When I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver, we conducted regular drills to rehearse for what we believed was the inevitability of a nuclear assault at the hands of an evil Communist empire half a world away. This was the height of the cold war, and as...
Om has a piece today written by Venture Capitalist Allan Leinwand asking whether Canada should bail out Nortel. He asks: “But is preserving the country’s technological heritage reason enough to spend millions in taxpayers dollars?” I think that...
This just in: Vancouver has been ranked fourth on the world’s list of least affordable cities. This is well ahead of cities like Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, and Hong Kong. As most rational people know, the city’s thundering real estate...
There’s a hole you could drive a truck through in U.S. economic development and immigration policy, which represents a substantial competitive advantage for Canada in furthering its own economic development and the growth of its knowledge-based industries. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2514771.stm Wednesday, 27 November, 2002, 09:45 GMT Hi-tech workplace no better than factories Staff in technology jobs work in the white collar equivalent of a 19th century factory. suffering from isolation, job insecurity and...
