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.

Nine days from Victorian election, a new poll gives Labor a modest lead; US Republicans win House

By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne

Latest polls show a narrowing lead for the ALP in the Victorian election, while the upper house voting system continues to attract criticism.

Read complete article

~	Greece's Asylum Suspension Denies Rights, Puts Lives at Risk

~	From Madımak’s ashes to LeMan magazine, new fronts in Turkey’s culture wars

~	Why drones and AI can’t quickly find missing flood victims, yet

~	The government wants local authorities to embrace AI – here’s one way it could work in practice

~	What is astigmatism? Why does it make my vision blurry? And how did I get it?

~	From Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Ronnie Yoshiko Fujiyama: how electric guitarists challenge expectations of gender

~	How do we understand life on Earth? An 18th-century rivalry charts the tension between two types of science ‘genius’

~	The secret stories of trees are written in the knots and swirls of your floorboards. An expert explains how to read them

~	Tasmania is limping towards an election nobody wants. Here’s the state of play

~	Russia: Proposed amendments to counter-extremism laws escalate assault on dissent