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Making Canadian Suburbs More Age-Friendly

Two-thirds of Canadians live in the suburbs, but the car-dependent neighbourhoods are “no place to grow old,” says Glenn Miller, a senior associate at the Canadian Urban Institute.

As the population ages and the life expectancy of Canadians increases, there’s a lot of discussion about where older people are going to live and how to make their communities more age-friendly.

The baby boom…

For this company, online surveillance leads to profit in Washington’s suburbs

In a small office in Ashburn, Va., ensconced among the government contractors that make up the Dulles Technology Corridor, a start-up called Babel Street is bringing government-style surveillance to an entirely new market. The company’s Web crawlers, offered under a subscription called Babel X, trawl some 40 online sources, scooping up data from popular sites such as Instagram and a Korean social…