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A CBC blog has a short but observant post about Canada’s digital backwardness. More interesting are the comments. One commenter writes: If Canada wants to draw creative, educated professionals, it’s going to have to foster a progressive environment which is attractive to digitally-able, post-materialist, 21st-century citizens. Wow. Not sure I could agree more with this. Hopefully [...]
Its dangerous to draw conclusions from history that is too fresh, but I’m going to anyway. Canada is a country with an essentially pre-industrial economy. What I mean by that is our economy is based almost entirely or natural resource extraction. Sure our extraction methods are more advanced today, but in essence ours is still a pre-industrial [...]
One of my favorite and former professors at CMU is Richard Florida, who has spent many years studying the relationships between creative work and economic productivity. Recently he moved from George Mason University in D.C. to the University of Toronto in… well… Toronto. Apparently Canada offers the kinds of intellectual freedoms and diversity that support [...]
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