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
Sweeping law imposed by Beijing creates various ways to get into legal trouble — and also applies to anyone outside the region. | Continue reading
Moroccan journalist Omar Radi investigates connections between politicians and business people, as well as social movements and human rights. In other... | Continue reading
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
Studying the relationship between Sidewalk Labs and the City of Toronto reveals they had different dreams of what their partnership might become. | Continue reading
Modular buildings allow the city to build 110 units of afforable housing in five months, instead of several years, writes Matt Elliott. | Continue reading
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
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
Civil liberties advocates say they have concerns over the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s plans to collect and use databases containing perso... | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bela Kosoian is awarded $20,000 after a bizarre decade-long legal case. “I was principled and I knew something was wrong.” | Continue reading
Correcting mistakes prominently is integral to journalists earning the trust of readers. To do this in the digital age requires new tools. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
GTA and Boston tie for highest growth rate in international survey. | Continue reading
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
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
Waterfront Toronto says it will release the plan to the public in a week. | Continue reading
Silicon Valley investor Roger McNamee was an early backer of Facebook. Now he’s one of the company’s harshest critics. | Continue reading
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
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
Voices that deviate from the norm are often condemned as not authoritative or comforting, says a professor and feminist podcast host. | Continue reading
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
“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
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
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