Science, technology, politics and dance
Here’s a new scam. You will get an email from “Canada Post” asking you to download a “notice card” to collect a package that “Canada Post” has been trying to deliver. Do not click on that link. It’s a zip file containing a .vbs malware scrip. The script itself is encoded, with the decoding logic […]
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Dear Mayor and Council, Today, you will be voting on a new set of proposed bylaws, which, if passed, would make Airbnb and other short term rentals legal in Vancouver. The move to legalize short term rentals in the city have been spearheaded by Kaye Krishna, General manager of Development, Buildings, and Licensing. Ms. Krishna […]
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To: Mayor Gregor Robertson Connie Pavone, Executive Assistant to the Mayor’s Chief of Staff Jessie Adcock, CTO Kaye Krishna, General manager of Development, Buildings, and Licensing Dear Sir and Mesdames, I learnt yesterday that the City of Vancouver has abruptly decided to stop accepting property use bylaw infraction complaints sent to @CityofVancouver Twitter account. A […]
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My name is Rohana Rezel, here as an individual, and I’m speaking against this motion. Airbnb’s Alex Dagg told you that “The vast majority of our hosts are everyday people and families sharing the extra space at their homes a few nights each month to earn modest supplemental income” But out of curiosity, I went […]
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Dear UK, Theresa May today promised to rip human rights into shreds in the name of fighting terrorism – the very terrorism for which she’s at least partially responsible through her gutting of the police service, support of the illegal invasion of Iraq leading to the creation of ISIS, and her continued support of and […]
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So there we have it, we are heading into an election or, as Theresa May calls it, a dangerous and unnecessary exercise. Because as we all know, United Kingdom is one of the world’s greatest democracies and the greatest threat to that democracy is that we get to vote. But vote we will. So that […]
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Update: Elections BC has revised the results for Coquitlam-Burke Mountain citing a “transposition error”. The projects have been updated to reflect this change. Here’s my attempt to project absentee vote projections for the cliffhanger ridings from last night. Data BC Election final results 2013 BC Election preliminary results 2017 Method First, I calculated the absentee vote […]
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This morning I received a phone call and an email from Telus apologizing for their little unreturned equipment scam. Hey Rohana, As per phone conversation today, I am sending a confirmation email to advise that the equipment charges have been credited back and the account balance is now cleared. Sorry for any inconvenience that this […]
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After Telus threatened and harassed my wife and me over a bogus claim that we had not returned all the equipment we rented from them, we did some digging and found out that scores of other customers have fallen victim to the same tactic by Telus. We will be reporting Telus to the The Canadian […]
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Telus is threatening to take my wife and me to collections for equipment we never rented from them, even after we repeatedly sent them receipts to show that we purchased the equipment outright. The harassment has been going on since July of last year. We finally sent them a demand letter below: ———- TELUS Corporation 510 […]
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