Joshua Conkel @JoshuaConkel

I want to live in a small town but it also has to have a bookstore, a fancy coffee shop, at least three good restaurants, and an indie movie theater all within walking distance.

4:49 PM ∙ Oct 30, 2022

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Dagmar, Archerfishionado @DJWeduwen

What if we all just migrate over to the same google doc

12:21 PM ∙ Oct 31, 2022

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👀 Peep this: what if we legislated a consumer’s right to pay with cash?

National Post @nationalpost

Vass Bednar: Let cash be king again — Why businesses should be forced to accept paper money

financialpost.comVass Bednar: Let cash be king again — Why businesses should be forced to accept paper moneyThe general elimination of cash as a payment option creates problems for small businesses and consumers alike, writes Vass Bednar. Read more

1:45 PM ∙ Nov 1, 2022

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Here are the legislative examples from jurisdictions in the US:

• New York City - A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting food stores and retail establishments from refusing to accept payment in cash

• Philadelphia - Regulation 8 - Cash payments in retail establishments

• San Francisco - Acceptance of cash by brick-and-mortar businesses

• New Jersey - An Act concerning payments by consumers

• Massachusetts - Discrimination against cash buyers

• Maryland - Cash transactions preservation act

• Federal - Payment Choice Act

• BTW, even Amazon Go brick-and-mortar stores accept cash now to avoid “discrimination and elitism.”

👻 Last week, I was a bit of a party pooper on that last minute Rogers-Shaw announcement.

Kevin Carmichael @CarmichaelKevin

.@VassB takes to @financialpost to deflate any excitement that might be building about #cdnpoli's industry minister dressing up like a champion of #cdnecon competition for Halloween:

financialpost.comVass Bednar: Why Champagne’s intervention in the Rogers-Shaw merger rings hollowChampagne’s move could be interpreted as bullying the Competition Commissioner into doing what Ottawa wants, writes Vass Bednar. Read on.

6:38 PM ∙ Oct 27, 2022

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🌆 I also got to talk about regulatory lag and smart cities on TVO’s The Agenda with John Lorinc & Josh O’Kane.

Meredith Martin @meredithmartin

What is a Smart City? What happened to Toronto's Sidewalk Labs project? Why did politicians fall in love with the notion of a Smart City? Answers to these questions and more #onpoli #topoli Why Pursuing Urban Utopias Isn't Smart | The Agenda youtu.be/KMnFnuSWBAM via @YouTube

youtu.beWhy Pursuing Urban Utopias Isn’t Smart | The AgendaIn 2017, the City of Toronto embarked on a project with a subsidiary of Google called Sidewalk Labs. The idea was to develop a parcel of Toronto’s industrial...

1:59 PM ∙ Oct 31, 2022

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💬 And I’m delivering a short keynote on Thursday in Ottawa at the FWD50 conference.

FWD50 @fwd50conf

Can society adapt at an Internet pace? @VassB—Exec Director of McMaster's MPP in Digital Society, and author of Regs to Riches—joins us this fall to talk about the intersection of policy and tech. next.fwd50.com/speaker/34/vas…

4:11 PM ∙ Sep 2, 2022

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