June 2009
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From Vinay Gupta: Simple Critical Infrastructure Mapping - Understanding Vital Systems and How They Keep You Safe
Retail Infrastructure
Canada has four times more retail space per capita than any European country; second only to the US.
What are we going to do with it?
The CRTC and Conservative government have for the most part adopted a do-nothing approach. Allowing Bell Canada and others to continue throttling the Internet and limit competition leaves Canada behind in terms Internet speed, cost, and access. Allowing big telecoms to become Internet gatekeepers is bad for free speech, bad for consumer choice, and bad for the innovation economy.
While the...
“International development aid should more and more take the form of freely and...”
– Herman Daly, From a failed growth economy to a steady-state economy
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Vancouver Council approves car-free sundays in... →
“Council also approved a new program called Summer Spaces, which will close four neighbourhoods — Collingwood, Mount Pleasant, Gastown, and Commercial Drive — to vehicle traffic on several Sundays each summer.”
“It’s the commitment to the lightweight nature of the web, to real-time, to...”
– Tim O’Reilly on an open source, open protocol Google Wave. (via Tyler)