Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.
Kirk LaPointe, editor-in-chief, vice-president of Glacier Media
The future of a driving tax in our region is in the pages of the Mobility Pricing Commission's final report:
https://www.itstimemv.ca/uploads/1/0/6/9/106921821/mpic_full_report_-_final.pdf
Darryl Pinckney examines the phenomenon of Ta-Nehisi Coates - The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/07/ta-nehisi-coates-afro-pessimist-temptation/
The Atlantic summarizes the rise and fall of Lil Tay, the Vancouver-based child rapper - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/the-lil-tay-saga-reaches-its-logical-conclusion/561116/
Timothy Renshaw, managing editor:
From the stranger than fiction file: Arctic Today item on how re-introducing mammoths into northern landscapes could help reduce arctic carbon emissions - Arctic Today
https://www.arctictoday.com/resurrecting-mammoths-help-stop-arctic-emissions/
EIA report on the potholes in the road to electrified vehicle adoption: Electrified vehicles continue to see slow growth and less use than conventional vehicles - U.S. Energy Information Administration
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=36312&src=email#
Glen Korstrom, reporter:
This CBRE report discusses the expansion of retail around the globe – what sectors have the brands that are most expanding, and to what locations. Vancouver had the second-most, new international brands and they tended to be in the luxury segment. Getting this report requires registration but it is a free download here - CBRE
https://researchgateway.cbre.com/PublicationListing.aspx?PUBID=6235b51c-9f82-4212-a72e-88bee3d7cf86#
Albert Van Santvoort, reporter:
There is a lot of confusion surrounding how money is created and the differences between money the government creates and money the government borrows through issuing bonds. In this two-part World Bank blog post, the authors present an accounting perspective on the creation of money and help explain how private banks and governments create money. - World Bank blog
http://blogs.worldbank.org/allaboutfinance/accounting-view-money-money-equity-part-i
https://blogs.worldbank.org/allaboutfinance/accounting-view-money-money-equity-part-ii#one
Often the spending debate in Canada surrounds whether the federal government should be spending money rather than how it spends money. Working off of ideas highlighted in the World Bank Blog posts about taking an accounting view of money, this post from the Director of Health Policy at the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, Jennifer Zwicker discusses how we spend healthcare dollars should be considered. Zwicker highlights how social spending is needed to provide better healthcare outcomes, more efficiently.- HuffPost Canada
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jennifer-zwicker/social-services-improve-health_a_23434453/ .
Tyler Orton, reporter:
Starbucks previews anti-racial bias training curriculum - Seattle Times
UK military fears robots learning war from video games - BBC
www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44217246?ocid=socialflow_twitter
Under The Skin: Why That 'Arrested Development' Interview Is So Bad - NPR
Emma Crawford Hampel, online editor:
Are Quebec media slightly ahead of our time? While most outlets, English and French, are feeling pressure, French language news outlets face an added strain in that they are seen as being responsible for cultural preservation - Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-are-quebec-media-slightly-ahead-of-our-time/
Carrie Schmidt, editorial researcher:
The Holy Grail of Video Game History is Probably an Office Memo - Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/video-game-history-foundation-grail-preservation-ephemera
Anna Liczmanska, editorial researcher:
Summer reading list from Bill Gates – Fast Company
https://www.fastcompany.com/40574793/these-are-the-books-bill-gates-says-to-read-this-summer
Nelson Bennett, reporter:
Europe’s Freezing Winter May Exacerbate Global Warming - Bloomberg
Cooke Aquaculture in New Brunswick to use Norwegian 'thermoslicer' to treat fish with sea lice – Truro Daily News
http://www.trurodaily.com/business/cooke-aquaculture-gets-high-tech-sea-lice-treatment-206116
