Russia Television Referring to Edward Snowden as former ‘Spy’.
An interesting choice of words in the photos caption on the RT story today:
Category: Politics
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Startup Community Comes to Defence of NSA Whistleblower
One of the biggest engines of innovation in the world right now is Y Combinator. The Bay Area accelerator has generated billions of dollars in value and runs a news[...]
US Gov’t : It’s OK to Spy on Canadians
As a Canadian I totally agree with Henry Blodget. One thing that is interesting–and, to many people, offensive–about the way the U.S. government is defending the PRISM program, however, is[...]
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Total Surveillance : We Asked For This
A great piece in Techcrunch on recent NSA news. In short, we didn’t trade privacy for security. We traded privacy for convenience. And the government, seeing a hole, took advantage[...]
The Rob Ford Gold Keeps Coming
“Any other questions?” It was what Toronto Mayor Rob Ford asked reporters at City Hall after he finished a prepared speech touting the city’s $248-million budget surplus, along with his[...]
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Turkish government just blocked entire social media access due to riots
Gezi Park the action Dehşet Lecturer Medals Photos – onedio.com.
Rob Ford’s Linkedin Page
This clearly needs some updates. I pity the poor bastards who are labeled ‘Similar to Rob’.
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Thinking Beyond The Beaver
I’m speaking at the CRED Forum today on the potential of technology to grow the Canadian economy. My talk is based on a piece I wrote for The Star[...]
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Thinking Beyond the Beaver. The Future of Vancouver’s Economy
I’ll be giving a talk on the innovation economy at CREDible Conversations Forum on May 29th. Join us! Tickets here.
Your Tax Dollars at Work
Good to see the Harper government is putting resources into celebrating the War of 1812, possibly the most pointless conflict in history.
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Canadas Radical Prime Minister Harper: Interview with Allan Gregg | DeSmog Canada
Great piece from Desmog Blog: Pollster, political advisor and pundit provocateur Allan Gregg believes Canadians have yet to grasp just how radical Harper and his Conservatives really are. In a[...]
Vancouver’s vacancies point to investors, not residents – The Globe and Mail
The only people who don’t believe that Vancouver has become a city of investors and not local, working residents are the willfully blind For the most part the local[...]
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Total Bullshit
Thousands of dead American soldiers. Hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis. And Iraq is a mess. These are the facts 10 years and 1 trillion dollars later. What a[...]
Startup City : Vancouver’s Competition
Vancouver cannot afford to become complacent if we hope to survive and prosper as a digital city.
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BC Pot Industry Vulnerable to Silicon Valley Disruption Too
As far as I can tell, the two pillars of Vancouver commerce are real estate and pot. But now disruptive forces are at work in the US to transform the[...]
Vancouver Park Board Wants to Transfer Money from West Side Community Centres to the East
You can call it whatever you want but the truth is that the centralization of community center revenue is simply a transfer of money from West to East. Under the[...]
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What Does it Take to be One of Canada’s 1%?
So what does it take to be counted as part of Canada’s 1%? Well if you earned just over $200k you’re in the club. On average, the top 1% of[...]
Canadian Film Asks Tough Questions about Our Vision of the Future
Learn more about the film here .
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Forget Wearable Computers. How about Clothing as Privacy?
This is awesome: “Countersurveillance clothing” is the new brain child of New York based artist Adam Harvey The idea is that the material blocks heat signatures, caught with infrared sensors,[...]
Vancouver Beats NYC as Most Expensive City in North America
According to ECA International, Vancouver is North America’s most expensive location for the second year in a row. The city ranks 35th globally and is followed by Manhattan – Yes,[...]
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China’s Super-Rich and the Vancouver economy
According to Business Insider: According to the 2011 Private Wealth Report, 27% of Chinese entrepreneurs worth more than 100 million RMB $15.9 million have already emigrated, while another 47% say[...]
Vancouver Takes # 5 spot in 2012 Quality of Living survey
Vancouver is getting some kudos these days. Recently it was deemed one of the top startup cities in the world and it has once again claimed one of the top[...]
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Drone’s Eye View: A Look at How Artists are Revealing the Killing Fields
“the drone also, for me, stands in part for the network itself: an invisible, inherently connected technology allowing sight and action at a distance. Us and the digital, acting together,[...]
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Thinking Beyond The Beaver
Startups and the Search for Canada’s Untapped Mother lode Canada has been a resource-based economy ever since settlers first started shipping beaver pelts to Europe. Since the time of the[...]
Why is Mark Brand Sleeping on the Streets?
Mark Brand is amazing. Apart from being the man behind Save On Meats, he’s on of the city’s great citizens. So why is he out in the streets? Find out here.
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Who would the world’s top economists vote for?
BI writes: …the world’s top economists have become increasingly vocal about who they think would be right or wrong for the economy. At an event last night, Joseph Stiglitz said[...]
