The Therapeutic Clown Program has helped put a smile on my baby girls face (and continues to do so till today!) and I ask you to please vote for them on the Aviva Community Fund competition!

The Therapeutic Clown Program
http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf2928

I believe the The Therapeutic Clown Program is like sucrose (sugar water) that has shown to make the pain go away! Thank you for all your great work. A spoonful of sugar makes the ‘pain go away’

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About the competition

Aviva wants to support what’s important to you by helping you make a positive change in your community. If you’re interested in changing Canada for the better, you’re in the right place.

How the Competition Works

Create an idea that will have a positive impact in your community. Enter it in the Aviva Community Fund competition and get your friends, family and everyone you know to vote for it. The most popular ideas will have a chance to be funded with the $500,000 Aviva Community Fund.

Something we always knew but now there’s a study out that makes it all legit!

Canada landed dead last in terms of wireless penetration, a hot-button measurement in Canada that the government has cited as evidence that the domestic market needs more competition.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/canadas-cellphone-rates-among-highest/article1247843/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125001984953423527.html

Happily Single from Aviva Canada on Vimeo.

Amanda is a 27-year old single mother. An optimist at heart, Amanda questions how her divorce could have affected her car insurance rates.

For more videos, visit ChangeInsurance.ca/InYourShoes/

In Your Shoes

We have launched the very first insurance industry customer centric online video site and that to in record time! Check out the video’s on In Your Shoes and feel free to leave your comments. If you do enter the In Your Shoes contest and win please feel free to let them know you were refered to the site by Gavin Lobo – Brand Marketing.

Know Your Stuff™ is Insurance Bureau of Canada’s home inventory tool. Now creating and maintaining an accurate home inventory is easier than ever. The Know Your Stuff™ tool will help you to build a room–by–room record of your belongings and calculate replacement costs. Check it out.

So I was sent a link to the Wii sale on Bestbuy.ca yesterday (may 5^th, 2008) and decided to order a second Wii Wheel for MarioKart that my brother bought me (So that we can go head to head in some MarioKart racing – hell yeah!!!). I filled out the required information and then decided to look for local pick-up but unfortunately all the stores near me were sold out. So I move on to the shipping option – The first shipping option from BestBuy is “Ground” and costs me $1.99 CAD. But if I wanted a faster service I could always opt for the “Expedited” service @ $126.41 CAD!!!

I nearly fell off my chair reading that shipping cost. Ever wonder why online shopping has never caught on in Canada-eh? Because we have some of the most exaggerated shipping costs ever (I should also add in there the lack of big box stores and low population volumes) CPC just does not get it any more.

Mr. Lobo

Yesterday we took pictures with Flat Stanley and a few members of the eBay Canada team. I had never heard of Flat Stanley before nor did I know about the project or thousands of locations, people, places and countries Flat Stanley has been to. It was cool to be involved in one more of Flat Stanley’s many adventures/projects. Read more about Flat Stanley here.

http://www.flatstanley.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Stanley

My Folks, Nel & myself will be in Chi Town for 8 days for my best friends wedding. The plans already seem hectic and it should make for 8 days of very little sleep.

I haven’t gone on a road trip with my folks in a long time so this should be fun! I have my 4 Gig Nano with a FM transmitter that should help with music. Though the part that worries me the most is driving around the maze they call US roads… They have so many signs for everything your never sure if you are on the right road or getting on to the one that will take you back to Canada!

We will try our best to get to the Bongo Room for breakfast if we can but given our schedule that may be a problem…:)