Tranquility Cove Adventure

If you’re not leveraging the unique local experiences of the destination you’ve chosen to host your event, you’re letting your guests down.  Tranquillity Cove Adventures Perry Gotell in Georgetown, PEI, offers a…

Planners “Spudded In” Hosted By Meetings & Conventions PEI

ONLY IN PEI… Last month a select group of planners found themselves “Spudded In” as honorary Islanders with a freshly shucked oyster and a potato-filled shot of moonshine when Meetings & Conventions PEI played…

Authentic Italian at Quadros

A supplier took my dad and me out for dinner in Toronto’s Little Italy not long after we moved to Mississauga in the late 80s from Sherwood Park, Alberta. The experience was…

Site Canada Celebrates Summer

Who’s that out and about (in my best 50s game show voice)? Why that’s none other than our own Vicki Zeppa attending the SITE Canada summer social at the beautiful Island Yacht Club. There’s nothing…

Exhibition Place Debuts Wi-Fi 6 at Beanfield Centre

A few years back, we had to cancel an education event 15 minutes into a 4-hour curriculum because the WiFi was so bad none of the attendees could access the lesson. It…

Building Relationships at Ottawa Meet Week

Digital Event experiences will evolve and get better, but nothing can replace being there live and in person. That was proven again during Ottawa Meet Week, which took place in early spring…

Cities in Sync Spaces

I can’t promise a rainbow over the St John’s harbour to close your event but I can’t discount it either. The 1st five pictures are from The Rooms, a beautiful event &…

Hala Bissada’ Rocks the RBC Innovator’s Ball

This will be the last time we talk about a past winner for a bit because today we’ll be announcing the 2022 Canadian Event Award nominees. Then we are going to tell…

The PEI Experience

It’s the way the ocean air hit’s your lungs, the movement of the boat beneath your feet, the anticipation of a successful hunt, and the unique thrill of landing a giant bluefin…

Welcome to the Mall – Are you IN the Game?

If you can appreciate that V/R, A/R & the MetaVerse technologies represent an evolution of our current digital interactions, then it’s easier to understand the opportunity and hopefully a little less scary.…

Spectacular Space in Mississauga

If you don’t know about the Living Arts Centre, you should because it’s a spectacular modern event space located just 20 minutes from Pearson in the heart of Mississauga, across from one…

Unexpected Space in Mississauga

By Jason Koop. Here is a unique and multifunctional event space that will surprise you. Considered one of the City’s most significant heritage properties, the Small Arms Inspection Building is a one-of-a-kind…

Hosting in My Hometown Mississauga

By Jason Koop. If you’ve never considered Mississauga as a host destination, I understand. Toronto throws a big shadow. Yet in the real world of producing events, where logistics, location, parking, travel,…

Taking on the Virtual World

A temp job typing (cultural reference, google if you’re under 40) the media guide for the agency managing the Canada Cup hockey tournament in ’87 turned out to be the beginning of…

Food in The Forest

The wedding was in the making for over a year. The bride asked for a 100 – person long table dinner in the middle of the Cowichan Lake Wilderness Forest with harvest…