Heard It Through the AI
Ilya Sutskever is building artificial intelligence that’s mastering a new skill – language Read More
The City is Her Patient
Eileen de Villa targets opioids and homelessness as Toronto’s new medical officer of health Read More
Rose Wolfe Committed to a Life of Service
The former chancellor is remembered for her wit and warmth Read More
Battling a Health Emergency
Heather Johnston helps combat AIDS in Malawi as president of Dignitas Read More
The Air Up There
Tarek Ibrahim wants to make personal flying machines a reality Read More
Is Health a Human Right?
Recent cases in international law suggest the idea is gaining momentum Read More
Where Do You Go, My Lovelies?
Fred and Norah Urquhart's lifelong quest for the hidden kingdom of the Monarch butterfly Read More
Singing It for Themselves
Erin Bardua and Maureen Batt founded an opera company that’s not highbrow or high-cost, but simply fun Read More
Championing Canadian Art
From the moment she arrived in Canada, Katerina Atanassova was drawn to the Group of Seven Read More
Duddy and Me
Ted Kotcheff made almost 20 movies during his career - but it was a pair of small films that really got critics to take notice Read More
Cry the Beloved Country
A network of Syrian expats is bringing youth abroad to study in safety Read More
Digging Deep
How many new dinosaur species can one person help find? Professor David Evans is up to eight Read More
Internet Explorer
Author Andrew Blum follows the wires behind the Web Read More
Frye’s Anatomy
U of T’s Northrop Frye conceded that other scholars were “infinitely more accurate” than he. But he claimed to have something they lacked – genius Read More
Computer Whiz
Dag Spicer talks tech at his Silicon Valley museum Read More
The 2,000-Year Info Revolution
“Computers” have assisted humans through history Read More
Marshall’s Laws
Fifty years after the publication of his most famous works, we’re still making sense of all Marshall McLuhan had to say Read More
In the Name of the Daughter
In her literary debut, lawyer Emma Ruby-Sachs wonders about the personal costs of activism Read More
Tales from a Troubadour
Justin Rutledge talks about the art of writing lyrics, working with Michael Ondaatje and surviving cat attacks Read More
The Ties That Bind
Joy Fielding explores a tangled mother-daughter relationship in her new book, Now You See Her Read More
The Aviator
Brave, dashing and touched by the spirit of adventure, Douglas McCurdy became the first person to fly an airplane out of sight of land Read More
Like a Bird
A U of T engineering student has become the first ever to fly a human-powered “ornithopter” Read More
The World According to Walt
Wingfield Lost and Found hits Toronto Read More
Crimes Against Women
Shelley Saywell explores so-called “honour killings” in her new film Read More
Learning to Let Go
In her new book, author Marni Jackson searches for the right level of involvement in her adult son's life Read More
The Social Historian
Professor Natalie Zemon Davis gives new life to history’s outsiders Read More
The Lost Left
Westerners who reject mainstream culture as “inauthentic” may, in fact, be status seekers, says Andrew Potter Read More
Mealtime Patriotism
Writer Sarah Elton argues in favour of local eating Read More
Poet in Motion
Dionne Brand releases her new collection, Ossuaries, while serving as Toronto’s poet laureate Read More
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Economist Jeff Rubin's new book contemplates life after the Oil Age Read More
Death Becomes Him
Novelist Andrew Pyper goes in for the kill Read More
Behind Enemy Lines
U of T grads John Kenneth Macalister and Frank Pickersgill trained as spies during the Second World War. An unlucky break brought their lives to a tragic end Read More