Director / Editor: Victor Teboul, Ph.D.

Looking inside ourselves and out at the world
Independent and neutral with regard to all political and religious orientations, Tolerance.ca® aims to promote awareness of the major democratic principles on which tolerance is based.

China - Four years in prison for cyber-dissident Xu Zhiyong

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores the four-year jail sentence that Beijing Intermediate Court No. 1 imposed on the cyber-dissident Xu Zhiyong on 26 January on a charge of “gathering a crowd to disturb public order.” He got just one year less than the maximum of five years. “We condemn both the harshness of the sentence and the way the trial was conducted,” said Benjamin Ismail, the head of the Reporters Without Borders Asia-Pacific desk. “The judicial authorities flouted many procedural (...)

Read complete article

~	Rugby league in Perth and Papua New Guinea? Here’s what could be next for the NRL

~	Threatened species have declined 2% a year since 2000. Nature positive? Far from it.

~	Tunisia: Deepening Civil Society Crackdown

~	Bridgerton is a progressive fantasy about the past. Do romance readers care about its historical accuracy?

~	Want to be buried on your own land, at sea or in a forest? A guide to unconventional send-offs

~	Homo Pentecostus: on queer intimacies, religion, ancestry and the human need for connection

~	After 180 years, new clues are revealing just how general anaesthesia works in the brain

~	Nuclear subs are coming to Australia. Now the Coalition wants reactors, too. We’re not ready for it

~	Menopause can bring increased cholesterol levels and other heart risks. Here’s why and what to do about it

~	Cameras reveal wombat burrows can be safe havens after fire and waterholes after rain