The Mogo Blog

Black Friday is coming, Cyber Monday is close behind

For those of you out there that don’t know, Black Friday is the Friday that follows American Thanksgiving. It’s also the biggest retail shopping day of the year. To compete for your bucks, retailers offer up mega sales to get you in the door. Online shops have followed suit and Cyber Monday has been gaining tremendous steam over the past few years. As we get closer to the big shopping days (yep – Canada’s starting to see some spillover on Black Friday sales) it’s time to start looking at where

CONTEST: What do you love about the Grey Cup?

It’s that time of the year – GREY CUP TIME!!! The BC Lions are taking on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Vancouver’s newly redone BC Place., and it should be a great game! There are definitely a few great reasons to love the Grey Cup: 1. the sport 2. the players 3. delicious snack food Let us know who you think will win and what you love about the Grey Cup and you can **win a $25 Superstore gift card **- just in time to stock up on snacks for the game! ————————– TO ENTER: 1. Leave a commen

Top 10 most expensive commercials on TV – Sunday Night Football vs. American Idol

When you’re not fast-forwarding through them on your DVR, getting up to go to the bathroom, or taking a second to talk to your kids , commercials are there to take up space in your brain. And while we might not pay as much attention to commercials as we used to, they’re still big money for TV networks. Not surprisingly, the biggest bills associated with a standard 30-second time slot during prime time comes with highly rated, result-based shows. That means Sunday Night Football (sports for me)

Most expensive province for housing? BC leads, Alberta close behind

According to Stats Canada, BC leads the pack in terms of average annual housing costs. Whether you’re buying, renting, squatting or man-serving there’s a yearly cost associated with your living. Here’s the breakdown on a province-to-province basis, as of the 2009 study [http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-621-m/2010086/part-partie1-eng.htm]. 1. British Columbia – $16,336 2. Alberta – $16,153 3. Ontario – $15,560 4. Saskatchewan – $12,440 5. Manitoba – $12,203 6. Nova Scotia – $11,524

What does PROTECT-IP mean for the Internet at large? Watch the video

If you read blogs, use social media, or are generally plugged in, you’ve probably heard of two bills that are gaining a lot of steam in the US — PROTECT-IP and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) aim to help large scale companies battle online piracy and copyright infringement (generally, a good thing) but are poised to open the door to international IP blocks, site penalties and massive limitations on what user can post, view and interact with online (terrible, terrible). The video below outline