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
New work on Facts and Opinions – and selected reading and viewing from elsewhere in the week past: This week Facts and Opinions welcomed aboard Jim McNiven with his new regular column, Thoughtlines, in Commentary. In his inaugural column, Bill, Shane
With a nod to our own house of glass, I’m laughing out loud at the list of best and worst media errors and corrections of 2013, by Craig Silverman at the Poynter Institute. The outrageous ones will give you a giggle: the
Facts and Opinions is pleased to welcome aboard Jim McNiven and to introduce his new regular column, Thoughtlines, in Commentary. In his inaugural column, Bill, Shane and Jim, McNiven tells the tale of three men who changed the modern world, from the baseball
Serendipity on the Internet: ease into the weekend with “Bird Ballet,” a gift of sound and movement by Neels Castillon, a young filmmaker in France who filmed this murmeration of starlings near Marseille. A bird ballet from Neels CASTILLON on Vimeo.
Journalist and television writer David Simon delivered a speech to the Festival of Dangerous Ideas that was every bit as scorching as his incendiary television series The Wire. “I come from a country that is utterly schizophrenic, he said of the United
A snapshot this week from the surveillance beat: Writers of the world call for end to mass online surveillance Five Nobel literature laureates are among 560 international writers who today have put their names to an appeal, “A stand for democracy in
Facts and Opinions introduces Expert Witness, a series of occasional works by experts in their areas, in our Think section of analysis and commentary. Expert Witness will publish eclectic essays, papers and occasionally even works from the past that strike our interests.
That didn’t take long: artists have surged into the wake left by whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden, whose revelations of America’s massive surveillance program roiled the murky waters of international politics. An art show in Munich last month, Big Data Art 2013, interprets
Cue the shrieks of climate-change deniers: several British climate scientists have entered the fantasy realm. In their spare time, using supercomputers of the Advanced Centre for Research Computing at the University of Bristol in England, a group of scientists explored lands usually
A snapshot of the police beat this week in Toronto, Canada’s biggest city and its national centre of commerce: The Day the Rob Ford Story Stopped Being Funny “If this guy isn’t in jail, why bother having police at all? Why not