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Can A Late Higher Bid Reopen A Receivership Sale? Lessons From Cameron Stephens Mortgage Capital Ltd. V. Conacher Kingston Holdings
Simon Wu’s articles from Clark Wilson LLP are most popular: in United States with readers working within the Media & Information industries Clark Wilson LLP are most popular: within Finance and Banking, Technology and Privacy topic(s) with Inhouse Counsel When a court-appointed receiver markets an insolvent debtor’s real property, courts must balance two competing objectives: preserving the integrity and predictability of the sale process, and maximizing value for creditors.
Can a Late Higher Bid Reopen a Receivership Sale? Lessons from Cameron Stephens Mortgage Capital Ltd. v. Conacher Kingston Holdings
By Simon Wu and Aaron Libby When a court-appointed receiver markets an insolvent debtor’s real property, courts must balance two competing objectives: preserving the integrity and predictability of the sale process, and maximizing value for creditors. In Cameron Stephens Mortgage Capital Ltd. v. Conacher Kingston Holdings, 2025 ONCA 732, the Ontario Court of Appeal confirmed that a substantially higher late offer may justify reopening an otherwise fair receivership sale process.
The Startling Intimacy of Peter Hujar’s Contact Sheets
Frieze PublishingYes, email me reviews, offers, and opinions by artists, writers, and editors from Frieze Frieze EventsYes, email me Frieze Events Inc and Frieze Events Ltd’s global programme information including special offers and benefits The American photographer Peter Hujar produced 5,783 contact sheets in his lifetime, saving them for a day when he hoped he would be spoken of ‘in whispers’.
Complex Restructuring With A Simple Solution? Understanding Director Releasees Under Governing Canadian Statues
Clark Wilson LLP are most popular: within Technology and Finance and Banking topic(s) with Senior Company Executives, HR and Finance and Tax Executives in Canada with readers working within the Accounting & Consultancy, Business & Consumer Services and Technology industries As the restructuring landscape evolves, Canadian courts continue to balance both the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (“CCAA”) and associated federal taxing statutes. Two Alberta decisions; Freedom Cannabis Inc.
Arch Connelly Mines Art History for Camp Glamour
Frieze PublishingYes, email me reviews, offers, and opinions by artists, writers, and editors from Frieze Frieze EventsYes, email me Frieze Events Inc and Frieze Events Ltd’s global programme information including special offers and benefits In Roberto Juarez’s video portrait of Arch Connelly (Portrait of Arch Connelly, 1975), which adorns the outside wall of ‘Straighten Your Wig and Pray’, Connelly’s thoughtful survey at Aspen Art Museum, the artist emerges from a mise en abyme of fabric,...
Josiane M.H. Pozi: When the Internet Was Fun
The artist’s solo at American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, recalls a time when data didn’t feel so evil In a plush gallery inside the academy’s palatial beaux-arts building, video screens line the walls, high and low, black wires between them hanging like festive garlands. The wires run around the room, close to the baseboard. At one point, they curl upward into the shape of a tulip.
I let Gemma 4 analyze my credit card statements so I wouldn't have to
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built Swipey, a local-first, privacy focused web app for people juggling multiple credit cards across multiple banks. Drag in a CSV of transactions from Chase or Capital One, pick a month, and Gemma 4 produces a digest of that month's spending: a spotlight, a few patterns, and a few suggestions. It also proposes "groups" that bundle similar transactions and sum the spend, which you can edit inline.
Ascension
When the undead arrive, I am tidying up. “If you use your right thumb to build, you can use the left one to shoot,” Nick says. Nick is my brother and very good at Call of Duty. He is teaching me and my friends, the gays and the women, how to kill zombies. He has relegated me to boarding up the entrances. We have taken up shelter in an abandoned movie theater, a kino, as they say in Germany. Nick looks out onto the plaza, where the enemies have begun to spawn.
In a Show at Stanford, Miljohn Ruperto Trolls the Death Drive of AI Guys
As I stood in front of a black screen, a luminous alien creature with five legs and translucent antennae appeared. After a minute, it morphed into an isopod with larger, more articulated limbs. Fathoms (Tartarapelagic), 2025–26, by Miljohn Ruperto, uses AI to generate otherworldly creatures like these, all based on species recently discovered in the Pacific Ocean’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ).
Meet Maia Chao, the Art World Anthropologist Making Her Whitney Biennial Debut
Drawing from her background in anthropology, Maia Chao often approaches art with an observation, then a question: Where does the art in doctors’ offices come from? How do you make a living as an artist? Building on these inquiries, often through mimicry or replication, leads to works that can make the mundane feel absurd, beautiful, or troubling. So it was with filler words.
Refinement of the classification of DDX41 variants through analysis of aggregated clinical datasets - Leukemia
Abstract Deleterious germline DDX41 variants are the leading cause of heritable predisposition to myelodysplastic neoplasia and acute myeloid leukemia (MDS/AML). Accurate classification of pathogenicity is crucial for managing patients and their families. The absence of specific guidelines, along with late-onset disease, incomplete penetrance, and founder variants, poses challenges in clinical and laboratory practice.
The Body is a House on Fire
In the basement of the Best Western where the retreat was being held, I found a reproduction of a famous image of the sublime by Caspar David Friedrich: a man at the top of a cliff, overlooking a vast vista, mist obscuring the landscape below. This particular reproduction was covered with a glass panel, set within a gold frame, and flanked by stock photos of glassy buildings.
‘Homage’ Traces Queer Artistic Legacies
Frieze PublishingYes, email me reviews, offers, and opinions by artists, writers, and editors from Frieze Frieze EventsYes, email me Frieze Events Inc and Frieze Events Ltd’s global programme information including special offers and benefits The premise of ‘Homage: Queer lineages on video’,curated by Rattanamol Singh Johal at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery, is simple: queer people look for family and friends across time and space. Here, this proposition has art historical effects.
Navigating Cross-Border Insolvency In The Digital Age: Insights From Atom Holdings
Recent British Columbia cases, Atom Holdings (Re), 2024 BCSC 1397, and its appellate follow-up, Su v. Atom Holdings, 2025 BCCA 199, offer valuable insights into the complex landscape of cross-border insolvencies, especially where cryptocurrency and digital asset recovery are involved. These decisions not only illustrate the legal complexities inherent in such matters but also showcase innovative uses of the Cross-Border Insolvency provisions in the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (R.S.C., 1985, c.
What’s to Love About the New Jersey Turnpike? Everything.
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. What’s to Love About the New Jersey Turnpike? Everything. Get on this highway and take a drive straight into science fiction. Credit...Adam Pape for The New York Times July 8, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET Like many who grew up in the Northeast, I rarely thought about the New Jersey Turnpike, other than to joke about its ugliness.
Monks in Jersey by Simon Wu Original
By Simon Wu July 3, 2025 We came in two cars. A white Honda Odyssey, the back row of seats kowtowed under great reams of toilet paper. Everything else—cartons of grapes, jugs of water, Tupperwares of cut fruit, all of our modern alms—in the trunk. The rest in a white Toyota Corolla. Two cars full of supplies and people for a weekend of living more with less. Not for camping, but for monkhood.
Excerpts from The Believer: Place: The Home Depot
- - - FEATURES: Ceiling fans Nursery Sheer and unrelenting possibility - - - I thought we had come to the Home Depot to replace the metal numbers on my mother’s mailbox. But the problem we bring is not the problem we leave with. We walk down an aisle full of toilets, sinks, and light switches. Inexplicably, we are soon considering a patio repaving. And then new carpet for my brother’s bedroom, and a garage conversion.
Fintech Isn’t Just Back, It’s Being Rearchitected for AI
Everyone’s been saying it — “fintech is back.” But for early-stage founders, it doesn’t always feel that way. In categories like consumer and business banking, spend management or payments, the room is already crowded. Companies like Chime, Ramp, Mercury and Stripe dominate the news cycle and have become the perceived winners, soaking up capital and customer mindshare. But under the surface, something deeper is happening.
How Art Spiegelman and "Maus" embrace the pain of the past
From the first spread of Art Spiegelman’s graphic memoir “Maus,” one can already glean his signature mix of the autobiographical, the fictional and the poetic. “It was summer, I remember I was ten or eleven,” “Maus” begins. Three mice roller skate through a neighborhood, rendered in simple, scratchy pen strokes. A dog in a collared shirt and pants, a toothpick sticking out of his teeth, mows the lawn.
Purchaser's Lien: A Valid Claim To Interest In Land
In a recent decision, 1332404 B.C. Ltd. v. 1266685 B.C. Ltd., 2025 BCCA 46, the BC Court of Appeal has revisited the lesser-known remedy of a purchaser's lien and discussed how this lien can be enforced against real property. This dispute involved a failed real estate sale of two development lots in Langley. During the development approval process, the subdivision rendered the lots unusable for the purchaser's development purposes.
Purchaser’s Lien: a Valid Claim to Interest in Land
In a recent decision, 1332404 B.C. Ltd. v. 1266685 B.C. Ltd., 2025 BCCA 46, the BC Court of Appeal has revisited the lesser-known remedy of a purchaser’s lien and discussed how this lien can be enforced against real property. Background This dispute involved a failed real estate sale of two development lots in Langley. During the development approval process, the subdivision rendered the lots unusable for the purchaser’s development purposes.
Workplace Safety And Criminal Negligence
Most construction projects are inherently risky and failure to adhere to safety protocols can result in criminal liability. In 2004, the Criminal Code was amended to modernize the criminal law's approach to establishing criminal liability of corporations and employees for workplace deaths and injuries.1 This amendment came into place after 26 miners lost their lives in an explosion in Nova Scotia.
The Liminal Words of Lotus L. Kang
Frieze PublishingYes, email me reviews, offers, and opinions by artists, writers, and editors from Frieze Frieze EventsYes, email me Frieze Events Inc and Frieze Events Ltd’s global programme information including special offers and benefits Since 2022, Lotus L. Kang has used greenhouses to tan her ‘skins’: great sheets of unfixed, light-sensitive film that she bruises into blues, purples and oranges under the sun.
A Very Real American Place: The Suburban Unconscious in Mike Kelley
The suburb of Westland, Michigan, where Mike Kelley grew up, may be one of the only cities in the US renamed after a mall. In the early 1960s, when its neighboring city of Livonia planned to annex Nankin Township, as it was then known, residents voted to incorporate it as their own city. They looked to the new mall set to be built in town for a namesake: the Westland Shopping Center.
Cathay Innovation US: 2025 VC Outlook
From IPOs to crypto and the rise of vertical AI — Investors weigh in on the trends, technologies and startups to watch in the coming year Simon Wu · Follow Published in Cathay Innovation · 12 min read · -- Written by Simon Wu; Edits by Jaclyn Hartnett In the world of tech, startups and venture capital — 2024 can be considered the year of AI tools, transitioning from its initial hype cycle to real world applications.
When Can a MRSA Nares Swab Guide Antibiotic Stewardship?
When Can a MRSA Nares Swab Guide Antibiotic Stewardship?What the Nose Knows Clinicians treating infections in the hospital often face uncertainty about when coverage for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is warranted.
When Paul P. Thinks of Boys
When Paul P. thinks of boys, he thinks of them lying down, hands on their pale chests. Or looking away, engulfed in green clouds. Or hands in the air, exposing the soft fuzz of their armpits. In his first solo exhibition at Greene Naftali, P. fills three enormous galleries with an array of tiny paintings which date from 2012 to 2024, as well as a series of metal sculptures. Most of the works are portraits.
AI WealthTech Company Range Raises $28 Million Series B Led by Cathay Innovation
Range, the all-in-one AI WealthTech platform, raised $28 million in Series B funding, led by Cathay Innovation and joined by Gradient Ventures and other investors. This round brings the company’s total funding to $40 million. Traditional financial advisors have offered the same types of wealth management services to consumers for decades. Range is overhauling the sector with a new AI engine they created named: Rai.
The Stubbornly Live Ethos of Tina Girouard
The first thing you will see upon entering Tina Girouard’s retrospective at the Center for Art, Research, and Alliances (CARA) is a loop of floral fabric that hangs down from the second floor. Drawn from a set of 1940s-era fabrics that Girouard received from her mother-in-law, who in turn received them from a relative named Solomon Matlock, the ‘Solomon’s Lot’ fabrics (1970s) recur in various installations and performances across 50 years of her collaborative practice.
How “The Boyfriend” Distills Gay Romance
In the early days, the boys like to play games. Rock, paper, scissors––loser has to admit his crush. Now, raise your hand if you want to work together. Write a letter to the person you like.
Ten Great New Personal Essays...
Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals: Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus, Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “The Doctor Will See You Now” by .
Costco in Cancún
By Simon Wu July 18, 2024 When we arrive at the Paradisus, I worry I have made the first of many mistakes. Has Costco failed us? A bland remix of Ed Sheeran wafts up from the swim-up bar in the central courtyard into the lobby. My parents do not drink. They do not like to swim. I worry that Ed Sheeran will follow us to our room. I continue to worry. Three months ago, I called Ramona, a Costco Travel representative, and asked her a question.
A Tackle Too Far: The Standard Of Care In Recreational Sports
Is the careless or reckless execution of a permitted sport maneuver negligent? The British Columbia Court of Appeal, in the recent decision of Miller v Cox, 2024 BCCA 3 ("Miller"), upheld the Trial Judge's findings that the appellant's execution of a slide tackle in a recreational soccer league game fell below the requisite standard of care. Accordingly, the appellant was held liable for the injuries he caused to the respondent.
The Possessions of Paul Pfeiffer
When Paul Pfeiffer was ten years old, he dreamt that he was possessed by the devil. He had just moved from the tropical suburbs of Hawaii to a rural town in the Philippines, where his parents were to be music teachers. “One day I went to sleep in a normal way,” Pfeiffer recounts to Thomas Ruff in a 2004 interview. “Some time in the night I woke up and felt that I was awake, but everything in my bedroom looked different. In fact, I could not feel my body and my sense of space had changed.
The Possessions of Paul Pfieffer
When Paul Pfeiffer was ten years old, he dreamt that he was possessed by the devil. He had just moved from the tropical suburbs of Hawaii to a rural town in the Philippines, where his parents were to be music teachers. “One day I went to sleep in a normal way,” Pfeiffer recounts to Thomas Ruff in a 2004 interview. “Some time in the night I woke up and felt that I was awake, but everything in my bedroom looked different. In fact, I could not feel my body and my sense of space had changed.
The Making of Home: On Space, Scarcity, and the Production of Diasporic Aesthetics
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The Making of Home: On Space, Scarcity, and the Production of Diasporic Aesthetics
My mom calls me. She has found a house on Zillow. It has all the extravagant, absolutely necessary fixtures of suburbia: a three-car garage, central air, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and twenty-foot ceilings. If my brothers and I used our money for a mortgage instead of rent, she says, we could live there together. Article continues below She wants to move to a bigger house. I think that we have too much stuff, but she would rather expand the container than shear down the contents.
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 13: Circumventing Google's AI Responses & Pride Month Resources
June 28, 2024 This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'A Wedding In Lake Como: A Novel' By Jennifer Probst
Best friends Ava, Madison, and Chelsea made a pact to reunite for each other’s weddings when their careers sent them in different directions. But after one of them makes a choice that tears the group apart, an upcoming wedding might be their last chance to heal old wounds. Ava is about to marry the man she loves in a lavish ceremony on the shores of Lake Como, but she’s haunted by the mistakes she’s made.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'Four Squares: A Novel' By Bobby Finger
The book is in stores on Tuesday, June 18th from Putnam. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3J4ABkU In 1992, on his thirtieth birthday, Artie Anderson meets the man who will change his life. Artie spends his days at a tedious advertising job, finding relief in the corner of New York City he can call his own, even as the queer community is still being ravaged by HIV.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'The Next Mrs. Parrish' By Liv Constantine
The book is in stores on Tuesday, June 18th from Bantam. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3TJPGx1 Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way. Hard work and immaculate planning turned her from invisible wallflower to prominent socialite, though there have been bumps along the way. Less than a year after her husband Jackson’s tax-evasion scandal, Amber reigns supreme over the Bishops Harbor community.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'Pets And The City' By Dr. Amy Attas
The book is in stores on Tuesday, June 18th from Putnam. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4dS7NtI New York City’s premier “house call veterinarian” takes you into the exclusive penthouses and four-star hotel rooms of the wealthiest New Yorkers and shows that, when it comes to their pets, they are just as neurotic as any of us. When a pet is sick, people—even the rich and famous—are at their most authentic and vulnerable.
Datebook: The Art World’s Summer Happenings to Add to Your Calendar
The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019–2022 by Peter Schjeldahl Few who read Peter Schjeldahl’s essay “The Art of Dying” when it was published in the New Yorker in late 2019 will ever forget its gimlet-eyed stare-down with death, but even more stirring was the fact that the fabled art critic managed to keep writing for nearly three years more. This book starts with the namesake masterpiece and collects all the rest of his words for the magazine until the end.
Celebrating Nil Yalter’s ‘Exile is a Hard Job’
In 2018, I spent a summer in Berlin, renting a room in Kreuzberg, a neighbourhood historically populated by Turkish Gastarbeiter - economic migrants who moved to West Germany after World War II to fill severe labour shortages. By the late 2010s, Kreuzberg was mostly inhabited by their descendants, a Turkish-German diaspora of more than three million people, under threat of displacement by encroaching tech companies.
Cathay Innovation US: 2024 VC Outlook
In the world of tech, startups and venture capital, 2023 was undoubtedly a year marked by AI. We saw high-profile IPOs of ARM, Instacart, and Klaviyo, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the $20B Adobe-Figma deal flop, the Twitter X rebrand, and talks of a Musk vs. Zuckerberg cage match. But AI still took the cake with integrations across popular product suites (think Microsoft, Google, etc.)… and of course, the big firing / re-hiring of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Simon Wu Bridges the Pop Culture-Art Writing Rift
Andrew Durbin Earlier this year, we published your essay on the year in Asian American media. It’s partly about the film Joy Ride [2023]. You write that the film argues that your identity is not just your heritage, but your friends. The passage prompted me to think about the artistic and aesthetic allegiances that make us the writers we are, and I’m wondering about the other writers or artists you align yourself with? Simon Wu My family and friends make most of my creative process possible.
The Year of Asian American Media
‘Have you seen Joy Ride?’ my friend Julie texts me. When I moved away from Brooklyn last year to go to graduate school in New Haven, I’d wake up feeling listless and randomly anxious as I checked my text messages. I missed both my friends and the city, realizing in their absence that they had come to constitute my self-conception. Without them, I had to assert that energy myself, and it made me tired and self-conscious. ‘It’s not just you,’ Julie had said earlier in the summer.
Kenyan Architects Cave_Bureau Imagine an Indigenous Museum Model Unique to Africa Original
SURROUNDING THE BUSTLING CITY of Nairobi is a miles-long network of caves formed thousands of years ago when lava hit groundwater and quickly cooled. The earliest humans used them as homes, and there is evidence―the salted walls at Kitum Cave, Maasai drawings in the Suswa caves―that local tribes used various spaces within the vast subterranean network to eat and access water, and as hideouts and shrines until they were forced out by British colonizers.
"A Multiculti Blitzkrieg": On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color
Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art integrated the glass buildings on either side of the museum so that when you are sitting towards 54th street, in the Cullman offices, in your little cubicle, like I did when I worked there as an administrative assistant from 2019 to 2021, you can see the galleries across the sculpture garden, with its visitors moving around like dolls. The museum’s see-through modernism, however, belies a different kind of opacity.
How Ghost is Revolutionizing Inventory Management with Access to Excess
Today, brands face an 'inventory apocalypse', where excess inventory is burgeoning. Why? A few drivers: supply chain disruptions, unpredictable demand, changing direct-to-consumer advertising dynamics... the list goes on. The excess inventory market already generates $500B of sales annually, expected to grow to $830B by 2030 - while approximately $160B of that inventory is destroyed each year. What's the issue?
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