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How Mike Harris got Ontarians off welfare and back to work

The reforms that the Harris government brought to Ontario’s social assistance system were transformative

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Scenes From the Knives-Out Feud Between Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer

The rivalry was the “talk of the town” at ABC, where the two TV icons spent years poaching each other’s best guests, chronicles Susan Page in an excerpt from her new book, ‘The Rulebreaker.’ At the same time, confesses Sawyer, “We spent a lot of time laughing and forging a real friendship.”

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How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."

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Book excerpt | What's the correlation between social media engagement by politicians & their vote share in elections?

Book excerpts from The Online Effect by Sanjeev Singh: Can social media help politicians get votes? Do politicians hold strategy meetings about which issues to post on? Do some issues get more engagement than others? Does engagement with posts go up during elections? And what does it all mean for assembly polls and general election results?

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2054, Part VI: Standoff at Arlington

“This eruption of violence had been brewing for years, through successive economic collapses, pandemics, and the utter dysfunction that had become American life.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.

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2054, Part V: From Tokyo With Love

“Had this all been contrived? Had his life become a game in which everyone knew the rules but him?” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.

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2054, Part IV: A Nation Divided

“The people are in the streets. We can’t ignore them any longer. Really, we have little choice. Either we heal together, or we tear ourselves apart.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.

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2054, Part III: The Singularity

“You’d have an incomprehensible level of computational, predictive, analytic, and psychic skill. You’d have the mind of God.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.

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2054, Part II: Next Big Thing

“If molecules really were the new microchips, the promise of remote gene editing was that the body could be manipulated to upgrade itself.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.

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2054, Part I: Death of a President

“They had, quite swiftly, begun an algorithmic scrub of any narrative of the president suffering a health emergency, burying those stories.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.

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