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Google’s Guinea-Pig City

Will Toronto turn its residents into Alphabet’s experiment? The answer has implications for cities everywhere.

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The Glaring Blind Spot of the 'Me Too' Movement

Lena Dunham’s defense of a "Girls" writer accused of sexual assault highlights how frequently allegations from women of color are dismissed.

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German coalition talks adjourned, set to continue Monday | News | DW | 04.02.2018

Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives and the Social Democrats have yet to reach a final coalition agreement. Talks are set to resume Monday morning.

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Sam Bee to Aziz Ansari: “If You Say You’re a Feminist, Then F--k Like a Feminist”

In one of her strongest monologues yet, Bee called out men who frame themselves as feminists but fail to live up to their reputations.

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Opinion | Vicky Mochama: To advocate successfully, we must advocate specifically | Metro News

As federal policy is being crafted right now around accessibility, there is one group I’d like to highlight: women with disabilities.

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Everything we know about Hillary Clinton we learned from Tracy Flick: Govani | Toronto Star

Long before this year's election, there was a funny little movie called Election.

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In support of new rental housing – torontohousingmatters

It might feel to those looking for a new apartment in Toronto that there just aren’t that many available. And there aren’t. According to…

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Henry David Thoreau, Hypocrite

Why, given its fabrications, inconsistencies, and moral myopia, do we continue to cherish “Walden”?

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We Are All Implicated in the Post-Weinstein Reckoning

As stories about abuse, assault, and complicity come flooding out, how do we think about the culprits in our lives? Including, sometimes, ourselves.

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What Sessions doesn't know about free speech on campus

While Attorney General Jeff Sessions was saying that free speech is under attack on campus, it was alive and well in my classroom and others, too, Issac Bailey says.

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In this eLesson, learn more about the protests at Yale University and the University of Missouri, and explore both sides of the free speech debate. You can also learn more about past Supreme Court cases that have ruled on the right to free speech.

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Wilfrid Laurier TA happy school apologized but wants long-term changes to protect free speech

“I’m happy they apologized but at the same time let’s acknowledge this was their only option,” Wilfrid Laurier TA Lindsay Shepherd told Global News.

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What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?

They did or said something awful, and made something great. They are monster geniuses, and I don’t know what to do about them.

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Woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual encounter when she was 14, he was 32

Alabama resident Leigh Corfman said that in 1979, when Moore was an assistant district attorney, he brought her to his home and touched her sexually. Three other women said that Moore – now a candidate for U.S. Senate -- pursued them when they were teenagers and he was in his early 30s.