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Anthony Burton

As seen in: The Guardian, Frontiers, The Outline, NOW Toronto, Everand, London Reviews, Calhoun Times, The Varsity, Quill & Quire, Investment Executive (IE) and
postdoc @UvA_Amsterdam media studies. phd @SFU. wrote algorithmic authenticity (meson press 2023). I research how people (ab)use data, masculinity, and theory
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X. Why?

X. Why?

The Outline — Consider your phone. Is it an iPhone X? Maybe you're in deep on some bitcoin and compulsively checking the price of XɃT. Maybe you woke up today in a cold sweat, excited to watch your first XFL game. Notice anything all these things have in common? Yes. Very good.
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Back offices still are works in progress

Back offices still are works in progress

Investment Executive (IE) — A closer look at the numbers reveals advisors have new grievances regarding their back offices. Specifically, five firms in the survey were rated lower by half a point or more in the category, while only one firm was rated higher by that margin. The reasons for this trend vary, but advisors with ScotiaMcLeod Inc.
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Forecasting the Most Aesthetic Cryptocurrency

Forecasting the Most Aesthetic Cryptocurrency

The Strand — A little ditty on crypto for the Strand's 2018 Joke issue.
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Small firms call for greater representation

Small firms call for greater representation

Investment Executive — Chief among the concerns is that the composition of both SROs' boards doesn't reflect the diversity in size of member firms. Many survey participants complained that IIROC's and the MFDA's boards contain an outsized proportion of banks and larger firms, or those firms have a greater voice on the boards than smaller firms do.
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TOK Talks: B.Denham Jolly and Bee Quammie

TOK Talks: B.Denham Jolly and Bee Quammie

TOK Magazine — B. Denham Jolly sits down with Bee Quammie to discuss his autobiography "In the Black: My Life."
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Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture | Quill and Quire

Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture | Quill and Quire

Quill & Quire — Can someone geek out over geekery itself? Benjamin Woo, an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Carleton University, provides a strong case for it in Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture.
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TOK Talks: When Journalists Become the Story

TOK Talks: When Journalists Become the Story

TOK Magazine — Journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Dennis Ward sit down with CBC's Bartley Kives to discuss the potential for journalistic misstep with loaded issues.
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Did Brand New kill Emo?

Did Brand New kill Emo?

Demo Magazine — When does the apex of a genre signal its end?
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A Eulogy to Vine

A Eulogy to Vine

The Strand — The lord giveth, and the lord taketh away. There is no other way to say this: Vine is dead.
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Three board structure proposals in play

Three board structure proposals in play

The Varsity — The University of Toronto Students' Union (UTSU) is one step closer to completing its transition from the Canada Corporations Act to the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act.
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Five Must-See Jane's Walks

Five Must-See Jane's Walks

Now Magazine — "No one can find what will work for our cities by looking at suburban garden cities, manipulating scale models, or inventing dream cities. You've got to get out and walk."
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Second City's new digs

Second City's new digs

Now Magazine — Most trips to Second City, the theatre that's been a staple of Canada's comedy and arts scene since opening in Toronto in 1973, involve a little less drywall dust and a little more banter.
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University, CUPE 3902 enter binding arbitration

University, CUPE 3902 enter binding arbitration

Now Magazine — Class is back in session. After four weeks of escalating action that included walkouts, rallies, ratifications and rejections, the members of CUPE 3902, the union representing the University of Toronto's teaching assistants, lab assistants, markers, graders and non-faculty course instructors has agreed to the university's offer to take negotiations to binding arbitration.
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Cheers for beers (and wine), coming to a grocery store near you

Cheers for beers (and wine), coming to a grocery store near you

Now Magazine — In a move that's decades overdue but also timely given the recent conversation around the Beer Store, The Star reports that Ontario grocery stores (but not convenience stores) will be able to sell beer and wine under new proposed Liberal legislation.
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Five Takeaways from Edward Snowden's CJFE Q&A

Five Takeaways from Edward Snowden's CJFE Q&A

Now Magazine — CBC Radio's Anna Maria Tremonti hosted a live Q&A with National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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Johnnyland's growing all-ages empire

Johnnyland's growing all-ages empire

Now Magazine — Amid the stale beer smell and sticky floors of the Silver Dollar Room, concert promoter Dan Burke is running around like a broken wind-up toy.
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Cart vendors frozen out

Cart vendors frozen out

Now Magazine — "I've already booked my bed at the homeless shelter," David Gareau says. He's only half-joking.
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Toronto schools get with the program

Toronto schools get with the program

Now Magazine — Postsecondary institutions finally adopt two-year-old sexual assault guidelines
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