Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship | Fulbright Fellow

Vancouver and Ottawa
Joined February 2014
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“This government misrepresented the evidence to close a service that saves lives and improves community safety.” cpha.ca/ontario-misrepresent…
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MISINFORMATION ALERT: CBC Regrettably, CBC has been regurgitating Air Canada's press release. This is inaccurate. 1) Under the APPR, AC must rebook passengers on competitor airlines if it cannot rebook them on their own. 2) The Carriage by Air Act provides more protection.
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Replying to @COPEVancouver
@seanorr well done shifting the conversation to a class analysis and humanizing the people of the downtown eastside. too often we're focused on the "impact on business" and property values instead of the intense human cost of poverty
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NEW: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is worth almost $10 billion, and his co-founder Martin Lorentzon has a net worth of $15 billion. Artists report making, on average, only $0.003 to $0.005 per stream on the platform. Streaming has reshaped the music industry—at the expense of artists.
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BREAKING: New London School of Economics study found in 18 countries between 1965-2015 that slashed wealth taxes: NO TRICKLE DOWN happened to the middle class. The RICH simply GOT RICHER #TaxtheRich
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Three ways organizations can support advocacy. mitsmr.com/441kRcd
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Big congrats to the workers at five Starbucks stores in Ontario who just ratified their first union contracts! This is a great milestone! Solidarity with @SteelworkersCA and every worker organizing for better. cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/s…
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Enhance Your Academic Profile Stand out. Get noticed. Build your legacy. buff.ly/F7aRE37
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BREAKING: Warren Buffett moments ago at the 2025 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting just came out against Trump's Tariffs in a major way: "There is no question that trade can be an act of war. It has led to bad things — the attitudes that it has brought out. In the United States, we should be looking to trade with the rest of the world. And we should do what we do best and they should do what they do best. That’s what we did originally. We were good at producing tobacco and cotton 250 years ago and we traded it. We want a prosperous world but eight countries with nuclear weapons, including a few that I would call quite unstable, I do not think it’s a great idea where a few countries say ‘hahaha we won,” and other countries are envious."
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Danielle Smith has one card to play: picking fights for the sake of fighting. If she doesn’t make an enemy out of the federal government, she’s left with no one to blame but herself. Albertans are proud to be Canadians. We know better than to play games when our nation’s sovereignty is threatened.
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Online meetings continue to exhaust us. Neuroscience research reveals that they are particularly tiring. Here are four science-backed strategies to combat meeting fatigue. mitsmr.com/4iH5bAM
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Claude Shannon on how to approach a problem: Change the words. Change the viewpoint. Look at it from every possible angle.
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We combed through the records and found that Poilievre has voted against workers over 500 times. One throwaway line about workers doesn’t undo that record. It’s not a slip-up, it’s a strategy. Poilievre’s platform shows he’s determined to leave workers behind. #Elxn45
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In 2012, at the World Economic Forum Stephen Harper cut our healthcare funding and raise the retirement age to 67 years, cutting off pensions to seniors. The Liberal Party reversed the damage of Poilievre and Harper. Let's not go there again. Vote #CarneyForPM #WEF
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Now is a good time - as Canadians en mass are seeing the hateful tactics of far-right outlets like Rebel News and True North - to remind everyone that these are the *same* outlets leading the residential school denialism movement, platforming hate and monetizing misinformation.
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Thank you, Neil, for your support.  Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World.  tinyurl.com/yzmj52yj
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🚨What Canadian exporters need to know about CUSMA compliance🚨 Despite tariffs under IEEPA, most Canadian goods can still enter the U.S. duty-free under #CUSMA. Get the latest guidance: ow.ly/j6XH50VzjQA #USMCA

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Check out this listing in North Vancouver realtor.ca/l/bRwp1/ja
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The Atlantic
@TheAtlantic12 Apr 2025
“If there is an underlying philosophy driving Trump, it is this: Morality is for suckers. The strong do what they want and the weak suffer what they must,” @nytdavidbrooks writes. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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