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Dream Machines - The real threat with artificial intelligence is that we'll fall prey to its hype

Some of the world's largest companies, including Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet, are throwing their full weight behind AI. On top of the billions spent by big tech, funding for AI startups hit nearly $50 billion (US) in 2023.

MY GUILTY PLEASURE

MY CHILDREN are grown, with their own partners, their own lives.

The Quest to Decode Vermeer's True Colours

New techniques reveal hidden details in the Dutch master’s paintings

Repeat after Me

TikTok and Instagram are helping to bring Indigenous languages back from the brink

Smokehouse

I WAS STANDING THERE at the corner, the corner where the smaller street intersects with the slightly wider one.

How Could They Just Lose Him?

The Huronia Regional Centre was supposed to be a safe home for people with disabilities. Then, amid suspicions of abuse at the facility, twenty-one-year-old Robin Windross vanished without a trace

Prairie Radical

How conspiracy theorists splintered a small town

Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe

Scott Moe rose quietly through the ranks. Now the Saskatchewan premier and his party are shaping policies with national consequences

The Accommodation Problem

Extensions. Extra exam time. Online everything. Addressing the complex needs of students is creating chaos on campus

MY GUILTY PLEASURE

I WAS AS SURPRISED as anyone when I became obsessed with comics again last year, at the advanced age of forty-five. As a kid, I loved reading G.I. Joe and The Amazing Spider-Man.

The Upside-Down Book

In her new novel, Rachel Cusk makes the case for becoming a stranger to yourself

Pick a Colour

BACK HERE, I can hear a group of women trickle in. Filling the floor with giggles and voices.

Quebec's Crushing Immigration Policy

Familial separation can have devastating consequences on mental health and productivity

The Briefcase

What I learned about being a writer from trying to finish a dead man's book

In the Footsteps of Migrants Who Never Made It

Thousands have died trying to cross into the US from Mexico. Each year, activists follow their harrowing trek

Blood Language

Menstruation ties us to the land in ways we've all but forgotten

Invisible Lives

Without immigration status, Canada's undocumented youth stay in the shadows

My Guilty Pleasure

"The late nights are mine alone, and I'll spend them however I damn well please"

Vaclav Smil Is Fed Up

The acclaimed environmental scientist is criticizing climate activists, shunning media, and stepping back just when we need him most

It's Time for a Birth Control Revolution

What the pill teaches us about the failure - and future - of women's health care

Would You Watch a Play about Hydro Electricity?

How documentary theatre struck a chord in Quebec

Still Spinning

One record chain has bet big on a new appetite for physical media

Just So You Know, I Love My Mother

In many ways, multi-generational living makes sense. But that doesn't make it easy

Art of the Steal

Why are plundered African artifacts still in Western museums?

Canada in the Middle

What role can we play in easing the war in Gaza?

Canadian Multiculturalism: A Work in Progress

As we mark fifty years since the adoption of Canada’s federal multiculturalism policy, human rights advocate AMIRA ELGHAWABY celebrates its merits and reflects on the work that is yet to be done when it comes to inclusion, acceptance, and fighting systemic racism in our country.

The Growth of Green Investing

So-called sustainable stocks increasingly speak to big business. Are they legitimate?

Multiculturalism and Reconciliation

Métis writer and activist DANIELLE PARADIS examines Canada’s multicultural policy through a modern Indigenous lens.

Ask a Supply Chain Expert

Are product shortages our new normal?

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