Digital policy, geopolitics, and pop culture. Public servant. @MaxBellSchool + @ubcVSE alum. @GlobalShapers. Founder @surreyync Advisory Fellowship. 🇵🇭🇨🇦
Thanks to @CopyrightOffice, McDonald’s franchisees now have the right to repair their own ice cream machines.
In March @FTC filed a comment in support of this change, and we’ll keep using our tools to protect people’s right to repair.
https://t.co/vzLV15dUEk
Great day to be outside reading @denisehearn_ and @VassB’s “The Big Fix”! Lucky enough to get my hands on an early copy 🫶🏽
Can’t wait for their Max Bell Lectures later this month :)
https://t.co/3J74SmCVEa
Our Policy Lab report on digitalization of government services is now out! 📱
In “Canada’s Digital Renaissance: OneGov and Beyond,” we identify key barriers to the federal government’s digital transformation and propose three actionable recommendations: https://t.co/boAAPO1OVK
📱 "Canada’s Digital Renaissance: OneGov and Beyond," written by Max Bell School of Public Policy students Arwa Emhemed, Gagan Gill, Leona B. Bu, Raihana Sayeeda Kamal, and Sean Celi for Interac Corp.
https://t.co/Nh7IndLx6B
And of course this is still not the end of the story: there are policemen everywhere in Paris, and the authorities have deployed security cameras on a massive scale and an experimental AI-based video-surveillance system that would make president Xí jealous. •14/19
We are delighted to announce that after an international search, our next director is Canada 150 Research Chair, Jennifer Welsh. The international affairs expert and former UN official has been at @mcgillu since 2019. @McGillARTS
Announcement: https://t.co/N9w0tXFPzF
You should be absolutely terrified by a society where leading publications start arguing that killing children is legal. If anything is a code red alarm, this is it.
Amazon billed its "Just Walk Out" stores as some triumph of AI. In reality, it was powered by thousands of low-paid Indian workers manually adding up items in your cart as you shopped.
How insanely dystopian. https://t.co/QAHOKFMshu
The Surrey Youth Newcomer Council (SYNC) is a community of Surrey youth who are passionate about making the City of Surrey a better place to live in for newcomer youth.
Interested in joining? Email [email protected] or visit https://t.co/GlqBsiqKsj
While millions of eyes are on the Super Bowl, Israel is bombing Rafah. The border between Gaza and Egypt was the last safe place for Palestinians, who now have nowhere to escape. Hard to imagine this timing is a coincidence... which do you think will lead the 11pm news?
So excited that @VassB and @denisehearn_ are the 2024 @mcgillu Max Bell lecturers and that this year’s topic is on competition!! Honoured to be playing a small part in this as their research assistant woohoo 🎉 🥳
📢 We are excited to announce @VassB & @denisehearn_ are the 2024 @mcgillu Max Bell lecturers!
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