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Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are now able to create text, speech, art and video as well as people can. We need to know who made what. (Illustration by Pete Ryan) Valérie Pisano is the president and CEO of Mila, a non-profit artificial intelligence research institute based in Montreal. It used to be fairly easy to tell when…
“You shouldn’t have to choose between paying rent or eating dinner, but that’s the choice we face” (Photography by Claudine Baltazar) In 1975, at the age of 21, I moved from California to North York. My parents had grown up in Toronto and wanted me to experience the city too. I took some advertising and business…
(Photography by Stephanie Foden) I’m a commercial photographer based in Disraeli, a small town in Quebec. In 2020, I drove my Ford F150 pick-up from Quebec to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to shoot some resorts for a client—a 5,000-kilometre, seven-day drive. My wife and three kids flew down to meet me there for vacation. When COVID struck…
(Photography by Carey Shaw) I’ve always been a farmer. I grew up steps away from where I live now, near the village of Fillmore in southeastern Saskatchewan. My grandparents acquired a 640-acre property in 1956, and I helped harvest crops and raise livestock on those fields. I didn’t spend days off from school sitting on…
Canada is a leader in green energy. I hope more immigrants will come to help realize our goals. “This country has so many natural wonders we need to protect.” (Illustration by Victor Kerlow) I send my mother so many videos of the snow in Canada. I never saw it back home in Pakistan, where even…
For the past 20 years, I’ve been a public bus driver in Ottawa. I’ve seen a lot of change during that time: new highrises in the downtown core, big-box stores dotting the suburbs, rail transit emerging above and below ground. To me, though, the biggest change has been the rise of sports betting ads. Ever…
(Photography by Erin Leydon) Jay Baruchel is everywhere: in slashers, sex farces and sports movies; opposite mythical lizards in Disney’s How to Train Your Dragon franchise; and he’s worked with directors as varied as David Cronenberg, Judd Apatow and even himself. If you’re wondering how an Ottawa-born, Montreal-raised kid with a Gumby body and a…
“This kind of horror stays with you” “You hear about Islamophobia on the news, but seeing that hate in your own community shakes you” (photography by Brett Gundlock) Ramadan, the month of fasting for Muslims that ended in late April, is a time of community. Families gather to break fast together, and the mosque is…
(Photograph by Stephanie Foden) I’m an associate professor at the University of Montreal and a psychiatrist and bioethics researcher at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal. I’ve been involved in conversations about medical assistance in dying since 2015, when Quebec’s Act Respecting End-of-Life Care came into force. That act legalized MAID for adults with…
“You can never be sad or mad when you’re dancing” (Illustration by Lauren Tamaki) In my senior year of high school in my hometown of Quito, Ecuador, I fell in love with computer science. It was like a puzzle. For each assignment, I had to look at the different pieces and use my creativity to…