Disinformation, misinformation are the new energy battlegrounds
Reading Time: 4 minutes But what happens when disinformation campaigns run headlong into reality?
Why don’t Canadian broadcasters love the beautiful game?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Being a true football fan in Canada has been a pretty lonely existence
Truth, lies and the insidious rise of “misinformation”
Reading Time: 4 minutes Political debate has become sanctimonious lecturing, with one side refusing to accept even the possibility that…
Strange weather and the words we use to describe it
Reading Time: 3 minutes Thousands of words describe weather. Some arise from folklore, some carry historical inferences and others are…
Time to combat the COVID-19 narrative of fear
Reading Time: 4 minutes What we need is well-informed, critical and rational thought, combined with a healthy skepticism of politicians…
To protect democracy, we must protect local media
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our 21st-century reliance on tech giants to supply us with information has resulted in fake news,…
Just the facts? Don’t count on fact-checkers
Reading Time: 4 minutes A closer look at almost every fact-checking organization shows a great deal of politics and vested…