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Canada’s new marijuana laws must attend to business: Don Pittis – Business – CBC News
The Canadian government has a difficult task ahead, building a framework of marijuana rules that will satisfy many different interests. Health and safety considerations will be at the forefront for many, but Don Pittis looks at the one-time chance for getting the business rules right.
Source: Canada’s new marijuana laws must attend to business: Don Pittis – Business – CBC News
Canadian economy returns to quarterly growth amid signs of weakness – Business – CBC News
Canada’s economy resumed growing in the third quarter, Statistics Canada reports, but signs of weakness raised doubts about the strength of the rebound.
Source: Canadian economy returns to quarterly growth amid signs of weakness – Business – CBC News
Once you hit 60, it’s time to take ‘carpe diem’ seriously | Financial Post
We may be living longer than we used to, but we aren’t living healthier. Once you hit 60 your disability-free life expectancy shrinks, so you might want to front-load your retirement with fun
Source: Once you hit 60, it’s time to take ‘carpe diem’ seriously | Financial Post
Peter Foster: The man who shaped the climate agenda in Paris, Maurice Strong, leaves a complicated legacy | National Post
Strong, who died at the age of 86, has been called the man who ‘invented the environment. Peter Foster says he was also a man of myriad contradictions who loved power
Amazon Cloud Goes Down Again, Breaks Foursquare and Others
Photo: Flickr/Mike Miley
The cloud is cool. But it’s not always there.
That’s what some Amazon customers learned today after another outage on Amazon’s cloud computing platform knocked off several popular websites offline.
Foursquare said the failure kept it and other services from working for “about 2 hours,” according to an e-mail from spokeswoman Erin Gleason.
Music-sharing website Turntable.fm reported that it was down and “dealing with some Amazon Web Service issues,” at around 1:30 p.m. Pacific on Monday. A half-hour later, the site was operational.
Amazon Cloud Goes Down Again, Breaks Foursquare and Others | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com.
Richard Stursberg’s controversial tenure at CBC
Dragon Done by Trevor Cole
Nov 1, 2010
Source: The Walrus
He was “a bad man,” I was told. Those exact words. And “a nasty piece of work.” That was one person’s opinion, of course, so I asked others. “Arrogant,” I heard. Actually, I heard that one a lot. “Dismissive.” Someone took pains to express it more fully: “You know he couldn’t give a rat’s ass about you.”
Understand, these were his employees talking, the folks whose cheques he signed. Said one of them, perhaps unnecessarily, “There are a lot of unhappy people.”
There were others, outsiders, who echoed that discontent. Some of them are famous. R. H. Thomson, for instance, that nice actor who exemplifies Canadianness in Canadian television, feared the man wasn’t deeply interested in the very thing he was supposed to be protecting. “He doesn’t have the instincts for it,” said Thomson.
You wouldn’t have cared about Richard Stursberg if he’d been in charge of a sheet metal factory. If he’d been known to be mean to people who make muffins. But he was the vice-president of English Services at cbc. He was the guiding force of, as he described it himself, “the largest and most influential cultural organization in the country.” He was the pilot of the last flying fortress of Canadianism. And plenty of alert and reasonable people were pretty sure he was steering it straight toward the edge of a cliff.
When Stursberg arrived in August 2004 as vice-president of English television (he annexed radio in January 2007), many people who concerned themselves with that sort of thing were dismayed. Ian Morrison, spokesperson for Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, an organization that concerns itself with nothing but, seemed to fear the End Times had come. “There is absolutely nothing positive I could say about his appointment,” said Morrison, adding that the outlook for the corporation was “bleak.”
Six years later, those who feared wholesale change at cbc in the wake of Stursberg’s appointment could clasp their chins and gravely nod, unable to celebrate even as his departure was announced in early August. His legacy at cbc is not likely to be undone soon: Every one of the network’s programming directors has been replaced. Its prime-time TV line-up has been overhauled, as has everything about its news specialty channel, including the name. To cries of outrage, the comfortable rug of classical music has been ripped from under Radio 2. More than 1,000 people in cbc’s news division have seen their jobs changed or redefined. Anything else? Oh yes, the entire philosophical foundation of cbc English-language TV programming has been rearranged.
“I knew Richard was going to be a bull in a china shop,” says former cbc president Robert Rabinovitch, the man who hired him. “That’s one of the reasons I brought him in.”
Had any bull ever appeared less threatening? Just four weeks before Stursberg’s exit, suited in a grey that matched his thinning hair and wearing old-fashioned tortoiseshell-and wire-rimmed spectacles, the sixty-year-old then vice-president walked slow and straight-backed through the atrium of the cbc building. Hands crossed lightly behind him, a small smile on his face, he carried himself with the repose of a plantation owner. In his office on the seventh floor, it pleased him to discuss the Miles Davis book on his coffee table, the John Lee Hooker photo behind his desk, and the artists whose work hung on his walls (a group of five Canadians, including Douglas Coupland, all from the same class at Emily Carr University in Vancouver). I knew Stursberg loved art, because I’d been told his home was “dripping” with paintings. “There’s no one more cultured than he is,” said a former colleague. And this was important to note, because what he did to cbc is seen to be the opposite of culture. He is seen to have followed the agenda of a philistine.
“By and large, people don’t like change,” said the man himself, lightly, in his way. “Many people who have not altogether agreed directionally with where we’re going have been upset. That’s okay.”
Directionally, Stursberg made cbc Television a network concerned principally with ratings. To an audience of cbc folk, he once put it this way: he wanted the corporation to be Tim Hortons, not Starbucks. From this simple pledge flowed all of the change, and much of the ire.
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Buffett on the Spot
What were you thinking, Warren? At his shareholders’ meeting, the oracle will have to answer for his biggest management bungle.
Illustration by Thomas Fuchs
America has a way of elevating its heroes beyond the realm of mere mortals. This has not been an issue on Wall Street, where heroes do not exist. Warren Buffett has been the glaring exception. An Omahan who was not of Wall Street so much as above it and who spoke in cracker-barrel English derived more from Twain than from J. P. Morgan, he fulfilled (I once wrote) America’s secular myth. He was the man from the Plains whose virtue offered an antidote to the corrupt Northeast and to Wall Street in particular. It is a measure of his reputation that a radio interviewer asked me whether Buffett had, until late, behaved in a “near perfect” manner. No flesh and blood, examined up close, can meet such a standard. As the saying goes, “No man is a hero to his valet.” The David Sokol affair, in which an executive of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was caught in a serious ethical trespass, and in which Buffett failed to deliver a rebuke, has shown us a bit of the great man’s undergarments. The question for the 40,000 shareholders converging on Omaha for Saturday’s annual meeting (a.k.a. Buffett’s “capitalist Woodstock”) is whether the Sokol business tells us anything new, and perhaps dispiriting, about Buffett.
When I was writing a biography on Buffett, in the early ’90s, the trait that most distinguished him was his searing independence. Buffett was a brilliant, socially responsible investor, who engaged with the world only on his terms. He refused to be co-opted or recruited, whether with regard to stocks, philanthropy, or politics. His aloofness often caused associates to suffer disappointment. He zealously protected his time and his money; even his children suffered from the billionaire’s reserve. In a not atypical incident, he could barely lower his newspaper to listen to his teenage daughter’s tearful rendition of how she crashed his car. Friends described how Warren had rebuffed their requests for even small donations, and to causes with which the liberal billionaire sympathized. More fundamentally, associates yearned for a closer emotional connection.
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Amendments Make It Easier to Apply for Liquor Licence
Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations – Press Release – April 26, 2011 2:17 PM
The province is making it easier for businesses in Nova Scotia to apply for a liquor licence.
Proposed amendments to the Liquor Control Act introduced today, April 26, will streamline the application process to apply for, or renew, a liquor licence. "Many restaurants and bars must contact a number of departments and comply with a number of acts and regulations," said Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations Minister John MacDonell. "This takes time and costs businesses money. We’ve been asked to make this process quicker and easier, and we have listened."
The amendments will save government an estimated $225,000 per year and also save industry money, while not compromising enforcement. The change will transfer responsibility for granting permanent liquor licences from the Utility and Review Board to the Alcohol and Gaming Division of Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations. The change will make the Alcohol and Gaming Division the first level of appeal for issues about licensing and enforcement.
The amendments will also set up a public feedback system where objections to granting a licence can be heard. Public meetings will only be held if community members have objections. Currently, there must be an expensive, time-consuming public hearing for all licence application, even when unopposed.
The Liquor Control Act regulates liquor sales and consumption in Nova Scotia and the Liquor Licensing Regulations set rules for how licensed establishments can operate.
FOR BROADCAST USE: The province is making it easier for businesses in Nova Scotia to apply for a liquor license while maintaining protection for Nova Scotians. Proposed amendments to the Liquor Control Act introduced today (April 26th), will reduce the time and cost for businesses and government. The amendments will save government about $225,000 a year.
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Media Contact: Penny McCormick
Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations
902-424-6336
Cell: 902-499-8135
E-mail: mccormpl@gov.ns.ca
Proposed amendments to the Liquor Control Act introduced today, April 26, will streamline the application process to apply for, or renew, a liquor licence. "Many restaurants and bars must contact a number of departments and comply with a number of acts and regulations," said Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations Minister John MacDonell. "This takes time and costs businesses money. We’ve been asked to make this process quicker and easier, and we have listened."
The amendments will save government an estimated $225,000 per year and also save industry money, while not compromising enforcement. The change will transfer responsibility for granting permanent liquor licences from the Utility and Review Board to the Alcohol and Gaming Division of Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations. The change will make the Alcohol and Gaming Division the first level of appeal for issues about licensing and enforcement.
The amendments will also set up a public feedback system where objections to granting a licence can be heard. Public meetings will only be held if community members have objections. Currently, there must be an expensive, time-consuming public hearing for all licence application, even when unopposed.
The Liquor Control Act regulates liquor sales and consumption in Nova Scotia and the Liquor Licensing Regulations set rules for how licensed establishments can operate.
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Media Contact: Penny McCormick
Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations
902-424-6336
Cell: 902-499-8135
E-mail: mccormpl@gov.ns.ca
One Year Later: What Marketers Have Learned About Facebook’s Open Graph
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“Social platforms would now focus on the Web, not social networks themselves.” That’s how Mark Zuckerberg described Facebook’s vision when he announced the Open Graph in April 2010. Speaking at the f8 Developer Conference, Zuckerberg described an enhanced Facebook API and supporting tools that would give marketers new ways to make sense of a user’s preferences, passions and connections, which he characterized at as the “objects” of their lives.
Zuckerberg recognized that a user might live in San Francisco, work at Wells Fargo, listen to R.E.M., play tennis, eat at Chipotle and be friends with a number of people — but that Facebook by itself can’t map out these and other “objects.” Pandora, for example, knows a lot more about a user’s musical taste. But working together with these companies using Facebook’s Open Graph, a personalized Web with users each at the center of their own online experience could be created.
Now, one year later, the Open Graph is showing some effective traction in the marketing world. Here is a look at how it is working for (and with) marketers on its first anniversary.
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