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Reports of ‘AI psychosis’ are emerging — here’s what a psychiatric clinician has to say

Reports of ‘AI psychosis’ are emerging — here’s what a psychiatric clinician has to say

Artificial intelligence is increasingly woven into everyday life, from chatbots that offer companionship to algorithms that shape what we see...

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Alexandre Hudon

Heated Rivalry scores for queer visibility — but also exposes the limits of representation

Heated Rivalry scores for queer visibility — but also exposes the limits of representation

Heated Rivalry , the Bell Media-produced Canadian gay hockey romance based on the novel by Rachel Reid, has taken the world by storm. The series...

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Adam Davies

Ontario’s proposed nuclear waste repository poses millennia-long ethical questions

Ontario’s proposed nuclear waste repository poses millennia-long ethical questions

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the Bruce Nuclear Generating...

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Maxime Polleri

AI disruptions reveal the folly of clinging to an idealized modern university

AI disruptions reveal the folly of clinging to an idealized modern university

In the past five years, higher education has been in a seemingly endless state of disruption. In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a...

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Dani Dilkes

Canada at war with Russia? Why the debate has shifted from ‘if’ to ‘when’

Canada at war with Russia? Why the debate has shifted from ‘if’ to ‘when’

In the fog-softened half light of the morning of Oct. 14, 2023, security cameras along Finland’s eastern border with Russia captured dozens of...

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Brian Mcquinn

Why Canada’s reaction to the Grok scandal is so muted in the midst of a global outcry

Why Canada’s reaction to the Grok scandal is so muted in the midst of a global outcry

A global backlash is brewing against Grok, the AI chatbot owned by Elon Musk and embedded into the social media platform X, after recent reports...

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Eric Van Rythoven

Grok fallout: Tech giants must be held accountable for technology-assisted gender-based violence

Grok fallout: Tech giants must be held accountable for technology-assisted gender-based violence

The new image and video editing feature for xAI’s chatbot, Grok, has generated thousands of non-consensual, sexually explicit images of women and...

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Kyara Liu

How street vendors and waste pickers can help cities manage growth

How street vendors and waste pickers can help cities manage growth

The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact recently renewed global commitments to sustainable and equitable urban food systems. The pact has been signed by...

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Gisèle Yasmeen

Why the burden of leadership is really about managing relationships

Why the burden of leadership is really about managing relationships

Management is often painted as a discipline of strategy, efficiency and resource allocation. Leadership, in this view, is largely about positioning...

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Julian Barling

Protests in Iran: ‘Whatever happens, the situation will be explosive’

Protests in Iran: ‘Whatever happens, the situation will be explosive’

Iran has been rocked by unprecedented unrest since late December. Protesters from all regions and social classes have taken to the streets to...

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Francesco Cavatorta

What our love of Heated Rivalry tells us about the state of queer sports in Canada

What our love of Heated Rivalry tells us about the state of queer sports in Canada

The Canadian TV show Heated Rivalry recently went viral and garnered a worldwide audience far beyond its domestic market. Based on the popular...

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Kyle Rich

Slanguage: How ‘6-7 ’ makes sense even though it means nothing

Slanguage: How ‘6-7 ’ makes sense even though it means nothing

The expression “6-7” spread like wildfire last year, making its way outside the realm of usual adolescent slang and into the collective discourse,...

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Nicole Rosen

The Colombian border is one of the biggest obstacles to building a new Venezuela

The Colombian border is one of the biggest obstacles to building a new Venezuela

Since American forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, plunging the country into uncertainty, there have been hopes for a transition...

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Sally Sharif

How hands-on textile work inspires creativity and growth

How hands-on textile work inspires creativity and growth

Seated on the stone floor of a medieval fortress in Italy’s Tuscan hills, students rip thin, one-inch strips of fabric. They then knot the strips...

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Tanya White

Why Donald Trump is telling such obvious lies on the ICE Minneapolis killing

Why Donald Trump is telling such obvious lies on the ICE Minneapolis killing

By now, many of us have probably seen the video of a Minneapolis woman whose last words were a calm “It’s fine, dude; I’m not mad at you,”...

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Jennifer Saul

A Man on the Inside: Netflix comedy offers a timely defence of higher education

A Man on the Inside: Netflix comedy offers a timely defence of higher education

Season 2 of Netflix’s A Man on the Inside finds Charles Nieuwendyk, private investigator and retired engineering professor (played by Ted Danson),...

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Barbara K Seeber

What Mark Carney’s China trip could mean for the future of Canadian-Chinese relations

What Mark Carney’s China trip could mean for the future of Canadian-Chinese relations

It has been more than three years since China’s Xi Jinping told Canada’s Justin Trudeau to “create the conditions first” before the two countries...

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Ye Xue

Lessons from Palestine: Understanding the resistance of educators and students in times of crisis

Lessons from Palestine: Understanding the resistance of educators and students in times of crisis

Many educators and students living through war and displacement carry difficult emotions into classrooms, but they can also transform them into...

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Emmanuelle Khoury

Why America hasn’t become great again

Why America hasn’t become great again

United States President Donald Trump and his MAGA base are often portrayed as a break from past political norms. While that is certainly true, it...

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Robert Chernomas

Cyclone Senyar: Why hazards continue to turn into disasters in Indonesia

Cyclone Senyar: Why hazards continue to turn into disasters in Indonesia

Weeks after Cyclone Senyar made landfall in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, the province of Aceh continues to struggle. The cyclone passed through the...

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Lisa Hiwasaki

‘Heated Rivalry’ shows how queer joy can disrupt hockey’s culture of masculinity

‘Heated Rivalry’ shows how queer joy can disrupt hockey’s culture of masculinity

The reason people are so captivated by Heated Rivalry , the new Crave romance adapted from Rachel Reid’s popular novel, isn’t just because the...

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Jj Wright

Cyclone Senyar: Why hazards continue to turn into disasters in Aceh

Cyclone Senyar: Why hazards continue to turn into disasters in Aceh

Weeks after Cyclone Senyar made landfall in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, the province of Aceh continues to struggle. The cyclone passed through the...

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Lisa Hiwasaki

4 ways to empower students to spark social change

4 ways to empower students to spark social change

College students in the humanities and social sciences are constantly learning about the world’s biggest problems — from inequality, wars, forced...

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Oral Robinson