Court rejects Ottawa’s attempt to quash lawsuit challenging Governor General’s appointment

Court rejects Ottawa’s attempt to quash lawsuit challenging Governor General’s appointment

The Quebec Superior Court has ruled that a lawsuit seeking to overturn Governor General Mary Simon’s appointment can move forward and be heard on its merits. Justice Marie-Hélène Dubé dismissed an application by the attorney general of Canada to have the case thrown out, giving the plaintiffs — two Quebec language rights groups — their second win in … Read more

Western University reconsiders ties with Nobel laureate-writer Alice Munro after daughter’s disclosure

Western University reconsiders ties with Nobel laureate-writer Alice Munro after daughter’s disclosure

Western University on Friday took a step toward reconsidering its relationship with acclaimed local writer and Nobel laureate Alice Munro, announcing it has decided to pause a research chair created in her honour. The move by the London, Ont., school comes in the wake of recent revelations that Munro chose to remain married to her second husband … Read more

4 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting My Own Business

4 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting My Own Business

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. No matter how gifted or driven you are, starting a business is hard, taxing work. In 2021, I left my 21-year career in finance and became a success coach, leadership consultant and author. I’d heard the statistic that 90% of all small businesses fail, but I thought … Read more

Bill Gates Once ‘Didn’t Believe In Vacations’ And He Regrets It

Bill Gates Once ‘Didn’t Believe In Vacations’ And He Regrets It

The computer software company Microsoft was founded by childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, at a time when the majority of Americans were using typewriters. When Microsoft went public in 1986, Gates became the world’s youngest billionaire at the age of 31. However, Gates seldom took a vacation to establish … Read more

Math lessons from deepfakes of Drake, other celebrities on TikTok raise concerns about misinformation

Math lessons from deepfakes of Drake, other celebrities on TikTok raise concerns about misinformation

Sisters Leanne and Natasha Manikavasagar are no strangers to seeing AI-generated content on TikTok. But an AI-generated deepfake video of Drake teaching trigonometry took them by surprise. “I was shocked,” said Natasha, a Grade 9 student in Brampton Ont.  “Drake looked kind of weird, like his mouth did not match … the way he was … Read more

Guelph students among Canadian kids learning math concepts through Métis beading practices

Guelph students among Canadian kids learning math concepts through Métis beading practices

An elementary school initiative that explores math concepts while incorporating Indigenous practices is making its way into classrooms across Canada. The Métis-math collaboration is part of a larger collection spearheaded by mathematics education researcher Ruth Beatty of Lakehead University in 2012. It’s called First Nations and Métis Math Voices.  “One of the main reasons we started … Read more