Imagine creating a startup and then a war breaks out in your home country. Then you move to an underground …
Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet at Collision Conference; Corporate Empathy and the Secret Sauce to Mentoring Startups
I’m guided around a black curtain by a Techstars rep who tells me Maëlle Gavet is now free for her …
Various National Flags At Toronto Protest Shows Emotional Reach Of The War In Ukraine (Lithuania, Georgia, Belarus, Poland, Estonia, Taiwan, Netherlands, et al.)
On the way into the downtown core, a gentleman driving a black Mercedes had two flags rolled up on his …
Why Toronto (And Surrounding Regions) Might Be The Next Silicon Valley
Invest in Toronto, invest in Ottawa, invest in Waterloo, invest, invest, invest.
For Sidewalk Labs and its CEO Daniel Doctoroff, ‘It Takes A Village To Build A City’ (Collision Conference 2019)
The headline projected on the screen reads: ’It takes a village to build a city’; and so describes Daniel Doctoroff, …
ProteinQure, AI and the Future of Drug Design
Protein Origami CRISPR is all the rage these days in the Biosciences, for its ability to edit DNA and to …
One Man’s Complaint To The Toronto Ombudsman Regarding King Street Pilot Proposal Prompts Admission Of Data Misrepresentation From Transportation Services
A query from an Ombudsman Investigator reveals that the King Street Pilot proposal to council misled with a false comparison …
Anthropocene: The Perverse Beauty of Edward Burtynsky’s Photography
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO (AGO) Exhibit: Anthropocene (works by Burtynsky, Baichwal and de Pencier). Above piece: ‘Dandora Landfill 3 Plastics …
The King Street Pilot Lie (Part 2): The “Integrity” Behind The Numbers
As mentioned in a previous article, the City of Toronto launched its pilot on an erroneous 3:1 ratio of transit riders …