Online classes are not worth cost of full tuition

Universities need to stop pretending online courses will be the same quality as in-person, and they need to stop asking students to pay the full-servi... | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 3 years ago

What the new Hong Kong security law means for Canadians – everywhere

Sweeping law imposed by Beijing creates various ways to get into legal trouble — and also applies to anyone outside the region. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 3 years ago

Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website

Moroccan journalist Omar Radi investigates connections between politicians and business people, as well as social movements and human rights. In other... | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 3 years ago

Israeli intelligence failures led to a ‘devil's advocate’ role (2017)

Israel’s inability to perceive enemies’ plans before 1973 Yom Kippur War led to creation of the Tenth Man, a way to ensure contrary assessments at lea... | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 3 years ago

Sidewalk, the partner you never wanted to have

Studying the relationship between Sidewalk Labs and the City of Toronto reveals they had different dreams of what their partnership might become. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 3 years ago

It took a deadly pandemic to get Toronto to embrace a faster building methods

Modular buildings allow the city to build 110 units of afforable housing in five months, instead of several years, writes Matt Elliott. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 3 years ago

When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages

In the early 1950s, a young lieutenant realized the fatal flaw in the cockpit design of U.S. air force jets. Todd Rose explains in an excerpt from his... | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

I’m a healthy millennial. Getting Covid-19 was so much worse than I expected

Star reporter May Warren contracted COVID-19 after a small dinner party. She thought it would be a mild case—until it wasn’t. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Stop exporting N95 masks to Canada, Trump administration tells U.S. manufacturer

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@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Canada’s spy service moving quietly ahead with data-crunching plans

Civil liberties advocates say they have concerns over the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s plans to collect and use databases containing perso... | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Coronavirus rebels from France to Florida flout lockdown practices

PARIS - Young German adults hold “corona parties" and cough toward older people. A Spanish man leashes a goat to go for a walk to skirt confinement or... | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Lessons on social distancing from the 1918 flu pandemic

Philly vs. St. Louis and how they handled the Spanish Flu in 1918 has become a shorthand in epidemiology and a lesson in the merits of social distanci... | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Alberta government infuriates doctors just as it needs them most

Premier Kenney broke the government’s contract with the Alberta Medical Association and announced a lower fee schedule as the medical community was pr... | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

I won’t stay at home when I’m sick

If I don’t go to work I don’t get paid. Showing up to work is the only way I can pay rent and make my monthly student loan payments. Public health aut... | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Ottawa orders cellphone providers to cut prices by 25%

The Liberal government is giving Canada’s big three telecommunications companies two years to slash the price of select cellphone plans by 25 per cent... | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Why do so many bad drivers have luxury cars? A new study blames disagreeable men

The overwhelming anecdotal evidence isn’t wrong, according to a new study looking at the kinds of people who are drawn to buy high-end cars likes BMWs, Audis and Mercedes. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Is it fair game for adults to snipe at child activists like Greta Thunberg?

Children and teens, in this era of blurred boundaries, have at their disposal mobile megaphones — for the first time in human history — to reach the entire world. That allows them to be heard, and potentially taken seriously, by hundreds of millions of people. But does it give th … | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Internet agency finds explicit photos on president’s computer, fires IT staff

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority says it has “appropriately resolved” the matter and continues to take steps to ensure a safe and respectful workplace. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Amazon rainforest ‘completely lawless’ after Brazilian president’s first year

Jair Bolsonaro has voiced an aggressive, nationalistic view of the Amazon, describing the rainforest as a resource to be exploited rather than a safeguard against climate change. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Woman handcuffed for not holding escalator handrail wins in Supreme Court

Bela Kosoian is awarded $20,000 after a bizarre decade-long legal case. “I was principled and I knew something was wrong.” | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

How to ensure corrections reach a broad readership in the digital age | The Star

Correcting mistakes prominently is integral to journalists earning the trust of readers. To do this in the digital age requires new tools. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Zadie Smith on Fighting the Algorithm

Acclaimed author of new short-story collection “Grand Union” underlines the effort in becoming fully human, particularly in an age where tech and tech companies create “a system which makes you manifestly unfree.” | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

The case for finally adopting a universal basic income

We’re currently hyper-focused on measuring outputs like productivity, GDP, and workforce participation, but outputs matter less when a large part of your citizenry can’t make ends meet. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Protests paralyze Catalonia as marches head for Barcelona

BARCELONA, Spain - Catalonia and its riot-swept regional capital, Barcelona, were paralyzed Friday by a mix of strikes and marches as the northeastern Spanish region endured its fifth day of mass protests over the conviction of independence leaders. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

I knew my Airbnb would be watching me – but it still creeped me out

Renters beware — I rented an Airbnb that listed a security camera, but didn’t realize it would be pointed at the kitchen, living room and entrance to the washroom, writes Shawn Micallef. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Sidewalk Labs crafting ‘appendix’ in response to Quayside proposal criticism

Sidewalk Labs says it’s working on a ‘couple hundred page” follow up to its lengthy master plan proposal for Quayside, intended as a response to criticisms the proposal is too abstract and unwieldy | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

How do you hide a war from your loved one? Lie about everything;incl the bombs

The strange tale of Charlotte Fridy, whose family hid the existence of a world war — for years — no matter the absurdity. The ethics are dubious, but the story was viewed positively, and has resonance in popular movies like Good Bye, Lenin! | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

A privatized highway became a road with no greed limit

Linda McQuaig looks back at the details — and all the red flags that were ignored — in the woefully underpriced deal by the Mike Harris Conservatives as part of her new book about privatization and capitalism. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

What the Halifax Wanderers can teach us about building a great city

The new downtown facility for the soccer team shows that small investments to test out projects pay off in the long run, Tristan Cleveland writes. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Apollo for Reddit creator generated $27,355 in donations for his birthday

Christian Selig, the creator of the Apollo for Reddit app, raised more than $27,000 through app sales on his birthday that will go toward costs associated with kitten season — the time of year when the province’s shelters become flooded with abandoned, injured and orphaned kitten … | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

The obsessive dreamers behind a $17M miniature model of Canada

An engineer and a businessman have teamed up to create painstakingly accurate miniatures of Toronto, Quebec City, Niagara Falls and more. They hope their still-growing ‘Little Canada’ will become the country’s biggest new tourism hit. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Canadian spies given new ‘disruption’ powers to combat foreign influence

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s mandate allows it to take direct action to “reduce” threats to Canada’s national security and interests, rather than simply collect intelligence. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

The Case for Density Not Single Family Homes

Toronto should follow the lead of some U.S. and European cities and reintroduce density, affordability and diversity into neighbourhoods that have become enclaves of financial privilege. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Vice reporter loses final bid to block Police demand for background material

An Ontario Superior Court judge ruled the Mounties still have valid reasons to make their demand of journalist Ben Makuch and Vice Media in the terrorism case. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Chinese neighbourhood auntie teaches Vancouver millennials life-long values

Rory Tucker was confused when Li Yinshun first showed up in the yard of the East Vancouver home he rented. They didn’t speak the same language, but with mutual respect and curiosity, they managed to cultivate a garden and a friendship. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Long-term rentals back on market in Vancouver thanks to new Airbnb rules

But the use of short-term rentals is growing in B.C.’s suburbs and small towns, contributing to the housing affordability crunch. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Toronto’s tech worker pay growth is among the highest in the world

GTA and Boston tie for highest growth rate in international survey. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Analysis shows foreign money fueled Vancouver’s sky-high high real estate prices

SFU professor Josh Gordon says he’s found “a remarkably strong relationship” between high home prices and non-resident ownership. But not everyone agrees with his analysis. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

The bible on giraffes author ignored as woman until became a film festival star

Zoology pioneer Anne Innis Dagg was denied tenure despite groundbreaking research. She’s finally getting apologies, recognition, and standing ovations at documentary screenings. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Sidewalk Labs delivers master plan for Quayside smart-city project to Toronto

Waterfront Toronto says it will release the plan to the public in a week. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Facebook investor: “Shutting down FB is a rational thing to do”

Silicon Valley investor Roger McNamee was an early backer of Facebook. Now he’s one of the company’s harshest critics. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

Transport Canada to conduct safety review of Boeing 737 Max

Transport Canada is conducting its own review of design changes to the Boeing 737 Max aircraft to ensure that the “safety risks” identified in two fatal crashes are addressed before the jet is allowed to fly again in Canadian skies. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 4 years ago

The Toronto Star: How to Achieve Eudaimonia and Other Lessons from the Stoics

Bad things happen to everyone but we can control how we react—and a regimen of thought experiments and exercises espoused by Marcus Aurelius and his disciples can help you stop these negative thought patterns, writes Christine Sismondo. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 5 years ago

Women podcasters face discrimination for their opinions and their voices

Voices that deviate from the norm are often condemned as not authoritative or comforting, says a professor and feminist podcast host. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 5 years ago

Car is watching you. But who owns the billions worth of data?

A car can generate about 25 gigabytes of data an hour. And the data trove in the hands of automakers could be worth as much as $750 billion by 2030 | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 5 years ago

AI pioneer urges Toronto to back ethical use of artificial intelligence

“We want Canada to be united behind the goal of an ethical AI,” says renowned computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, who helped organize Montreal’s ethical AI framework. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 5 years ago

Homeless B.C. seniors caught in heartbreaking shuffle

At the convergence of the opioid crisis, mental health crisis, housing crisis and a rapidly aging population are vulnerable seniors like Melanie Keays of Surrey, B.C., who are bounced between emergency rooms and homeless shelters — sometimes twice in one day. And while hospitals … | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 5 years ago

Cars blocking streetcar tracks should be towed – immediately

You would think in a city with a long history of streetcars and snow, we'd have a solution to the problem of cars parked next to snowbanks blocking streetcar tracks, writes Edward Keenan. | Continue reading


@thestar.com | 5 years ago