About Lee Rickwood
Lee Rickwood covers developments in media and technology with particular interest in how such developments affect our social, political and economic activities and interactions.
by Lee Rickwood
As important as Canadian women entrepreneurs are important to the country’s economic success, women still face unique and systemic barriers to starting and growing a business, and they remain underrepresented in the economy – pandemic or not.
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The fact that “human rights for all” needs to be put in place as a goal of the marketplace, and is not already its core operating criteria, is a condemnation of not just the marketplace, but of its regulators and participants.
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Canada is one of several countries around the world looking at new ways – new laws – to address online speech. Canadians should speak up on the matter.
by Lee Rickwood
The dangers that e-waste recycling poses to the health of future generations generates a call to action to reduce children’s exposure to harmful e-waste activities.
by Lee Rickwood
The latest washroom technology is said to bring a new kind of clean, but it also brings new implications for privacy in the privy. The can is now connected to the cloud.
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Organizers of a new competitive chess league say they will make use of technology to drive innovative scoring technologies, new board selection methods and a fantasy league.
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Much like a cardiogram uses heart rate data to deliver insights to predict and prevent heart disease, brain biomarkers with similar diagnostic and treatment potential can be collected and analyzed using new Canadian technology.
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“What the North lacks in IT, we make up in potential waiting to be discovered,” said Rob Penner, project leader on a new high tech installation at the University College of the North, where Penner is Associate Vice‐President of Community and Industry Solutions.