Who Could Have Seen This Coming?

All over America, blue cities are facing a severe shortage of police officers.

Public Must Pay For Gender-Affirmation Surgeries Abroad, Says Ontario Review Board

If there are guardrails on Ontario’s coverage for niche genital surgeries, they are very low.

Justin Trudeau Mocked over Support of ‘2SLGBTQI+’ Canadians

Condemning ‘biphobia.’

Gender Ideology in the Classroom

Here’s the problem.

 

For First Time, Crows Have Been Found To Use Statistical Inference To Make Decisions

Not such a bird brain after all.

Charles Darwin

The best scientist-writer of all time.

Restoring Arthur Erickson’s Most Influential Home

The house is on a tiny street off West Vancouver’s Marine Drive, provides barely 2,000 square feet of living space including but one bedroom, was constructed for $30,000 on a $9,000 lot for a client on a modest salary as an art school instructor, and has rarely been visited by anyone outside of Vancouver’s tight visual arts community.

What Is Narcissism?

Science confronts a widely misunderstood phenomenon.

Canada Releases its First Accredited Assisted Suicide Training Curriculum

Expanding the culture of death.

Leonard Cohen and the Art of Stillness

Pico Iyer on what the monastic musician taught him about presence.

Leonard Cohen

On creativity, work ethic, and why you should never quit before you know what it is you’re quitting.

Quantum Poetics

How Borges and Heisenberg converged on the notion that language both enables and interferes with our grasp of reality.

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni to UN

Open borders hypocrites making migrant traffickers ‘rich beyond measure.’

You Are a Wonder, You Are a Nobody, You Are an Ever-Drifting Ship

Melville on the mystery of what makes us who we are.

The Woman on the Line

Every day, the calls come. She can tell quickly who might die.

America’s Sanctuary Cities Are Falling Apart

Places like New York are struggling to deal with an influx of migrants.

Can You Conquer Death By Depicting Your Life on Paper?

Colonialism, curiosity, and the weight of all-consuming passion.

The Japanese Ghost Town Buried Deep in a Canadian Forest

Archaeologists have dug up sake bottles and delicate rice bowls.

What Would Failure Look Like?

The New Yorker sees a homelessness program rife with drugs and crime as hugely successful.

The Day Hermann Hesse Discovered the Meaning of Life

In a tree.

The Journalist and the Billionaire

What did an old establishment guy like Walter Isaacson learn writing Elon Musk’s biography?

Purple Haze

Cannabis returns to Kathmandu.

At 14, Marcos Was Maimed While Working The Overnight Cleaning Shift

At a Perdue slaughterhouse in rural Virginia.

Bees Can’t Find Food in Dirty Air

That means humans could go hungry, too.

Australian National University Researchers

Find ‘master sculptor’ in drumming palm cockatoo.

Japanese City To Use Robots To Tackle Rising School Truancy

Robots will let students attend class and talk with classmates virtually as truancy rates surge due to bullying and post-COVID anxiety.

What Would Failure Look Like?

The New Yorker sees a homelessness program rife with drugs and crime as hugely successful.

The Day Hermann Hesse

Discovered the meaning of life in a tree.

Spirits of the Age

Here is a small picture—a vignette, a detail in life’s rich tapestry.

The Unbearable Tightness of Being

Justin Trudeau.

The Loss of Dark Skies Is So Painful

Astronomers coined a new term for it. Noctalgia.

Henry Beston

On happiness, simplicity, and the sacredness of smallness.

Fernando Pessoa

His unselving.

Popular Board Game Doubles Down

On using AI art - here’s why people are upset.

They Can Afford Gas, But Not Rent

Why these Torontonians are living in RVs.

Astonishing Scenes From Justin Trudeau’s Flailing Liberals

Pierre Poilievre understands that behind all those shocking Canadian housing statistics there are real, live and very worried human beings.

The Solace

Of open spaces.

Iris Murdoch on the Myth of Closure

And the beautiful, maddening blind spots of our self-knowledge.

Who Deserves to Eat at Noma?

18 meticulous plates of food, with a few lingering questions to wash it all down.

Get a Rabbit

We might want to be somewhere else, but we are where we are.

Pierre Poilievre‘s Convention Speech

A true plan to fix Canada.

Empty Shelves, Desolate Minds

Canada’s ‘equity book-weeding.’

Inside South Africa‘s Hijacked Buildings

Rising rates of extreme poverty have driven the homeless to occupy unsafe properties across Johannesburg.