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For more than 21 years, Linda Nagel has helped strengthen and transform advertising self-regulation in Canada. It’s not the kind of work that usually wins awards, but every Canadian marketer and advertiser has benefited from her efforts. For Nagel’s distinctive impact on the practice of marketing communications in Canada, the outgoing President of Advertising Standards […]

Paul Lavoie, Co-founder, Chairman and CCO of creative agency Taxi, has won countless awards for his creative work, and now the 2015 ACA Gold Medal Award. Those who know him say that despite all his milestones, there’s no dampening his desire for new challenges. “Lifetime achievements, they suggest some sort of finality,” says Jane Hope, […]

Creator. Designer. Entrepreneur. Flag-waver. Mentor. Pioneer. These words just begin to describe Paul Lavoie. Perhaps that’s fitting for a man who has been doing business to the mantra “Doubt the conventional” throughout his more than 30-year advertising career. For Lavoie’s many achievements, not least of which includes building Taxi – the agency he co-founded in 1992 […]