Are you a Fitbit bore?
From 2015: Fitness-tracker ethos has created a social media villain
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Sah-ry, eh? We’re in the midst of the Canadian Vowel Shift
The old vowels are ’oot’: Canadians are changing how we speak, though none of us are noticing. Linguists might know why.
In the Klondike, a gold rush becomes an old rush
From 2015: Discoveries of gold and ancient fossils go hand in hand in the Yukon. But the mammoth tusk trade has a dark side.
A better future for farming
Author and former Wall Street banker Sonia Faruqi investigated corporate greed and cruel practices on farms
Are we on the cusp of a revolution in how we understand the brain?
Two new studies suggest a potential game-changer in how scientists understand of the brain, which could advance research on MS and Alzheimer’s
Star Wars sucks. There, we said it.
From 2015: ’Star Wars’ was once lambasted. Now, criticizing it mildly draws vitriol. How did a flawed sci-fi flick become an unassailable cultural force?
The plant that’s eating B.C.
Japanese knotweed is in nearly all our provinces. And the threat is real: it can lower house prices, threaten our bridges, and drive men to madness.
The Toronto anaesthesiologist who’s big in Japan
How a soft-spoken Canadian became the champion of a little-known genre—and the rock star he always wanted to be
These cars drive themselves! (Minus the ’drive themselves’ bit.)
Scott Feschuk is bemused about the future of driving: So we get all the responsibility of driving, and none of the fun?
After 150 years, Alice in Wonderland remains a shape-shifting tale about how we see childhood
From 2015: Alice’s story is still a work in progress, "a blank screen onto which we project all we want to throw at her.”