By Janet Lin
Even when most businesses went into lockdown in response to COVID-19, Canadians still needed to feel there was somewhere safe they could go to get food, medications and other essential products. As Canada’s leading food and pharmacy retailer, Loblaw had a big role to play in responding...
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By Martin Aubut
An Internet connection may not be quite as important as food and water, but during COVID-19 it’s probably safe to say it became an important staple for consumers and businesses alike.
For those living in a small, quarantined area, for example, services like phone, TV and Internet...
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By Philippe Hammond
Packaging is an essential part of manufacturing, whether you’re talking about feed for animals or food for humans. It’s one of several areas Premier Tech has made its speciality over the past 97 years — and an area where we continue to flourish, even during COVID-19.
Within our...
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By Chef Chris Zielinski, Culinary Director, MLSE
On June 13, 2019, the Toronto Raptors won the 2019 NBA Championship, for the first time in franchise history, and marked a historic moment at Scotiabank Arena in terms of teamwork, all-out effort and community spirit. Though we might never have...
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By April Oman, Senior Vice President of Customer Engagement
For the last 20 years, our unofficial motto at D2L, a Canadian-headquartered education-technology company, has been “changing the way the world learns.” We’ve been steadily delivering on that motto year after year, growing into a global...
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By Andrew Pittam
Our business is all about designing and building experiences that bring people together, whether it’s a trade show exhibit, a pop-up retail display or something related to a live event. To say the pandemic has had an impact on us is an understatement.
Given that government social...
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By Chuck McKitrick
The vision for our company has always been to help put Canadians into homes, and to help others achieve their financial freedom. While the world has changed a lot amid the recent pandemic, that vision has remained the same — we just deliver on it very differently.
Even before...
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By Ben Hertzman, Chief Operating Officer at Luv2Pak
When this crisis began, we realized early on that we had a unique opportunity as a company to help and give back.
Although the average Canadian consumer might not recognize our name, they’ve almost certainly used our products, because we supply...
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Of all the memes that captured the public’s attention in 2019, ‘OK Boomer” is probably the one companies should keep in mind as they develop their customer service teams.
The meme started as a series of dismissive replies to a video on the social media platform TikTok, where an unidentified older...
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