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.

Study: Most Cancers Result From Lifestyle, Not Bad Luck

“Genes are not destiny” seems to be the message from a new study looking at the relative risk of environmental factors on the development of cancer. In fact, says Yusuf Hannun, who heads the Stony Brook University Cancer Center in New York, bad genes and DNA mutations appear to play a relatively small role in whether someone develops cancer. More important, he says, are environmental exposures, such as inhaling tobacco smoke and eating red meat. "Around 70 to 90 percent of...

Read complete article

~	Albanese government to wipe $3 billion in student debt, benefitting three million people

~	The Indigenous Peoples Camp that calls for rights every April in Brazil

~	Pillay: Israel is helped by ‘powerful States’ in violation of Palestinians’ rights

~	Debates on campus safety in response to Palestine solidarity activism show we need strategies to navigate discomfort

~	El Salvador: Constitution “à la carte” could deepen human rights crisis in coming years

~	Arrest Warrant Issued for Former Central African Republic President

~	With eyes on Gaza, violations against West Bank journalists multiply

~	On World Press Freedom Day, the planet and Palestine are on the Caribbean's radar

~	Collecting live snakes in remote Amazon regions for study is no easy task – here’s how we do it

~	‘Jeremy Hunt is probably right to oppose the finance watchdog’s plans to name and shame firms under investigation’ – expert Q&A