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By Hartley Jafine, McMaster University Special to Global News → Read More
When search and rescue officials were first alerted to an aircraft in trouble off the Nova Scotia coast, they began preparing for the worst. That’s how the first inkling of the unfolding disaster… → Read More
In my column last week, I wrote that we Ontario Liberals need to make this election a referendum on Doug Ford. Well, the verdict is in. According to this week’s Ipsos poll for Global News, it’s clear… → Read More
The 2018 Ontario election campaign began last week with what many consider a “gotcha” question by a member of the media to Doug Ford. By now, we all know that Ford was asked if he knew how a bill… → Read More
It may be some time before we hear the full story from the Toronto police constable who apprehended the suspect in Monday’s van attack that left 10 people dead and several others injured. But many… → Read More
As more and more people connect to the Internet every day through social media, wearable devices, cars and appliances, they are creating vast amounts of data that is being used to fuel the growth of… → Read More
Over the course of its 90 years, the Academy Awards have been a constant cultural punching bag. Too timid, too mainstream, too predictable, and too white: all of these charges have been levelled at… → Read More
The decision by an all-white jury, presided over by a white judge, to acquit the killer of Colten Boushie, a young Indigenous man from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, is a severe test… → Read More
One University of Alberta researcher says YouTube may not be the best option when it comes to children’s entertainment. Davide Brake spoke on the Alberta Morning News about how, with the introduction… → Read More
Can you imagine what the ‘Dark Philosopher’ from 500BC would make of our times where perpetual change has accelerated to dizzying speeds? In the past decade alone, technological advances have changed… → Read More
Standing in Ontario’s legislative chamber, the province’s Attorney General made history this month with the introduction of legislation to legalize recreational marijuana. Speaking to reporters… → Read More
On Oct. 12, a grey Lincoln MKZ took Ottawa’s Mayor Jim Watson for a short ride through Kanata in what was billed as the first on-street test of an autonomous vehicle in Canada. The BlackBerry QNX… → Read More
Daphne Caruana Galizia was revered on the tiny archipelago of Malta. At times, her voice seemed like the lone check against a sea of corruption and in that respect she was relentless which made her… → Read More
‘We expected cancer’: Are industrial spills in Canada’s ‘Chemical Valley’ making people sick? → Read More
Within hours, police used terms like “disturbed” and “a lone wolf” to describe the Las Vegas shooter. President Trump said the massacre was “an act of pure evil” but didn’t utter the T-word once.… → Read More
When I awoke this morning, the story blasting off my screen was about the worst mass shooting in American history. The only shooter, a 64-year-old Nevada man named Stephen Paddock, who was armed with… → Read More
Last week we held the Ipsos CanadaNext Symposium to discuss Canadians’ thoughts, worries, and opinions about the wave of change happening in the country driven by technology and demographic shifts… → Read More
WATCH ABOVE: For many TV viewers, one screen isn’t enough. It turns out 71 per cent of Canadians on Twitter use the platform while watching TV. Emily Mertz has more on the findings of research done… → Read More
I know you see me on TV standing out there in the wind, and the rain, but in reality, your concern is better placed with people who aren’t nearly as lucky as me. As reporters, we have the luxury of… → Read More
It’s been 20 years since Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a Paris tunnel following a car accident, so why are there still countless TV specials and documentaries, tributes and songs, montages and… → Read More