Odvodians broke bread, drank wine, played a round of musical chairs and then stood-up at the Here’s Nina event. Why? Because we support the ability of those with disability to create art. Congratulations to the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts (The Nina — pronounced nine-ah) for another amazing evening. Now in it’s second year, Here’s Nina! is a night that celebrates and supports all of the incredible talent that flows out of this inspiring organization. ...

Congratulations to Bon Ton Bakery’s new renovation and complete makeover. After a lot of hard work and many long hours spent dreaming of how to improve on something that’s already obsessively good, they’ve exceeded all expectation! Everything from the logo to the storefront, and every square inch of retail space has been renovated and redesigned. Even the parking lot got a facelift. ...

The semicolon is one of the most misused and misunderstood pieces of punctuation in the English language. This confusion is one of the reasons why it’s slowly being phased out of the grammar toolbox. If not for the 😉 emoji, the semicolon might disappear altogether. Unlike a comma (or a period), it links statements together that are closely related but are not part of the same subject in a sentence. ...

Technically it’s the year of the goat/sheep/ram, depending on how you Google it. More specifically it’s the year of the WOOD goat/sheep/ram, and that is why it’s also the Year of the Odvodian. An Odvodian is like a fine piece of wood. We’re solid, strong and depend on our environment to help our ideas grow. We are also a forest of knowledge in print and online media, and that knowledge is engrained in making our clients successful — the scratching post for all those infernal Internet cat videos. ...

Another year has come and gone, and we’d like to thank all of the clients who have worked with Odvod Media this year. It’s been an incredible 12 months of changes at Odvod — which has included expanding our team to take on new clients and projects — and we expect to see even more changes in 2015 (like a brand new Odvod Media website, for one). ...