Vancouver aritst Casey Wei wins Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize

Vancouver aritst Casey Wei wins Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize

Vancouver artist Casey Wei has won this year's $25,000 Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize.

She was among five contenders who displayed their work at The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver in the Lind Biennial exhibition.

Wei's video installation, titled The Zhang Clan, spans three screens as it explores her mother's family's migration to Melbourne, Australia from China after the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Lind jurors praise the work for "upending the conventions of documentary filmmaking" and say Wei "successfully transposes her DIY esthetics and community-based art into a gallery setting."

Bayer Canada begins construction on new R&D facility in St. B

Instead of canola on Friday, there was sod.

But in two years’ time, by current estimates, the bare plot of land in a St. Boniface industrial park will hold canola samples and seeds for testing.

Bayer Canada officially broke ground on a 60,000-square-foot research and development facility Friday morning.

“It’s about bringing new and better innovation to farmers,” said Kacy Perry, Bayer Crop Science Canada’s country division head.

Consumer apprehension grows as US retailers adopt AI-assisted pricing tools

U.S. consumers aren't just frustrated with high prices. They're angry and confused about the increasingly high-tech ways that restaurant chains and major retailers are setting those prices.

Digital price tags are rapidly replacing paper ones in grocery aisles. Artificial intelligence tools help businesses decide what to charge by predicting how customers might respond. Terms like “dynamic pricing” and “surveillance pricing” are stirring anxiety on social media, where users wonder if different people are getting different prices for the same product.

Americans have grown accustomed to changing prices when booking flights, hotel rooms and rides, but the prospect of everyday spending shaped by algorithms they don’t understand and personal data they may not realize they’re sharing has touched a nerve.

“There are major tensions happening right now between who’s really going to have the power with some of these algorithms and usage of bots and AI: the companies or the shopper,” said Katie Thomas, who leads an internal consumer behavior think tank at the management consulting firm Kearney.

Letters, Oct. 19

I agree entirely with this assessment of the services provided in this city. Winnipeg works off slim budgets and it is readily apparent that it tends to do things on the cheap, but maybe it is forced to.