OPINIONS

A new hope

Finding your way to the light, no matter how dark it gets

Does state surveillance really keep us safe?

In a time of injustice, Clearview AI poses a fresh threat to those most vulnerable among us

The art of walking

A step at a time towards appreciating nature

The “enthusiastic yes”

Ontario’s battle for consent education

Virginity and shame

Sexually active women? Sluts. Virgin men? Losers.

Love, love, love

Unwinding a word

Going viral

Contagious coverage in the era of social media

Exams and equity

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The upward loop

 Looking at family histories It’s a source of pride to me that I can bake a batch of ginger molasses cookies, put them all in the oven, and have the mess cleaned up in about an hour. This recipe, clipped from The Globe and Mail years ago, makes the best cookies. They are always moist and ...

The death of the polymath

Why we need to know a little about a lot “I fear we are witnessing the ‘death of expertise’,” writes Tom Nichols in a 2014 article. “A Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between professionals and laymen, students and teachers, knowers and wonderers—in other words, between those of any achievement in an ...