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Memoir / September/October 2020

How Algorithms Are Changing What We Read Online

September 8, 2020January 4, 2021 - by Russell Smith

The AI of the internet determines what’s relevant. One day, it decided my work wasn’t

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September/October 2020 / Technology

The Making of an Incel

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 - by Katherine Laidlaw

How misogyny in online forums turns into real-life violence

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Society

The Fault, Dear Reader, Is Not in Our Stars

August 12, 2020April 4, 2023 - by Carly Lewis

Mental health care is pricey and inaccessible. Online astrology is rising to take its place

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Arts & Culture

When Anne with an E Fans Waged War against Netflix

August 5, 2020October 13, 2020 - by John Semley

In their campaign to save the show, fans stopped behaving like an audience and started acting like owners

Amazon Canada First Novel Award 2020 Celebrating debut Canadian novelists since 1976 Stéphane Larue, author of The Dishwasher (Biblioasis/Biblioasis International Translation Series) is the winner of the forty-fourth annual Amazon …

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Sports

Inside Skateboarding’s New Counterculture

July 28, 2020July 29, 2020 - by Cole Nowicki

Social media has democratized skateboarding by inviting in a new audience unaware of the “rules”

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Business / September/October 2020

Is Dining Out Dead?

July 23, 2020August 21, 2020 - by Corey Mintz

Some experts predict that 60 percent of restaurants won’t survive the lockdown. Here’s what chefs, owners, and their employees are doing to stay alive