Category: op ed

April 14, 2020

Quarantined? Learn to code!

Snacks, time, and the internet. Everything you need to learn to program (Resources at bottom of article) This article is also available on medium. I spent many of my formative years in a small oil camp on the island of Sumatra — the big rocket-shaped island in the Indonesian archipelago. That’s where I first learned to program computers. There wasn’t anyone there my...

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April 9, 2020

Canadians’ united response to COVID-19 makes a difference

Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic stands in marked contrast to that of the United States, and the crisis seems to be helping to unite Canadians like no other event in years. The Media Ecosystem Observatory recently launched a research project, surveying 2,500 Canadians between March 25 and 31. When we analyze the data, we find no differences across partisan lines in...

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