City-owned fibre: new revenue stream?
I was reading this article on Ars Technica about the town of Monticello, MN, who had tried to build its own 50Mbs fibre network after TDS (the local cable...
Thoughts on Bill C-300
I was just listening to the debate on CBC's The Current between John McKay, Liberal MP for Scarborough-Guildwood and Jon Baird, president of the...
BC's coming HST
I've been giving some thought about the upcoming HST, which will harmonize the 5% federal GST with our existing 7% PST into a single 12% tax. From what I...
Third Annual Think City Citizen Budget Survey
Every year, the City of Vancouver goes through a public consultation on the annual budget. This process has left much to be desired in terms of the actual...
Speaking of Media Image...
I, last week, was wondering aloud about Obama's media image, and then today, I see that Errol Morris was thinking about media image too: During the last...
Obama's media image
Having seen an awful lot of images of President Obama in the media these past few days - both video and still, I've noticed a striking contrast between...
Vancouver Civic Election Polling Station Lookup
I don't know if you've seen the City of Vancouver's Polling Station Lookup Tool. It's really, really terrible. And I figured that I could do something...
The Think City/Dream Vancouver debate
Last night, I attended the Think City / Dream Vancouver city councillors debate at the Alice McKay room in Library Square (Full disclosure: I am a Dream...
The Results are in...
... and I lost. Really, really, really lost. I came in last place in the voting. However, I was so thrilled by the whole experience, I can say with some...
Vote Today!
Today is the Vision Vancouver nomination meeting! Please come out and nominate me for Park Board! Location: Charles Tupper School - 419 E. 24th Ave (map)....