Is Canada’s space program slipping out of orbit?
Recent feel-good news masks shrinking budgets and a funding approach that researchers say discourages ’science for science’s sake’
Technology
Read the interview about Facebook the CBC refuses to publish
The public broadcaster decided not to publish an interview about Facebook with technology columnist Jesse Hirsh online, saying it didn’t meet its journalistic standards
Gary Shteyngart on why the free world is going to undemocratic hell
Shteyngart: ’All our elites suck! From the bankers to the software people to the politicians, obviously. It’s the greediest, most selfish group in the history of this country.’
Why social media has taken over your life—and you need to sign off now
Jaron Lanier says social media is turning us into highly manipulable addicts. The only solution is for users to pay—and own their own data.
Beep-boop, you’re under arrest
They’re already patrolling malls and airports. But what happens when our lives are truly in the hands of robot police officers?
How the internet may be turning us all into radicals
Online algorithms that have learned how to push our emotional buttons are polarizing society—and the emerging science on the implications is troubling
Why we should pay Canadian donors for their blood plasma donations
A new bill would ban paying for plasma donations nationwide. It’s a counterproductive idea, not to mention hypocritical
Netflix co-founder says greater change is coming even faster
Marc Randolph says innovation is just getting started
Irvine Welsh on his new ’Trainspotting’ sequel and mass shootings in America
He argues U.S. leaders do nothing about mass shootings —the subject of his next novel— to keep citizens ’in fear’
Texting people who’re driving could make you responsible if they get into a car crash
One lawyer says it’s similar to when a party host is held responsible for allowing their guest to drive home drunk