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Mark Lynas on GMOs, science denialism, evidence-based policy, and saving the planet
January 2013, amid a chorus of controversy, Mark Lynas—high profile environmental writer, activist, and researcher—publicly renounced and apologized for his anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) position, at the Oxford Farming Conference. Though Lynas reversed...
Scientific breakthrough on fart-blame transferral methods
HUMOUR—A new ground-breaking study from the Canadian Research Alliance Project shows that those who smell gas in a social setting are, in fact, responsible for its onset. The study reports that in 94 per cent of cases, whoever smelled it dealt it, while whoever did...
Rethinking Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau is an affable politician whose idealism—which is barely containable at times—is increasingly tempered by a self-conscious pragmatism. Is he a leader though? Whether Trudeau lacks substance—a favourite topic of the Canadian media—is moot and relative....
The bewildering Mr. Harper
There’s a moment in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln in which Thaddeus Stevens, played by Tommy Lee Jones, asks his flustered staff, “Hasn’t he [Abraham Lincoln] surprised you?” In many ways, Prime Minister Stephen Harper exhibits a similar quiet unpredictability. For...Our Digital Print Issue
