Split city: Some B.C. voters don't feel represented as urban centres carved into sprawling, rural ridings
The cities of Prince George and Kamloops are both cut in half, with their residents lumped in with voters living hundreds of kilometres away.
#politics #election #geography #BC #PrinceGeorge #Kamloops
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/prince-george-kamloops-riding-side-1.7510314?cmp=rss
Now the Netherlands are also cutting in funding for #academia, which notably translates in the planned closing of the #EarthSciences department at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Because what we really need now is less research in physical #geography, climatology, geology, glaciology...
https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/closing-vu-earth-sciences-sends-exactly-the-wrong-message
https://mastodon.social/@NielsJdeWinter/114303289236655250
#VU
Today on the blog: answers to this month's quiz questions on geography.
Know your riding — Canada Votes 2025: St. Catharines
The riding runs from Lake Ontario in the north to St. David's Road in the south, and Highway 406 and Twelve Mile Creek to the west and borders Niagara-on-the-Lake to the east.
#election #geography #politics #StCatharines #LakeOntario #NiagaraontheLake
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/st-catharines-riding-profile-1.7491800?cmp=rss
April Quiz Answers
Here are the answers to this month’s six quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.
Geography
Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.
Long Range Mountains candidates are vying to become the west coast’s newest
The federal election is less than two weeks away, and candidates on the west coast of Newfoundland have a lot of ground to cover. With Liberal MP Gudie Hutchings not seeking re-election, it means the district will have a first-time member of parliament. The CBC’s Colleen Connors met up with the Liberal and NDP ca...
#election #politics #geography #westcoast #Newfoundland
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6726403?cmp=rss
#EveryCountryIsUnique puzzle 642
Which country is the only one in the world with these 4 properties?
- Its name has at least 10 letters
- Its flag contains at least these colors: yellow and white
- Has an area less than 10,000 km²
- Drives on the right side of the road
Answer in the comments with a Content Warning! #Geography #Quiz #Vexillology
Fictional city/town planners on television and streaming shows
Here’s our list of shows on broadcast television and streaming services that contain(ed) a character who is a city or town planner. The most recent addition is the character of Helen who appears in the new Netflix/CBC comedy, North of North. If you know of any others that were overlooked, please feel to pass them along.
Peace!
_______
North of North (2025-?) – Netflix/CBC
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Numb3rs (2005-2010) – CBS
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Parks & Recreation (2009-2015) – NBC
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The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-2025) – Hulu
"The future won’t wait for your zip code to catch up! " - Futurist Jim Carroll
Yesterday I noted that the future won't slow down to wait for you to make a decision.
It also has little respect for those who try to avoid the reality that they are in a global economy.
When you step back and look around the world, something becomes crystal clear: The future is not unfolding in one place. It’s emerging everywhere—in labs in Ireland, factories in Vietnam, logistics hubs in the UAE, AI startups in Seoul, and solar grids in Morocco.
But while this global acceleration is happening, too many leaders and organizations are still thinking small. They’re stuck in a local mindset—tethered to domestic market opportunities, legacy business models, obsolete products or services, or outdated assumptions about where real progress comes from.
Here’s the reality: you can’t lead in tomorrow’s economy by thinking inside yesterday’s borders. I've said it before - the future doesn’t care about your region, your history, or your comfort zone. It flows to where the momentum lives. And that momentum is increasingly global.
- AI isn't just a Silicon Valley story—it's being industrialized in China, scaled in Europe, and accelerated in the United Arab Emirates
- the energy transition isn’t a North American trend —it’s becoming the default infrastructure in Scandinavia and the Middle East
- electric vehicles aren't some radical idea with a narrow future - it's becoming the dominant platform in China, Finland, and elsewhere
- advanced manufacturing isn't stuck in Detroit—it's transforming supply chains in Vietnam, Poland, and Mexico.
Meanwhile, companies that remain locally fixated are finding themselves cut off from opportunity—missing emerging markets, lagging on innovation, and getting blindsided by competitors they never saw coming. The world used to watch what happened in one or two countries to know where things were going. Now? You have to watch everywhere - because innovation doesn’t care about geography.
This reality is accelerating in the current economic and political volatility that defies 2025 - such that while one region tries to restore past glories, the rest of the world has decided to continue moving forward. Watch the latter - not the former - to figure out where tomorrow is now unfolding.
Here’s what that means for your strategy:
- innovation is borderless.
- local thinking limits opportunity.
- a global mindset = competitive advantage.
- the future flows to momentum, not geography.
So ask yourself: Are you making decisions based on where the world once was? Or are you aligning with where it’s already going?
Because the future isn’t local anymore.
It’s global.
And it’s moving fast.
**#Global** **#Innovation** **#Future** **#Geography** **#Momentum** **#Opportunity** **#Mindset** **#Competition** **#Acceleration**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/04/decoding-tomorrow-your-daily-future-inspiration-the-future-wont-wait-for-your-zip-code-to-catch-up/
Abstract submitted to the European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography #ECTQG conference in #Tallinn.
It is a new acquaintance to me, apparently rather big among geographers who work with #network data and other #quantitative #geography folks. Anybody else going?
#OTD April 15, 1912, the Titanic sank after hitting in iceberg. An estimate 1517 people died. 39% of first class passengers died, whereas 76% of third class passengers perished.
Can you find on a #map where the Titanic sank? Click the link below to guess:
https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=13&type=q
#EveryCountryIsUnique puzzle 637
Which country is the only one in the world with these 3 properties?
- Has a population density less than 20 people/km²
- Is in Asia
- Its fertility rate is less than 2 children per woman
Answer in the comments with a Content Warning! #Geography #Quiz
Cabo Froward/Cape Froward
The End of the Road - Chile.
This is the southernmost point of the South American continent. there is more land south of here, but it's islands, then the sea to Antarctica
An open retail boundary dataset for South Korea using open data and computer vision technique https://www.byteseu.com/921338/ #Economics #geography #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #multidisciplinary #Science #SouthKorea
Study reveals ‘flawed argument’ in debate over when plate tectonics began | Live Science…
Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds... #platetectonics #continentaldrift #geography #earthsciences #geology
Out of these pairs of similar country flags, for which ones are you able to remember which flag is which without looking it up?
Quiz show on in the background.
"What Dutch city is known as the city of peace and justice?"
"Belgium?" suggests one competitor.
"And what would you have said?" ask the host to the other competitor.
"Hmmm. Maybe... Geneva?"
People on quiz shows annoy me.
