Singer-songwriter. Idealist. Global citizen. Email me at sam@samnabi.com.
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Transportation has a huge role in shaping the way cities function and grow. Everyone wants to to be close to a subway station, so naturally cities coalesce into dense clusters around those station areas. Nobody wants to live on a highway onramp, so highway …
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Photo by Taber Andrew Bain. Today, the inadequacies of postwar traffic engineering were unceremoniously laid bare as a power failure in downtown Hamilton forced thousands of people out of their office towers and onto the few arterial roads that traverse the lower city. For …
Read more →There’s a fair bit of knee-jerk criticism making the rounds about this INDEVOURS event next week. So I thought I’d share my opinion on the matter. Next Friday, the University of Waterloo’s International Development program will be hosting an event featuring Roy Sesana, an …
Read more →On Friday, the first installment of my new biweekly column was published in Imprint. Broadly, I’m going to write about politics on a local, national, and global level – and how political issues impact students. Or, more to the point, why we should care …
Read more →I’m in the University of Waterloo’s co-op program, which means my schooling is interspersed with chunks of work experience to let me get some practical knowledge of the field. It’s a great system on the whole, but talk to any co-op student at UW …
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Photo by biologycorner. I’m suffering from post-election politics burnout, so I’m just going to riff on an idea here and see where it leads. It seems every government, from City Hall to Parliament Hill, is trying to “position ourselves in the knowledge economy”. There …
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It’s raining. Melissa and I are biking down highway 6 from Tobermory, letting the fat drops of water hit our faces as we cycle towards Singing Sands Provincial Park. We know the forecast called for scattered showers today, but we’d been cooped inside for …
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