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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.
👀 Peep this: what if we legislated a consumer’s right to pay with cash?
Here are the legislative examples from jurisdictions in the US:
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.
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.@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:
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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.
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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
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💬 And I’m delivering a short keynote on Thursday in Ottawa at the FWD50 conference.
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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…
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