VANCOUVER: Best Buy Canada went on the offensive to counter an e-mail that had gone viral that suggested the electronics retailer was going out of business.

OTTAWA: The Canadian Automobile Dealers Association (CADA) urged the government to aid the auto industry, at a press conference on Friday, November 21 at Parliament Hill.

TORONTO: Sears Canada has launched a holiday promotion called "Budget Relief Price Drop", in which the retailer will lower prices for a limited time on a selection of merchandise leading up to and possibly beyond the holidays.

TORONTO: Research and polling firm Léger Marketing has hired Alan Chumley to the newly-created position of director of communications research.

TORONTO: Scotiabank says it will trim its PR budget next year, as it aims to do "more with less" because of the economy

Niall Cook, the worldwide director of marketing technology at Hill & Knowlton, discusses the impact, now and in the near future, of social software on internal and external communications.

VANCOUVER: The Ethical Funds Company, Canada's leading manager of sustainable investments, has hired Vancouver PR firm Hoggan & Associates as its AOR.

TORONTO: Stephanie Lu is the new head of media and public relations for RBC, the country's largest financial institution.

TORONTO: It's not often that a company publicly analyzes its own media coverage, particularly when the news is bad. But that's exactly what Nortel did, a day after it announced a big quarter loss and job cuts totalling 1,300 staff.

OTTAWA: During the Canadian federal election, opposing parties went to considerable lengths to tie Prime Minister Stephen Harper to US President George W. Bush, one of the most least-liked presidents among Canadians in recent memory.