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Fear, uncertainty, and death

Monday morning, I hopped on my bike and rode to work. I like to take Moore Avenue via Duke Street and Waterloo Street -- running more or less parallel to King, but without all the traffic. Narrow, leafy streets and cute homes with front porches welcome me as the hazy dawn breaks into full daylight. …

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Bridging the web-native gap

The line between websites and apps is becoming blurrier every day. What with entire operating systems being made with HTML5, and the recent influx of native adblockers on mobile platforms, there's all kinds of cross-pollination that is absolutely good for the industry and good for the web in …

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Strategic voting won't help you

Strategic voting is a mirage. It's like gambling, or predicting the stock market -- there's a whole industry of people trying to figure out how to game the system, and most of them fail. Progressives have been hand-wringing for the last decade about how to unite the left (without actually, you …

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Solidarity is not a numbers game

Apparently, the University of Waterloo doesn't know what it means to be an ally -- but will gladly accept accolades and prestige for kind of thinking about it. Over the last few days, the UW administration has been trumpeting its partnership with HeForShe. It's a worthy cause and a necessary …

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