Home ownership, the Canadian Dream—Barry Bradey lived it with gusto. Over the past decade, the health and finance entrepreneur owned three houses in the affluent Toronto suburb of Oakville, and watched each soar in value. But after a divorce and a business failure, he needed cash on hand. So last…

Last Fall, it was my first semester of teaching as a tenured professor. It was also the semester that I realized how pervasive cheating is in our courses. After spending a tremendous amount of time fighting and pursuing all the cheating cases, I decided that it makes no sense to fight it. The…

This’ll be a little bit of a long post. I’ll preface by saying that (if you know me you probably know this) I am entirely in favor of keeping the HST. In other words I will be voting no to “extinguishing” (is it just me or is that a really weird way to use the word “extinguishing”? oh well…) the…

You’re fucked. You’ve got nowhere else to go. Netflix killed Blockbuster. The music industry should be paying close attention to the Netflix brouhaha. Every analyst says the same thing, this is about killing the DVD rental business. Imagine if the music business killed the CD? But you can only do…

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I’m old enough to remember a time before the Internet. I know what it’s like to develop software both with and without a worldwide network. Little has changed with the process of software development since the 1980’s. Of course there have been improvements in our tools and techniques, but the basic…

David Raposa is off this week, but Yakkin’ About Baseball will return in its usual format next Friday. In the meantime, I’m offering an exclusive (if admittedly a bit self-promoting) look at a pet project of mine that’s snowballed into something of an obsession. For the past seven years, I’ve been…

When I was a kid I loved to watch The Flintstones and always laughed at Wilma and Betty’s shopping habits. Whenever they had the chance they were off to their Palaeolithic department store with their battle cry “Charge it!” Before you knew it they were home with boxes filled with saber-toothed tiger…

It is really, really, really hard to believe. But as bad as internet access is in Canada, it just got worse. Yesterday, Shaw Communications, a Canadian telecommunications company and internet service provider (ISP) that works mostly in Western Canada announced they are launching Movie Club, a new…

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There's now less reason for Toronto's bus riders to be jealous of their streetcar-riding comrades. Starting this week, real-time TTC bus arrival times are available online and by text message. Streetcars, with about 800 stops citywide, have had this service since 2010. Passengers at the city's 9,300…

Thirty-five miles from Portland is the home of one of Oregon’s hottest tech properties. It’s a long way from the “Silicon Forest” of local startups. It’s an even longer way from those who work in Silicon Valley, their offices bustling with Razor scooters and wunderkinds having mad, Red…

United States | The debt-ceiling debate Republicans lawmakers and their constituents may not be on the same page |2 min read By R.M. | WASHINGTON, DC THE newest Republican talking point regarding the debt-ceiling negotiations is that the party is willing to compromise. Eric Cantor has stated as…

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A few weeks ago, a woman asked me for advice about her teenage daughter. “She wants to be a writer,” the mother said. “What should we be doing?” To be honest, I was kind of stumped. (In part, I think it was the way she asked it – “What should WE be doing?” I didn’t really know what to do with that…

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Moises Sierra, a RF prospect in the Jays minor league system is my sleeper pick to click. Here’s a little more about the underrated (in my opinion) Dominican player. Credit: Callum Hughson Photo credit: Callum Hughson Moises Sierra was born September 24, 1988 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.…

The first video I saw by Laurel Nakadate was in P. S. 1 ’s “Greater New York” show in 2005. I was immediately struck by the scene in which she appeared weeping on a New York City rooftop, dressed in a Girl Scout uniform. Behind her, a column of smoke spilled forth from the burning Twin Towers. As…

Posted by: Yuri Artibise Profile Comments Follow Please login or register to follow this user. Why I Love Transit Like it? 306 Posted July 12, 2011 Keywords : phoenix , transit , transportation , vancouver , Transportation It’s I Love Transit Week in Vancouver! This week (July 11-17th) The Buzzer…

Opinion BALTIMORE I HAVE wonderful friends. In this last year, one took me to Istanbul. One gave me a box of hand-crafted chocolates. Fifteen of them held two rousing, pre-posthumous wakes for me. Several wrote large checks. Two sent me a boxed set of all the Bach sacred cantatas. And one, from…

Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It’s written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and generally don’t have a clue about the daily necessity of keeping your team professionally content because they’ve either never done the work or have forgotten…

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For Immediate Release: Subject: TransLink Board approves Space-Port proposal Vancouver – TransLink board members and the Mayors’ Council today approved the initial design phase and funding formula for the proposed Metro Vancouver Space Port (MVSP). “This is a bold step toward the future of…

When an open source software package with the name Pantyshot appeared on The Python Package Index (aka "The Cheese Shop") it started a controversy around names, censorship and gender in the open source software community. Things got complicated when it was revealed that one of its primary authors…

A new psychology study could become your go-to resource for citing why your boss and coworkers should quit it with the vague workplace jargon. (Bill O'Leary/WASHINGTON POST) Still, the professors’ unsurprising results could be a useful reminder to leaders that all the dreck that invades their…