by Paul Kearley I can’t even begin to count how many times throughout my life I was told to be more like someone else. As a rambunctious child, it was: “Why can’t you be more like your brother?” In school:
Read MoreNot everyone would have done the same thing Early on the evening of June 1st, at approximately 5:30 to 6 PM, I witnessed something that was real-world heroic. I was driving out Division Street heading down the hill passed Harvey’s
Read MoreSecurity guards at Banco do Brasil carried machine guns I met Bobby and Jessy down the Amazon from Belem. First thing Bobby said was, “The Devil lives in Belem.” Jessy said, “Never trust a Brazilian.” I disagreed. I’d met some
Read More“It was time to buy my army jeep and get on the road to Cambodia” Bangkok was a city flooded with soldiers on their Rest and Rehabilitation (R&R) in Thailand. Vietnam was at its peak, just 600 miles away. I
Read MoreJohn Tory’s expensive kiss-off good-bye The fact that Canada’s FIFA World Cup spending will total $82 million per game taxpayer subsidies is a travesty. The deal negotiated in the sunset of John Tory’s mayoralty career reminds me of the 1976
Read MoreBy Ian Connerty More ballots were counted than there were voters. Voters were getting phone calls while they were voting. And many took pictures of their ballot to record how they voted, which is widely accepted as a sure sign of
Read MorePoliticians, not technology, enabled Uber “New technologies are enabling companies to sidestep the historical regulatory framework,” reads Gowlings’ final argument submitted to Justice Smith on March 28.News flash: it was not “new technologies” that allowed Uber to “sidestep the historical
Read MoreThe revolutionaries were all young men my age, early 20s I was probably one of the first non-Arab, non-Muslim to get into Libya after the Gaddafi coup d’état. My ticket in was that I wanted to see what a revolution
Read MoreCanada doesn’t have a serious data governance system by Vass Bednar Let’s talk about digital sovereignty. Sometimes when you listen to Canadian policymakers talk, you’d think that the physical location of a data centre matters more than what’s happening with
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