Month: June 2018

CBSA reminds all travellers to ‘leave your firearms at home’

Stuart Mitchell

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has launched a firearms awareness campaign reminding United States (US) travellers to Canada about Canadian firearm laws. Canadian laws are different than US ones – the CBSA suggests you check its requirements and restrictions before arriving at a Canadian port of entry. We strongly recommend that you keep your firearm at home when travelling to Canada and/or transiting through Canada to reach another US destination. However, should you choose to travel with your firearms, you must declare all firearms in your possession at the…

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Co-op bins waste – not food – by taking products off sale to donate to community groups

Stuart Mitchell

The Co-op is to bin last minute sales to avoid food going to waste. A new first-of-its-kind national food redistribution scheme has been rolled out. It will donate fresh food as well as other products, such as bakery items, within use-by and best-before dates to thousands of small community groups to make healthy dishes. The Co-op plans to call time on food waste with its innovative food redistribution scheme, called Co-op Food Share, which will take products off sale earlier to get fresh food within its use-by date to charities…

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Cannes Lions Launches its First “Change for Good” Hackathon with Amazon and Huge

Stuart Mitchell

Cannes Lions has announced it will host a two-day “Change for Good” Hackathon, to be held live on 19-20 June at the 65th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Together with Amazon, Huge and international advocacy platform Global Citizen, Cannes Lions will invite teams from across the globe to join forces and imagine and build solutions that will further six Global Citizen campaigns, including: No Poverty, Food & Hunger, Health, Education, Gender Equality, and Clean Water & Sanitation.. Ascential Events CEO and Chairman-Elect of Cannes Lions Philip Thomas, commented, “Launching…

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CAP Launch Consultation on a new rule to tackle harmful gender stereotypes

Stuart Mitchell

The CAP has launched a public consultation on a new rule to tackle harmful gender stereotypes in ads, as well as on guidance to advertisers on how the new rule is likely to be interpreted in practice. The purpose of their announcement is to make public the proposed rule and guidance, which includes examples of gender portrayals which are likely to fall foul of the new rule. The consultation proposes the introduction of the following new rule to the ad codes which will cover broadcast and non-broadcast media: Advertisements must not…

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United Nations Foundation and Gap Inc. Join Forces for Pride Month to Support Global LGBTI Equality

Stuart Mitchell

Today, Gap Inc. and the United Nations Foundation announced that, for the third consecutive year, they will partner during Pride Month to raise awareness and funds for UN Free & Equal, a global campaign of the UN Human Rights Office to promote equal rights and fair treatment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people globally. This effort builds on Gap Inc.’s commitment to the UN Human Rights Office’s Standards of Conduct for Business on Tackling Discrimination against LGBTI People unveiled last year. The partnership will include a portion of…

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