Eleven Canadian organizations win Employee Recommended Workplace Awards

On March 20, Morneau Shepell and The Globe and Mail announced the category winners of the second annual Employee Recommended Workplace Award at The Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto. These were the organizations with the top Total Health scores in their business categories, representing privately owned, public, not-for-profit, and  government sectors in the small, mid-sized and large business categories. They will be profiled nationally in The Globe and Mail on Tuesday, March 27.  Read more...

The Globe and Mail leads National Newspaper Award nominations

In-depth coverage of the killing of Muslim worshippers at a Quebec City mosque, reporting on questionable sexual-assault policing in Canada, an examination of torture and corruption in Asia and an essay on asylum seekers crossing into Manitoba were recognized within The Globe and Mail’s pack-leading 18 nominations for the National Newspaper Awards. Read more...

With Lab 351, The Globe and Mail is creating both new products and a culture of “bottom-up” innovation

"A driving principle for the incubator is to make it so “ideas can bubble up from the bottom, or the middle, or the top” of the organization." Read the Nieman Lab story by Richardo Bilton here.

Canadian political ads on Facebook – what are you seeing?

With three provincial elections looming in 2018 (Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick), political parties are gearing up their Facebook ad campaigns. But what are Canadians seeing on their feeds?

The Globe and Mail wants to find out. Because Facebook can specifically target ads that can only be seen by a defined group of people (such as university educated women with children who work in finance), it’s almost impossible to tell who is being promised what. Read more...