If you’re a baseball fan, you yearn for moments like the top of the eighth inning in the sixth game of the American League Championship Series last Friday. You wait out whole seasons—multiple seasons, decades, twenty-two largely desultory years in the case of the Toronto Blue Jays—and then the…

David Payne and Karla Robison of Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue on the Hurricane 733, a rigid-hull inflatable boat.Chad Hipolito/The Globe and Mail When the MV Leviathan II set out early on Sunday afternoon for a whale-watching tour from the Tofino harbour, the water was calm. Once the…

What is frakking and will it change the face of Ingress? Will our scanners overflow with gear? Let’s find out! By now you’ve likely heard rumours of this new “frakker” thing! If not, check out our latest teardown, and an official Ingress post on the topic!But what is it exactly? Here’s what we…

Whenever a new depiction of a female superhero comes around, I'm always warily enthusiastic. We don't get a lot of mainstream screen time devoted to our comic book heroines as it is, and when we do they tend to be shoddily rendered and poorly written (Catwoman, anyone?) It's typical to see a woman…

Fashion 16 Oscars Hairstyles That Will Go Down In History The 2021 Oscars production might be different than years past, but the 93rd Academy Awards show will go on this coming Sunday, April 25th, on

(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand) On the first day of the new Parliament in 1997, Libby Davies found herself walking to the Senate to hear the Speech from the

Clayoquot Sound, home of the Nuu-chah-nulth people, is a visually stunning area on the west side of Vancouver Island; there one sees misty mountains, fiords, inlets, coastlines forested with giant trees, and islands adjacent to the Pacific Ocean. Not to mention orcas, humpback whales, bears, wolves,…

An ex-boyfriend used to tell me that in his opinion, I was capable of more than I thought I was. He would say it whenever there was something I thought I couldn’t do because of my depression or anxiety or endometriosis or whatever else. “You can handle more than you think you can.” I understood…

Culture Desk October 22, 2015 A friend calls unexpected connections with lost loved ones “winks,” and finding Google Maps photos of my mother felt like a wink of monumental proportions.Source: Google Maps Every now and again, when I’ve been working for too many hours without a break or have spent an…

Reporting from San Francisco — Slack Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Stewart Butterfield has a theory about why Albert Einstein achieved mainstream popularity while a fellow genius, Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel, didn’t. It’s the same reason he thinks his San Francisco’s company’s real-time…

Published on Let's Talk Development Shanta Devarajan June 11, 2013 This page in: English English As a student of service delivery, I was delighted to read about Sir Michael Barber’s effort to conceptualize the implementation of service delivery policies—what he calls “Deliverology”—a problem many of…

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Annals of Technology October 17, 2015 What accounts for the extraordinary wiring of the human mind?Illustration by Rebekka Dunlap Biologists often say that the most dangerous thing a cell can do is divide. This is because, during the complex process of replication—the unspooling of DNA, the…

Canadian Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau arrives at a victory rally in Ottawa on October 20, 2015. Canada is 'back' on the world stage, newly-elected prime minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday after a landslide victory that ended nearly a decade of conservative rule. 'I want to say to this…

The most arresting image of the election was made in its final moments, as the prime minister-designate made his way to the podium. He stopped to embrace a beautiful older woman. In the shot, Margaret Trudeau cradles her son's cheeks and gazes into his eyes. After all these years, she still opens…

Currency October 16, 2015 Seven years after being fired, the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is returning to the company as C.E.O.PHOTOGRAPH BY SCOTT EISEN / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY Earlier this month, Twitter announced that it was bringing back one of its co-founders, Jack Dorsey, as C.E.O., to steady…

News Desk Justin Trudeau’s Surprising Ascent October 16, 2015 Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau campaigning with former Prime Minister Paul Martin in August.photograph by Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty For nearly a decade, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has confounded many observers’…

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Ian Barrett/CP Last week a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper was released that analyzed the long-run non-cognitive impacts of Quebec’s daycare program, and almost immediately the paper became a target for critics. Here, Université Laval economist Stephen Gordon explains the paper’s…

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The Writing Life Omission Choosing what to leave out. September 7, 2015 Illustration by Tamara Shopsin At Time in the nineteen-fifties, the entry-level job for writers was a column called Miscellany. Filled with one-sentence oddities culled from newspapers and the wire services, Miscellany ran down…

An unkind cartoon this summer showed the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, kneeling before the statue of another politician, asking: “What now, O Great

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Those who envision themselves living in Santa Monica, the wealthy and politically progressive coastal enclave west of Los Angeles, no doubt envision themselves living happily there. It would seem to have everything: miles of coastline with beaches open to all, the striking Santa Monica mountains…

In the language spoken by the Dothraki on the violent and popular HBO show Game of Thrones, the word for cat is keli. Reasonable, you might think. The show is based on the books written by George R.R. Martin, surely he can come up with whatever words he likes for the animals living in a universe he…

Here's a post I wrote last night about my first two days here in Zagreb, my blog's most popular so far! http://t.co/LsNHe05hat — Steffani Cameron (@FullNomad) October 11, 2015 Tweeted by @FullNomad

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Why an NDP Victory Won't Ruin Canada's Startup Ecosystem http://t.co/RKfmtvjqKN by @YVRJason — Techvibes (@techvibes) September 29, 2015 Tweeted by @techvibes

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Uncategorized | Sep 30, 2015 30 Under 30: Kevin Nguyen, Editorial Director of Google Play Books By Molly McArdle This week marks the release of our annual 30 Under 30 issue, and because each of these individuals is so interesting, we thought we’d further highlight them by running some brief…

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