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Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs
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Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Independent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto’s failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront scheme

"Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can … 200 View
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Take-Over and Issuer Bids

Take-Over and Issuer Bids

From: Securities Law 3/e

Take-Over Bids – Issuer Bids – Business Combinations (or Going-Private Transactions). 77 $7.70 Add
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Technological Protection Measures and Rights Management Information

Technological Protection Measures and Rights Management Information

From: Digital Copyright Law

Discussion of control and management of copyrights through technological protection measures (digital locks) and rights management information (identification of author, owner or terms of use). 22 $2.20 Add
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The Exempt Market (Private Placements and Other Exempt Distributions)

The Exempt Market (Private Placements and Other Exempt Distributions)

From: Securities Law 3/e

Detailed Review of Selected Prospectus Exemption – Other Exemptions – An Overarching Principle: The Relative Costs and Benefits of Issuing a Prospectus – Discretionary … 63 $6.30 Add
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The Origins of Securities Regulation

The Origins of Securities Regulation

From: Securities Law 3/e

Great Britain and the South Sea Bubble – Nineteenth-Century British Developments – The Blue Sky Acts – The US Securities Act of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934 – … 20 $2.00 Add
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The Prospectus Process

The Prospectus Process

From: Securities Law 3/e

Primary and Secondary Offerings – The Underwriters Role – Basic Stages of a Public Offering – What Can Be Done Before the Preliminary Prospectus Is Filed? – The … 60 $6.00 Add
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The Selling of Toronto’s Smart City
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The Selling of Toronto’s Smart City

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Chapter 1 explores the stakeholders who initially pitched the partnership between the city of Toronto and Google’s urban planning division Sidewalk Labs. 16 $1.60 Add
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Them’s the Brakes
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Them’s the Brakes

Out “Smarting” Traffic Safety Efforts in Edmonton

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Chapter 11 explores the ways in which the public resists the implementation of smart city technologies 15 $1.50 Add
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User Rights

User Rights

From: Digital Copyright Law

Discussion of an interpretive shift from an emphasis on protecting the rights of copyright holders to include protection of rights of purchasers and users of content. 30 $3.00 Add
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Was Sidewalk Toronto a PR Experiment or a Development Proposal
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Was Sidewalk Toronto a PR Experiment or a Development Proposal

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Chapter 6 asks the question of whether Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs project was a realistic urban development program or a PR stunt by Google to market their products on a large stage. 8 $0.80 Add