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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social

'Platform Politics: Reflecting on Toronto's History with Tech Giants' w/ ‪ @layates.bsky.social at @utoronto.ca From Uber, Airbnb, Sidewalk Labs to Magna's autonomos delivery bots. September 4th 5pm - 7pm h/t ‪ @ghadaa.bsky.social @thestar.com www.eventbrite.ca/e/platform-p...

Reflecting on Toronto's History with Tech Giants: 4 September 5-7PM From Uber, Airbnb, Sidewalk Labs to Magna's autonomos delivery bots UofT St. George Sidney Smith Hall Room 5017 A Speaker Luke Yates, Author 'Platform Politics', University of Manchester Moderator Ghada Alsharif, Immigration and Labour reporter, Toronto Star Panelists Vass Bednar, Managing Director at Canadian SHIELD Institute Lis Pimentel, labour organizer and chair of Fairbnb Canada Earla Phillips, longtime Uber/Lyft driver and Vice President of the Rideshare Drivers Association of Ontario Paula Fletcher, Toronto City Councillor and Chair of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee Khasir Hean, lead organizer with Technologists for Democracy
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George Bell @george.borkbork.ca

Our strategy seems to be to drive them out of the city - with nobody caring about the economic, employment or competitiveness of the city compared to where they end up…add scooters, robots to the list…if I’m a VC investing in a Toronto company that works with the city, my first suggestion is to move

sep 1, 2025, 12:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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George Bell @george.borkbork.ca

Anyways, I bet Paula will be entirely ridiculous about cameras recording in public spaces…something that anyone can do with their phone for the last 2 decades…but she has concerns about magna doing it…lol…don’t tell her about Google or Tesla…

sep 1, 2025, 12:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thorben Wieditz @twieditz.bsky.social

The tagged Luke Yates, is a different Yates. The one that comes to talk about his book is associated with the University of Manchester.

sep 1, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view