While the world is craving for more communication technology, New Denver B.C , population 556, does not want to have cellphone coverage and is fighting to keep telecommunication company from installing a transmission antenna to bring cellphone coverage to the small community.

“People get sick and tired of having conversations interrupted by someone picking up a beeping machine,” says New Denver’s long-time mayor, Gary Wright. “It’s just another of those gizmos that change the way we act as human beings.”[The Globe and Mail]

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In his book McMafia, Misha Glenny introduces you to the less familiar aspects of crime, from Kazakhstan’s caviar mafia to the flourishing marijuana trade in British Columbia.

The author suggest something, that most of us already knew - in BC, cannabis provides more jobs than logging, mining, oil and gas combined.

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