Invest In Kids Foundation PSA 1999

From their website:

Invest in Kids was founded in 1993 by a group of people committed to creating the best possible futures for all Canadian children.

They had become gravely concerned about the growing numbers of children requiring interventions and services of agencies like Children’s Aid.

They wondered about prevention. Were there opportunities to explore?

The work of Invest in Kids began.

Initially, the focus was centered on creating awareness for the critical first 5 years of a child’s development. The most recent brain research supporting the fact that a child’s future was largely mapped by the time they were 5, needed to be communicated widely so strategies could be put into place to better support all those who had a role in influencing the lives of our youngest children.

INVEST IN KIDS TODAY

Our initial focus has blossomed into a comprehensive effort to reach all parents and professionals who work with families and young children with what they need to do their job better. Because right now, the research is clear – they currently do not have the knowledge, skills and confidence to do their jobs well – and the social, emotional and intellectual development of our youngest children has been compromised as a result.

In fact, today, nearly 1 in 3 Canadian children under the age of 6 have a social, emotional or learning problem. That is a frightening statistic. Many of these problems can be related to a lack of positive parenting.

Today, we are at the center of a national campaign, both creating awareness for this alarming trend in our country and raising the funds to support the solution.

As a national, charitable organization with a mission to help parents become the parents they want and need to be, we have offices across the country: our head office is located in Toronto, Ontario, with provincial offices in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Edmonton, Alberta and Kelowna., B.C.

OUR MISSION

Invest in Kids is dedicated to helping parents become the parents they want and need to be. By translating the science of parenting and child development into engaging, easy-to-understand, relevant resources for parents and professionals, Invest in Kids aims to strengthen the parenting knowledge, skills and confidence of all those who touch the lives of our youngest children to ensure the healthy social, emotional and intellectual development of children from birth to age five.

Men With Brooms Commercial 2002

Men with Brooms is a 2002 Canadian romantic comedy film, starring and directed by Paul Gross. Centered on the sport of curling, the offbeat comedy tells the story of a reunited curling team from a small Canadian town as they work through their respective life issues and struggle to win the championship for the sake of their late coach.

The cast also includes Connor Price, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Outerbridge, Kari Matchett, Molly Parker and Polly Shannon. Members of the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip make a cameo appearance in the film as a competing rink representing Kingston, Ontario, the band's home city. Winnipeg curler and three-time Brier champion Jeff Stoughton also made a cameo appearance throwing his trademark "spin-o-rama" shot.

A television adaptation, also titled Men with Brooms debuted October 4, 2010 on CBC Television for the 2010-11 television season.

Ontario Education PSA 2000

PSA from the Ministry of Education for the province of Ontario in 2000 

Vogue Optical Early 2000's

From their Website:

Vogue Optical began with one store on the corner of Brackley Point Road and Belvedere Avenue in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in 1979.

Originally called Gray’s Optical, our initial vision was to offer a unique combination of quality eyewear, professional service and unbeatable value. From that modest beginning, Vogue Optical, with our unbeatable 2nd Pair Free Policy*, has expanded to 70+ locations across Canada.

We attribute our success to an excellent staff, loyal customers and great product and prices. We believe in our product and service and offer simple, hassle-free policies. After more than 40 years in the business, we continue to provide our customers with terrific value and service.

The New RO (CHRO) Local News 2002

First few minutes of the nightly news cast for The New RO in 2002

CJOH News Promo 2003

New Promo for CJOH sometime in 2003 

Oral B Commercial 2002

Oral-B is an American brand of oral hygiene products, including toothpaste, toothbrushes, electric toothbrushes, and mouthwashes. The brand has been in business since the invention of the Hutson toothbrush in 1950. 

Dr. Robert W. Hutson (1920–2001), a Californian periodontist, designed and patented a toothbrush in 1950. The application for a design patent for his "Hutson toothbrush" was filed on January 13, 1950, and U.S. Design Patent No. 160,604 was granted on October 24 the same year. In 1958, he was granted a utility patent for a "mouthbrush" having fine, soft, flat-ended nylon bristles, and a similar appearance to the 1950 design. He claimed in his application that this brush was less abrasive to tooth enamel, better for massaging the gums, and more effective at picking up tooth powder than other brushes available at the time, which had coarse, angle-cut bristles.

He also created the Oral-B brand name. The first product was known as the "Oral-B 60", because it had 60 tufts. Other sizes were made with differing numbers of tufts and corresponding names. Hutson sold his toothbrush business in the 1960s, and continued his San Jose periodontal practice.

Oral-B became part of the Gillette group in 1984. Braun, also part of the Gillette group at that time, started to use the Oral-B brand for electric toothbrushes. Oral-B has been part of the Procter & Gamble company since 2006. A company representative has stated that the "B" in Oral-B stands for "brush".

Pantene Commercial 2007

Pantene is a brand of hair care products owned by Procter & Gamble. The product line was first introduced in Europe in 1945 by Hoffmann-La Roche, which branded the name based on panthenol as a shampoo ingredient. It was purchased by Procter & Gamble in 1985 in order to compete in the "beauty product" market rather than only functional products.

The brand's best-known product became the 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioning formula, Pantene Pro-V (Pantene Pro-Vitamin). The product became most noted due to an advertising campaign in 1989 in which fashion models said, "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful." Kelly Le Brock and Iman gained notoriety as the first television spokeswomen to speak the line. The line was criticized by feminists and became a pop-culture catchphrase for "annoying" narcissistic behavior.

Duracell Commercial 2005

Duracell Inc. is an American manufacturer of alkaline batteries, specialty cells, rechargeables and smart power systems, owned by Berkshire Hathaway. The company has its origins in the 1920s, through the work of Samuel Ruben and Philip Mallory, and the formation of the P. R. Mallory Company.

Through a number of corporate mergers and acquisitions, Duracell came to be owned by the consumer products conglomerate Procter & Gamble (P&G). In November 2014, P&G reached an agreement to sell the company to Berkshire Hathaway through a transfer of shares. Under the deal, Berkshire Hathaway exchanged the shares it held in P&G for ownership of the Duracell business.

Duracell originated via the partnership of scientist Samuel Ruben and businessman Philip Rogers Mallory, who met during the 1920s. The P. R. Mallory Company of Burlington, Massachusetts, United States, relocated its headquarters to Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1924. The company produced mercury batteries for military equipment, trumping the carbon-zinc batteries used then in virtually all applications. In 1956, P. R. Mallory & Co. acquired General Dry Batteries, Inc. (GDB) with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. GDB was then the third-largest U. S. manufacturer of zinc-carbon batteries and had made mercury batteries under license from P. R. Mallory during World War II and after the war until its acquisition in 1956.[5] During the 1950s, Kodak introduced cameras with a flash. The design required a new zinc-carbon cell size, and size AAA was developed.

In 1964, the term "Duracell" was introduced as a brand, from "durable cell". Until 1980, the batteries also bore the Mallory brand.

Late Movie - BBS 1996

The Baton Broadcast System, also known as BBS, was a Canadian system of television stations located in Ontario and Saskatchewan, owned by Baton Broadcasting. BBS was the successor to two provincial systems also owned by Baton, the Saskatchewan Television Network (STN) and Ontario Network Television (ONT).

During the 1990s, BBS and its predecessors served as a complementary programming service to the CTV Television Network, to which most (but not all) of the system's stations were already affiliated. Shortly after Baton's acquisition of CTV in 1997 and the contemporaneous sale of Baton's independent stations (later re-acquired by Bell and currently part of the parallel CTV 2 system), the BBS brand was eliminated, and the system's operations were merged into the CTV network.

CHEZ FM Commercial 2000

CHEZ was launched at 6 p.m. on March 25, 1977 by CHEZ-FM Inc., a company owned and operated by Harvey Glatt. Glatt owned Treble Clef music stores, a chain of retail record stores, and was also a major local concert promoter.

The initial signal strength was 100,000 watts, and the first song was "Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder. The original morning show host was Mike O'Reilly, better known at the time as frontman in the rock group Bolt Upright and the Erections. Other early DJs included Geoff Winter, Steve Colwill, Sheryl Nicholson, Brian Murphy, Pierre Bourque, Paul Hunks, and Kathy Donovan. Ken Rockburn provided news and Randy Burgess did sports.

The station focused on the 18-34-year-old demographic by playing English progressive rock music. CHEZ also ran children's programming, talk programming and even some French programming when it first launched on air. Shows like CHEZ Ottawa, The Source, Jazz 106, Medium Rare and In the City distinguished the station from others in the Ottawa market.[2]

During the first few years on air, CHEZ competed with AM station CFRA, then a pop-leaning music station. In 1987, just a few weeks before celebrating its tenth anniversary on the air, CHEZ attained the number one position in the Ottawa market for the first time, with nearly 300,000 weekly listeners.

CHEZ had two sister stations, CHEQ and CJET, under the umbrella of Rideau Broadcasting, located in Smiths Falls.

In 1994, CHEZ shifted to classic rock, partly due competing station CJSB moving its active rock format to FM.

The station and its holdings (Rideau Broadcasting), Canada's last major independent radio station, was sold to Rogers Radio in 1999, joining CKBY and CIWW as Rogers-owned stations in the Ottawa market.

In 2011, CHEZ changed their slogan to "World Class Rock", and began adding more current rock music to its playlist, shifting towards a mainstream rock format. In March 2014, the station added more currents, and their slogan was changed again to "Ottawa's Rock Station" reflecting their competitor CKQB switching from active rock to a Top 40/CHR format.

On June 6, 2016, CHEZ was rebranded to 106.1 CHEZ with a new logo and the station's new website was launched reflecting the change.

In June 2019, CHEZ announced a new morning show, The Biggs and Barr Show, which formerly aired on CHTZ in St. Catharines.

In May 2020, the station reverted to its old branding of CHEZ 106, but kept the same logo and format.