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Dyer: Not a bad time for Trumpian assault on constitutional order

Dyer: Not a bad time for Trumpian assault on constitutional order

About 30 years ago, during an interview with a professor at the University of Michigan, he said human behaviours really had not changed during the...

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Gwynne Dyer

Baranyai: Menopause deserves to be talked about, researched, celebrated

Baranyai: Menopause deserves to be talked about, researched, celebrated

In the place I live, there’s a theatre that makes small-town life feel bigger somehow. It’s a cinema, concert venue and stage for live theatre. It...

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Robin Baranyai

Guppy: What Canadian baby names reveal about how we’ve changed

Guppy: What Canadian baby names reveal about how we’ve changed

Neil Guppy, University of British Columbia A given name holds the spark of identity. It is ours — we wear it — yet it is also the primary label by...

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SIMS: Irene Mathyssen leaves a legacy of advocacy in fight for social justice

SIMS: Irene Mathyssen leaves a legacy of advocacy in fight for social justice

Even during an unforgiving Ottawa snowstorm, Irene Mathyssen couldn’t be stopped from doing the people’s work. A bitter wind was whipping up the...

15.10.2026 0

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Jane Sims

Dyer: To avoid childish spats, train politicians

Dyer: To avoid childish spats, train politicians

“I would not like to call this an incident. Let’s say it’s a diplomatic misunderstanding,” said Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii...

13.10.2026 4

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Gwynne Dyer

MacEachern: Scientists predicted Nov. 13, 2026 will be doomsday. Should you be worried?

MacEachern: Scientists predicted Nov. 13, 2026 will be doomsday. Should you be worried?

Alan MacEachern, Western University In 1960, Science, one of the world’s leading science journals, published an article with an unambiguous title:...

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Baranyai: Rage will burn until men held to account

Baranyai: Rage will burn until men held to account

Here we are again. Women are burning with incandescent rage. After years of successive outrage, it is hard to believe we have enough fuel left to feed...

11.10.2026 20

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Robin Baranyai

Pearson: Four decades with a food bank an embarrassment

Pearson: Four decades with a food bank an embarrassment

My father’s generation had a word for the men who came through his neighbourhood looking for work: transients. They rode the rails from town to...

10.10.2026 20

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Glen Pearson

Mahon: Going into this one outlet was a nail-biter

Sometimes a revelation can be just at your fingertips. Literally. I recently walked into a recommended nail boutique on the north end of London and...

06.10.2026 8

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Paul Mahon

Dyer: Brazil at risk of being washed up in populist wave

“Flávio Bolsonaro is Trump’s candidate and what Trump wants is to colonize Brazil, take our riches, steal our future and leave us in the dust,”...

04.10.2026 30

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Gwynne Dyer

Baranyai: Canada is having its Othello moment

Iago is one of the great literary villains, a man who betrays every friend and ally, enriches himself through grift, drives his general mad with a...

04.10.2026 30

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Robin Baranyai

Vanderhoeven: Prediction markets are arriving in Canadian politics, like it or not

Noah Eliot Vanderhoeven, Western University Polymarket, a U.S.-based prediction-market website, is taking wagers on who will be London, Ont.’s next...

03.10.2026 30

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Noah Eliot Vanderhoeven

Charron: Canada must consider all threats, including U.S. invasion

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has considered the possibility of American military action against Canada, and that the Canadian Armed Forces had...

28.09.2026 20

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Andrea Charron

Tallman: One key unlocks the teachings of Jesus who came to call the broken

“I did not come to call the righteous but sinners” (Mark 2:17). This verse is the key which unlocks the rest of the teachings of Jesus and fits...

27.09.2026 30

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Bruce Tallman

Baranyai: AI guardrails inadequate for its roles

It didn’t take very long for the AI bloom to fall off the rose. It was a short trip from playfully tweaking photos to an avalanche of AI slop; from...

27.09.2026 20

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Robin Baranyai

Dyer: U.S. space weapons not very dangerous

When Troy Meink, the chief of the U.S. Space Force, announces, for no obvious reason, the United States “now has on-orbit space-control weapons,”...

26.09.2026 40

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Gwynne Dyer

Pearson: Laughter missing from our daily lives

There was a time when you could hear Canada laughing. And since it’s Thanksgiving, we should ask where that Canada went. It used to be woven into...

26.09.2026 40

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Glen Pearson

Lang: Why Canada is shutting down its 70‑year peacekeeping legacy

Eugene Lang, Queen’s University, Ontario “The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is rebalancing its global operational commitments to better align...

23.09.2026 40

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Stanford: Take a step this month to respond to extreme fires and floods

The first time it happened to me was in early August 2023, in Kelowna, B.C., heart of the Okanagan. A public announcement advised that people should...

23.09.2026 40

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Pearson: Canada needs more of Britons' Blitz spirit

Canada is having a moment. The world has become less predictable. Our closest ally has become an economic adversary. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s...

23.09.2026 40

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Glen Pearson

Dyer: Geo-engineering only way out of climate crisis

“El Niño is being supersized before our eyes,” said United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. “The science leaves no room for doubt:...

23.09.2026 40

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Gwynne Dyer

Baranyai: Does map size matter in geopolitics?

Jacques Cartier and John Cabot must be rolling in their graves, after back-to-school shoppers noticed Hilroy had been selling a version of its iconic...

23.09.2026 40

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Robin Baranyai

How to make a more livable London, one neighbourhood at a time

What makes a neighbourhood livable? Children safely playing in front yards and cycling to school. People of all ages and abilities at ease when...

23.09.2026 40

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Dyer: At least some trying to slow headlong AI rush

Somebody was bound to sound the alarm eventually. In this case, young British artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job at the AI...

23.09.2026 40

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Gwynne Dyer

Baranyai: Minimum wage hikes merit serious consideration

A rising tide lifts all boats, as former U.S. president John F. Kennedy was fond of saying. According to his speechwriter, the phrase was lifted from...

23.09.2026 40

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Robin Baranyai

Wilansky: Want to boost recycling rates? Pick up garbage less often

Jonathan Wilansky, Concordia University Canada produces an enormous amount of waste. In 2020, total solid waste across the country hit 36 million...

23.09.2026 30

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Dyer: Geo-engineering only way out of climate crisis

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13.09.2026 40

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Gwynne Dyer

Baranyai: Does map size matter in geopolitics?

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Robin Baranyai

Lang: Why Canada is shutting down its 70‑year peacekeeping legacy

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12.09.2026 30

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Stanford: Take a step this month to respond to extreme fires and floods

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12.09.2026 30

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Pearson: Canada needs more of Britons' Blitz spirit

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12.09.2026 40

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Glen Pearson

Dyer: Humanity is a mixed bag. Don't despair

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06.09.2026 40

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Gwynne Dyer

Baranyai: Trump's tactics getting tiresome

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06.09.2026 40

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Robin Baranyai

Barry: As Alberta votes on independence, will Trump back separation?

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05.09.2026 40

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Dyer: Elections in Ukraine, not prudent or realistic

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29.08.2026 50

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Gwynne Dyer

Baranyai: Judging women by appearance persists

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Robin Baranyai

Pearson: Here's to the quiet life

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Glen Pearson

Dyer: Climate change reality still not spurring action

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23.08.2026 50

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Gwynne Dyer

Baranyai: Jamaica-gate turns spotlight on Tory spying

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23.08.2026 50

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Robin Baranyai

Ahmed: What’s fuelling Canada's increase in outsourced violence?

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22.08.2026 40

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Tallman: Third Wave of Transformation holds great promise and peril

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22.08.2026 40

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Bruce Tallman

Dyer: AI has begat 'synthetic biology' – and the sky's the limit

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16.08.2026 50

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Gwynne Dyer

Baranyai: Will the return of measles be COVID-19's enduring legacy?

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Robin Baranyai

Pearson: Homelessness is a Queen's Park problem, not London's

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15.08.2026 50

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Glen Pearson

Gradek: Why Canadian airlines strikes shut down the whole system

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Dyer: South Africa's justice system miraculously OK

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09.08.2026 50

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Gwynne Dyer

Baranyai: Radical research transparency needed

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09.08.2026 50

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Robin Baranyai

Derevensky: New prediction markets app exposes regulatory gaps

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08.08.2026 60

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Dyer: To avoid tiresome wars, let's speculate on dictator's heiress

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02.08.2026 60

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Gwynne Dyer

Baranyai: Giller out of Gaza, into prisons

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02.08.2026 50

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Robin Baranyai