Today’s Pick: Richard Florida on the Colbert Report
Richard Florida is generating quite the buzz these days, and not just in Toronto!
The UofT/MaRS-bound academic and author of the seminal Rise of the Creative Class was interviewed on the Colbert Report earlier this month. Colbert took a special interest in Florida’s findings on tolerant communities, suggesting with his usual tact that Florida was a gay-bohemian-artist real estate speculator.
Watch the video now.

Chris joins MaRS from McMaster University for the summer. He works in the Social Entrepreneurship program.