 28 December 2012

ICA announces 2013 board of directors


ICA announces 2013 board of directors
 December 11, 2012 by Val Maloney

The Institute of Communications Agencies has announced its 2013 board of directors, with Andrew Bruce, CEO of Publicis as chair. Bruce was most recently vice chair of the ICA board and chair of Advertising Week. Past chair Laurie Young, managing director at Ogilvy, will now chair the board of governors, which provides strategic counsel to the board of directors, according to a release.

Police struggle as Twitter users reveal impaired driving checkstops


Police struggle as Twitter users reveal impaired driving checkstops
JOSH WINGROVE EDMONTON — The Globe and Mail
Last updated Sunday, Dec. 23 2012, 10:53 PM EST
It’s the key principle of a police checkstop: the locations are kept under wraps, so drunk drivers can’t easily avoid them. But in a social-media era, that’s not always the case. Police officers across Canada continue to grapple with Twitter users revealing the location of impaired driving checkstops, which ramp up during the holiday season. An Edmonton bar was under fire for revealing one such location, and last week, Alberta’s Minister of Justice and Solicitor-General Jonathan Denis took to Twitter himself to berate the user behind an account dedicated entirely to revealing locations of Calgary checkstops.