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The employee roll at Ben Zifkin's Toronto-based startup is set to double over the coming year to handle the increase in users of his free service, a business-based social network known as Hubba.

Amazon will open a second corporate office in Vancouver, doubling its employee count in the western city, but it has yet to announce where the tech titan's highly sought-after second headquarters will land.

As Canadian cities compete with each other — and dozens of jurisdictions south of the border — for Amazon's new $5-billion headquarters, Justin Trudeau has pitched Canada to the company's founder.

The shill, the grifter, the egomaniac and the ideological fool: each distorts the urgent global debate in their own way, says the Guardian’s Environment editor,