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Christ-centred. Creative. Canadian.
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As I gather my notebooks and peruse my textbook list in preparation for university starting this week, I think back on the past few months and wonder where the summer went.
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I love the freedom summer offers. Cannonballs into the lake with friends. Gelato on Main Street with my parents. Walking barefoot on warm pavement as the day wanes.
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Golden hour in the Okanagan.
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Late evenings watching movies will turn into middle-of-the night essay-writing. Shorts and tanks will be swapped for jeans and sweaters.
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I tape photos from the summer on my wall and miss the heat-soaked days of July. But I'm ready for autumn.
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Make sure to savour the last dregs of summer!
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CANADA'S LIE DETECTOR
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Molly Thomas from TVO’s Big [If True] is leading the fight against misinformation.
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John Longhurst
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Thomas: The show focuses on misinformation, disinformation, conspiracies, hoaxes and scams. Our goal is to reach 20 to 35-year-olds. I asked a 19-year-old recently, “If you’re getting your news from TikTok, how do you check if what that person is saying is true?” And she said, “Well, I just find other TikTokers.” That’s the world we’re living in. In a world of algorithm-based content that thrives on getting people emotionally charged, spreading false news and spreading information that will make them upset, my show aims to be contextual and fact-based.
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'WE ARE NOT POWERLESS'
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A mom takes on the almighty algorithm.
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Carolyn Wadsworth
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We must find a way to live with social media algorithms, but we are not powerless. Through a profound path of trial and error, serious debrief with my therapist and healthy self-reflection, I have learned some strategies that help. I am striving to set up better boundaries on social media to prevent this soulless machine from taking over my thoughts, feelings and priorities. I think the most important strategy, more critical than anything else, is to remember that these systems aren’t neutral or altruistic.
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THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION IS A SPIRITUAL CRISIS
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Ron Rupke
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For Kingsnorth, the digital revolution represents a spiritual crisis and requires a spiritual response. The purpose of ancient Christian spiritual disciplines was “restraining the appetites, fasting from foods, sex, and other worldly passions, limiting needs and restraining desires.”
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COSMOPOLITAN KNOWLEDGE
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Matthijs Kronemeijer
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I recently discovered Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, the man behind my high school mathematics. A multitalented scholar who worked in Baghdad in the early ninth century, his work on mathematics gave us the word al-jibr – the root for algebra. Latin translators referred to him as Algoritmus, which eventually evolved into the common term algorithm.
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AS A NAME BECOMES A NOUN
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Katie Munnik
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In English, “algorithm” came to mean a set of rules that enable calculations. We apply it primarily to computer programs. An algorithm is any set of rules or instructions that help calculate an answer to a problem. Some of us see things differently. If our rules and systems prohibit different ways of seeing, we are poorer for it and our world view grows smaller.
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DATA CENTRES THAT I TRUST
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Alex Dawson
Libraries / librarians / books /
teachers / moms / grandmas /
scientists / laboratories / cells /
crows / forests / oceans / orcas /
research stations / kindergarten
classes / therapy sessions / your
brain / my brain / humanity
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Christian Courier features authors from across Canada, making each issue feel like a trip across the country. Subscribe to CC in print and travel Canada with us!
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