A lot has been made in the past week about an essay written by former CTV broadcast reporter Kai Nagata in which he explains why he quit his job. Initially, I didnt read the entire 3,000-plus-word manuscript so by the time I got to the end I still had no idea why this 24-year-old, self-proclaimed…

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An economic "soft patch?" Someone forgot to tell the corporate sector. Despite slowing growth in gross domestic product as well as other sluggish economic indicators, the picture for corporate profits remains rosy as companies prepare to report their results for the second quarter of the year. Alcoa…

This past Friday, I went to Westfield Mall in San Francisco to conduct user tests on how people browse the web, and especially how (or if) they use tabs. This was part of a larger investigation some Mozillians are doing to learn about users’ tab behavior. The mall is a fantastic place to find user…

After seven years of taking taxis in Beijing I finally crossed the Rubicon of bourgeois colonialism and hired a car and driver. I now have two full time domestic employees, which seems somehow wrong. In the back of my mind lurks the ghost of the former graduate student adding up the cost of…

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Art Museum Theft Ring Member Sentenced After Two Decades of Crimes Luke David | January 22, 2026 Joseph Atsus, a 51-year-old Pennsylvania resident, received a four-year federal prison sentence on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, in Scranton for participating in a long-running museum theft operation.…

In 1999, Marissa Mayer, then a recent Stanford University graduate, joined a little-known startup with fewer than 20 employees that she calculated as having a two percent chance of success: Google. Now, as a senior executive with the search giant, Mayer is one of the most powerful women in Silicon…

Romanian computer-science stars Mircea Pasoi and Cristian Strat turned down jobs at Facebook and Google to build a technology startup in Vancouver. They’re the kind of talented migrants that most countries fall over themselves trying to attract. Their big idea, an algorithm that summarizes the most…

Vancouver Lacks a Public Square This week, I have recapped Spacing’s visit to Vancouver as part of their cross-Canada road show to promote their first national magazine issues and announce the launch of Spacing Vancouver. During the discussion that occurred at the launch, a lively discussion…

Mark Bittman on food and all things related. Iowa’s ag-gag law failed to pass before summer recess last week: a good thing. The ridiculous proposition, which died along with similar ones in Minnesota, Florida and New York, would have made it illegal to videotape or photograph in the agricultural…

Craig Ruttle/AP Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, takes a few select potential employees on a hike. You might think a long quiet walk through the woods with Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is a treat only his closest friends and dearest family get to enjoy. Yet a chummy stroll with one…

April 21, 2011 | by | Features In British Columbia, there are now over 20,500 real estate agents – that’s one for every 226 people. Since 2001, the median house price in Vancouver has increased nearly 200%; the median family income, 30%. And in 2010, the price of a detached family home in Vancouver…

I t’s an overcast spring day in the middle of Basque Country, Spain, and a thirty-year-old British Columbian named Ryder Hesjedal is near the head of a convoy. Behind him: forty European station wagons, three ambulances, two helicopters, eight cop cars, twelve sedans, nine motorcycles, and 125…

I thoroughly enjoyed Mobile 2.0; you can see the slides from "Why the Web Won't Do", the talk I did on the second day, here . To summarise what I said: We treat web sites and apps differently and adopt different mental models when discussing them (geographic and toolish, respectively); It's not like…

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