By Brian Brennan Today is Persons Day in Canada. I was reminded of this, not by a story in the Canadian media – which by now has become blasé about this annual commemoration of women’s rights – but by an opinion column
The Knight Foundation announced funding Thursday to build a free, open-source tool to help newsrooms “turn comments into community,” in partnership with the New York Times, Washington Post, and non-profit Mozilla. This might matter far beyond news organizations. Townhalls are vital to democracy
Congratulations to F&O founding feature writer Brian Brennan, whose story Canada’s Mayor — F&O’s first original magazine feature — won Runner-up, Best Feature Article, in the 2014 Professional Writers Association of Canada Awards. Here’s what we said on our Frontlines blog to announce the piece when it was published September 30, 2013: When river
Quebec lawmakers voted in favour Thursday of allowing doctor-assisted suicide for terminally-ill patients. Canada’s federal government has previously said it would legally challenge the provision in the province’s Quebec’s law, “respecting end-of-life care” that, for the first time in Canada, would legally allow doctors to
The science journal Nature released an extraordinary video this week. It’s of a computer model called Illustris, which aims to show the creation of the universe. An excerpt of the Nature report: “Mark Vogelsberger, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For Canadian journalist Cheryl Hawkes, Rubin (Hurricane) Carter’s death over Easter brought back memories about the quiet, private and powerful man who was, for a while, her neighbour in Toronto. You will find her column in our Loose Leaf salon — along
A cosmic finding: astronomers have discovered Kepler-186f, which NASA calls “the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone … (it) confirms that Earth-size planets exist in the habitable zones of other stars and signals a significant
Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez died today, age 87, in Mexico City. Born and raised in Aracataca, Colombia, he set out to become a lawyer, veered into journalism, and went on to become one of the world’s most prolific creators of literary
A full eclipse of the moon will occur overnight, visible in the Western hemisphere for three hours from late Monday April 14 (in western time zones) and early Tuesday April 15 (in the east). The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has launched a campaign to persuade people to divest themselves of holdings in the fossil fuel industry and, specifically, to stop construction of the Keystone pipeline from Canada’s oil sands through the United States to the Gulf of
Jesse Winchester died today at his home in Virginia, age 69. He had reportedly been suffering from cancer. He is best known as a singer-songwriter from the United States but — like many Canadians — I think of him as a Draft