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Arts & Culture / June 2023

My Guilty Pleasure: Exploring the Fake Wilderness in The Legend of Zelda

May 12, 2023December 21, 2023 - by Michael Christie

I first played it with my sons and then, after they went to bed, alone, obsessively, deep into the night

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Politics

How to Prevent Foreign Interference in Elections

May 11, 2023May 15, 2023 - by Stephen Maher

Five foolproof ways the federal government can prevent other countries from meddling with Canadian democracy

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Media

All the Exciting Media Outlets Are Dying. What the Hell Comes Next?

May 10, 2023January 8, 2024 - by Tajja Isen

Once-giant digital outlets like BuzzFeed News and Vice are either dead or declining. The media landscape looks bleaker than ever

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Technology

Will Universal Basic Income Save Us from AI?

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 - by Colin Horgan

OpenAI’s Sam Altman believes many jobs will soon vanish but UBI will be the solution. Other visions of the future are less rosy

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A photo of King Charles during a visit to Ottawa in 2022.
Society

The Mass Indifference to King Charles III Explained

May 5, 2023May 5, 2023 - by Patricia Treble

Canada will commemorate the coronation with a one-hour event, a stamp, and funds for the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. One can hear the yawns already

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A photo of the back of a person looking at a memorial for residential school survivors made of several pairs of children’s shoes on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Society

The Dangerous Allure of Residential School Denialism

May 4, 2023January 8, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

A swelling tide of resentment is leading some settler Canadians to downplay the atrocities of the system

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Politics

Why Are Conservatives So Obsessed with the CBC?

May 3, 2023June 20, 2023 - by Tom Jokinen

Pierre Poilievre seems to be on a mission to defund the CBC. He’s not the first Tory to attack the public broadcaster

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May 2023 / Poetry

Seascape with Buoy

May 2, 2023May 1, 2023 - by Vanessa Stauffer

It layers and piles, swells and doesn’t fall. / I can’t remember anything at all.

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Sports

The World’s Oldest Ultramarathon Runner Is Racing against Death

May 1, 2023November 13, 2023 - by Brett Popplewell

Dag Aabye is eighty-one, lives in an old school bus on a mountain, and is pushing his body to its absolute limits

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Politics / Technology

AI and Politics: How Will We Know What—and Who—Is Real?

April 27, 2023October 13, 2023 - by Colin Horgan

If we’re lucky, new technologies will only cause brief confusion. If we’re not, our political sphere could be changed forever

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