The Really Brief

Air Canada is ‘ready for takeoff’, Toys R Us Canada partners with Autism Speaks Canada, Yield hires Patricia Medwell and Corby Spirit and Wine is #StillOpen.

Heinz sells ketchup puzzles for charity, President’s Choice brings back Insiders Report and Trigger Calgarians to skip food delivery apps.

SkipTheDishes is “Hamm-ing” it up in a thank you ad; FCB Canada promotes Crimi-Lamanna to CCO; Coors Light is urging Canadians to recreate “The shot.”

Union offers excuses to leave your camera off during Zoom meetings; the OMA and Yield thank Ontario healthcare workers; National Advertising Challenge makes changes for 2020; and Mixtape introduce ‘pay what you can.’

Canada Goose will start making medical gowns and scrubs; Aviation Gin and MaxTV Media want to help bars and restaurants; and Metro donates $1 million to help with food insecurity.

Reitman’s become Reitwoman for International Women’s Day; Knix celebrates women 50 and over; new clients for Colony Digital.

The Green Organic Dutchman launches a ‘budtender’ program with Fuse; Two new VPs at Forsman & Bodenfors; and Narrative wins Volvo.

J.P. Wiser’s and Boston Pizza team up for a Leap Year promotion; WW Canada partners with meat subscription service truLOCAL and Facebook users can now add music to posts.

Kate Upton featured in new Canada Goose campaign; Jon Hamm’s back for Skip the Dishes; Heinz promotes its twisted label; and creatives pick #SnickersFixTheWorld as their favourite Super Bowl ad.

Jungle Media wins AOR for The Keg; Fast Company founder keynotes CMDC dinner; Muggsy is back for GoDaddy; and Connor McDavid stars for Go Auto.

Air Canada partners with
Cirque du Soleil; Bond Brand Loyalty hires Brian McLean as president; Jon Crowley joins Diamond Marketing Group.

J.P. Wiser invites Harry and Meghan for drinks; Tank hosting Portfolio Night; CUPE goes long; and H+K makes a new senior hire in Quebec.

Tim Hortons has a new leader; Martha Stewart is Subway’s new spokeperson; Pizza Pizza is launching keto-friendly crust and McDonald’s partners with TSN.

Rethink introduces a Conversation Platter; McDonald’s Canada and Ronald McDonald House team up for holiday campaign and Leo Burnett’s AI-driven gift ideas.

Cossette pencils in a campaign for Amnesty International; Juniper Park\TBWA launches Le Park design studio, and Pizza Pizza is hoopin’ with its new boxes.

Canadian winners from the Clio Entertainment Awards, new wild postings from Rethink for Vancouver’s Battered Women’s Support Service, Carl’s Jr. has a pay-what-you-want promotion for Black Friday and KFC Canada is testing new plant-based fried chicken.

An animated piggy banks stars in Walmart’s Christmas campaign, a new president at Rock-it, plus Roots’ “Nice Together” campaign for the holidays, and new hires at Mosaic and Camp Jefferson.

Sandra Oh is back in a new ad for Air Canada; KFC is introducing bamboo buckets and Leo Burnett hires Kinga Karadi as SVP of operations.

Royal Canadian Legion calls for an online gaming ceasefire on Remembrance Day; Bayer Canada expands its relationship with McCann Worldgroup Canada; FCB wins GoodLife and lg2 adds Nicholas Paget as ECD in Montreal.

Nissan’s sticky idea for a safer Halloween, Christine Saunders is promoted to president at Starcom and a thinker of stunt for Toronto’s MOCA.