Labatt Breweries of Canada took Best of Show at the 9th annual Sponsorship Marketing Awards (SMAs), winning for a fan-based sponsorship program involving Budweiser and the Winnipeg Jets that exceeded business objectives. The SMAs, presented April 25th at the Sponsorship Marketing Council of Canada’s annual conference in Toronto, recognize companies that maximize their investments in sponsorship marketing by developing innovative strategies that drive results. Other big winners were BMO and Scotiabank, which each won two awards. Click here for the media release.

The Association of Canadian Advertisers is demanding that proposed changes to the Top-Level Domain (TLD) program be scrapped, warning it would permit applicants to claim virtually any word — generic or branded — as domain suffixes (.coke, .pepsi, .beer, .toys, etc.), supplementing the 22 generic TLDs (.com, .edu, .net, .gov, .org, etc.) now in use. Click here to learn more.