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Word of the Day: Jacobin

Word of the Day: Jacobin

In the summer and autumn of 1789, the French National Assembly overturned a thousand years of law and custom to produce a modern constitutional democracy. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen spelled out all the new conditions of civil life: the abolition...

Missed opportunities in telecom and UBB

Although the telcos are major ISPs, Yahoo and Google dominate the search engine market.  Bell's Sympatico wasn't a bad try at a portal for a telco ISP but it never really captured the market or led to big successes in other applications areas.  How could North...

Vancouver housing strategy misses the mark

A new housing and homelessness strategy came before Vancouver City Council July 26th. Its stated goal is no less than to eradicate homelessness by 2015. Aside from the impossibility of the goal, lumping general housing affordability and homelessness together into one...