This fall, legislatures in both Canada and the U.S. are set to vote on bills that would force private Internet service providers (ISPs) to store information about their customers, in order to allow the government to spy on its citizens. With an increasing amount of our everyday activity being…

Last summer, Sacha Goldberger decided he would take on a very interesting project. He assembled a team who helped him create an outdoor studio at Bois de Boulogne, a park located near Paris that's 2 1/2 times the size of New York's Central Park. He stopped joggers, asking them for a favor – would…

Welcome to the New Philistinism! It’s got everything: an indifference or hostility to any arts, culture or community endeavour that might require government funding (except if it’s an NFL team), a tendency to engage in mean, dismissive public discourse, pitched battles that become operatic (Ford vs.…

by David Roth and David Raposa David Roth: I’ve been on vacation in a place without TV and alarmingly rich in Phillies fans. But I wanted to clear something up with you in re: Yadier Molina’s Crazy Eyes Killer routine with that ump. David Raposa: Thank you for reminding me to witness that bit of TV…

It’s undeniably fun to write each week about what’s happening in cities around the world, chronicling trends like bikesharing, cool new public spaces and crowdsourcing. But it’s not all glamour. A lot of what makes a great place to live is actually quite prosaic: sidewalks and sewer pipes, fire and…

The Toronto Blue Jays called up third baseman Brett Lawrie from Triple-A Las Vegas on Thursday. ( DAVID COOPER / TORONTO STAR ) | By Baseball Columnist Thu., Aug. 4, 2011 ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. The long-anticipated promotion to the majors of Brett Lawrie as baseball’s next great Canadian player is at…

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Published 20 May 2011 Share page About sharing Image caption, A sketch of a typical cell in the Miami jail Imagine a jail where dangerous inmates awaiting trial live 24 to a room and fight each other under a violent gladiatorial code. This is life inside Miami's mega-jail, writes Louis Theroux. For…

Comments: In his letter, published in your Aug. 2 edition, Sherrold Haddad perfectly voices an opinion TransLink has heard frequently on the issue of how to fund transit improvements; "motorists should not be asked to pay for something they don't use." It's a reasonable argument, but there's another…

For Fraser Institute president and CEO Brett Skinner, the truth is out there, just waiting to be quantified. The Fraser Institute’s Burrard Street address leads me to a car dealership with no external signage. Inside there’s no reception desk – just a cluster of car salesmen sipping coffee and…

The CRTC released its annual Communications Monitoring Report last week and, as usual, the document shows Canada to have a very healthy - and wealthy - telecom and broadcast industry. Revenues and subscribers are up pretty much across the board and everyone is happy. Right? Of course not. Among the…

TL;DR version: Like everyone, I want to express myself, and I want to control information that describes me. That traditionally involves people, but now organizations have data about me too. Controlling that isn’t easy, but I’m stubborn, so I try anyway. If you know me, you already know I’m weird…

United States | Norwegian v American justice Americans have no standing to criticise Norway's short sentences and comfortable, humane prisons |5 min read By W.W. | IOWA CITY COMMENTING on a shared link to a Time slideshow offering a tour of Norway's Halden prison, the "world's most human prison",…

After nine years, we did what some people would deem inappropriate. Others might even call it unthinkable. We sold our suburban house, got rid of 90 per cent of our stuff and moved back to the city. It's not like we were empty-nesters downsizing once the kids had left. No, we still had the kids in…

Wherever he goes, including Manhattan, Jack McKeon, the manager of the Florida Marlins, makes sure to attend Mass the morning of every game. “When I go to the ballpark, I have no worries,” he said. “God’s looking after me.”Credit...Mustafah Abdulaziz for The New York Times Jack McKeon’s baseball…

Jeremy Dean, Wealth of Nations, 2011. Courtesy the artist and {CTS} creativethriftshop, NY. When I tell people what we are doing, they want to hear about the room where you produce. I tell them that there is a lot of paperwork. That they take your picture and look at your license. Then they walk you…

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When a friend of mine proposed a two month trip to Europe, I figured it would be the perfect distraction from my disturbing ambivalence towards post-grad life. In Europe, when you’re unemployed and go

Like a beautiful but gangly teenager on the first day of high school, in Vancouver we tend towards constant introspection and self-awareness to the point of mental self-abuse when we discuss our city. "Are we are as pretty as Zurich? Are we more fun than Sydney? Do these pants make me look fat?" We…

Kinjoe, a new Vancouver-based social network, connects you with other people in your neighbourhood Vancouver may boast the title of most livable city in the world , but according to a poll released last year from Angus Reid, it also ranks as the loneliest city in Canada. Emir Aboulhosn, founder and…

We know to be mindful of people's personal space and to face the elevator door not because these rules are written down somewhere, but because they are supposed to be matters of common sense. All of this makes perfect sense and is, well, quite obvious when you stop to think about it.Unfortunately,…

Our always-on society is, in fact, becoming a Golden Age for introverts, in which it has become easier to carve out time for oneself If my research -- conducted primarily via Netflix -- is correct, America used to be a paradise for introverts. If you weren't a lone cowboy riding the range in a…

A girl (or boy) travels to Europe to find herself. We know what happens next. In Motion: The Experience of Travel by Tony Hiss. 352 pages. Knopf. $27.95. On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe by Andrzej Stasiuk. 272 pages. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $23. This is a storyline woven…

Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps. We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android. We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to…

Computer science has always been a male-dominated field, right? Wrong. In 1987, 42% of the software developers in America were women. And 34% of the systems analysts in America were women. Women had started to flock to computer science in the mid-1960s , during the early days of computing, when men…

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A Reporter at Large What happened that night in Abbottabad. August 1, 2011 No American was yet inside the residential part of the compound. The operatives had barely been on target for a minute, and the mission was already veering off course.Photoillustration by John Ritter Shortly after eleven…

This past April in Switzerland, Lawrence Lessig gave an impassioned lecture denouncing publishers’ paywalls, which charge fees to read scholarly research, thus blocking most people from access. It was a familiar theme for Mr. Lessig, a professor at Harvard Law School who is one of the world’s most…