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Essays, analysis and reflections on how trust gets built, and broken, across technology, cities and people.
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01 · 14 essays & analyses
Technology & Power →
AI, identity, data and platforms. Who gets to know what, who decides, and who answers for it when it goes wrong.
02 · 15 essays & reports
Place & Systems →
Cities, institutions and global business. How rules, markets and public policy decide who belongs and who gets left out.
03 · 9 personal reflections
On Being Human →
Leadership, culture and identity. The experiences, from Parliament Hill to four study-abroad programs, that shaped how I see systems.
Start here · Latest essay · Oct 2026
Whose Agent Is This? The Identity Problem at the Centre of Agentic AI
The industry is building agent IDs, AI conformity standards and agentic payment tokens. The missing piece is binding an agent to an accountable party, and that is an identity verification problem.
Technology & Power
AI, data, platforms and surveillance: who gets to know what, and who decides.
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3–5 minutesCostco: Digitizing the Low-Cost Model
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5–8 minutesDigital Sovereignty & Data Dependency: What Canada Gets Wrong About Owning Its Digital Future
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3–5 minutesINGLOT: How a Polish Cosmetics Company Built a Global Advantage by Seeing Who Others Missed
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4–6 minutesSurveillance in Augmented Reality: Snapchat, Zuboff, and the Ethics of the AR Gaze
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5–7 minutesEmpathetic AI or Orwellian Oversight? Pinterest Meets Saunders’ ‘Jon’
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4–6 minutesThe Ethics of AI in Food Delivery: Personalization vs. Discrimination
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5–7 minutesThe Apple Logo: Symbolism, Temptation, and Ethical Implications in Modern Technology
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5–7 minutesWho Owns the Smart City? Reading Sidewalk Labs’ Master Plan
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3–4 minutesWho Gets Left Out of the Platform City?
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1–2 minutesFrom the platform economy to city as a platform: The Smart City
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2–3 minutesMobilization in Response to Big Tech and Short-term Rentals
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2–3 minutesEngaging with the Platform Economy: Short-term Rental Housing
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2–3 minutesFrom the Sharing Economy to the Platform Economy
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1–2 minutesWhen “Affordable” Isn’t: Toronto Housing in One Infographic
Place & Systems
Cities, land, institutions and the invisible rules that decide who belongs and who gets left out.
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11–17 minutesRikers Island: Mass Incarceration as an Urban Policy Failure
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3–4 minutesLand Dispossession and Alternative Realities in my Island Home
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1–2 minutesWhy Growth Lands Unevenly: Notes on Uneven Development
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10–16 minutesScarborough – A Report
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2–3 minutesLand dispossessions in Colombia: Historical trajectories into the present
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2–3 minutesSaving Nature
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2–3 minutesMaking Gender
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5–7 minutesCritical Reflection on The Boys & Girls Club of East Scarborough
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2–3 minutesHow Property Shaped Who Belongs: Land, Race and Colonial Space
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9–13 minutesWhat Toronto Can Learn From Tokyo
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3–4 minutesHow Should Cities Accommodate and Regulate Alternatives to Traditional Housing
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4–6 minutesMoorish Influence on Spanish Gastronomy
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5–7 minutesUNIDO & OPEC: Thinking Critically About More Than Just The Face Value
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6–9 minutesThe Bata Shoe Company: A Trail Blazer for Future Successful Businesses
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10–15 minutesMalvern and the Politics of Neglect
On Being Human
Identity, culture, leadership and the experiences that shaped how I see systems.
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4–6 minutesMy First Time in Asia: Belly Full, Heart Full, Soul-Full
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3–4 minutesOne of 338: Daughters of the Vote, Justin Trudeau, and Me
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3–5 minutesEveryone gets old.
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4–6 minutesChaplaincy is Crucial for the Successful Reintegration of Inmates
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4–6 minutesMusic & Me
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4–6 minutesMy Eat, Pray, Love Moment
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1–2 minutesPersist! Persist! Persist!
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2–3 minutesHow Life Experience Plays into a Career
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12–18 minutesLubna Through the Looking Glass
