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.

Chile - Journalist denied passport over 61-year-old libel conviction

Reporters without borders

Hernán Uribe Ortega, an 88-year-old journalist with a history of political involvement and defending his colleagues, may be unable to travel to Caracas next month for the annual congress of the Latin American Journalists' Federation (FELAP), which he helped to found in 1976, because the Chilean authorities are citing a 61-year-old defamation conviction as grounds for refusing to renew his passport. "This would be nothing more than absurd if it did not violate the freedom of movement of (...)

Read complete article

~	To some ancient Romans, gladiators were the embodiment of tyranny

~	Activism on foot: When Indigenous activists walk the land to honor their past and reshape their future

~	Graduate students explore America’s polarized landscape via train in this course

~	Americans agree politics is broken − here are 5 ideas for fixing key problems

~	Vulnerability to financial scams in aging adults could be an early indicator of Alzheimer’s disease, new research shows

~	No need to overload your cranberry sauce with sugar this holiday season − a food scientist explains how to cook with fewer added sweeteners

~	Awkwardness can hit in any social situation – here are a philosopher’s 5 strategies to navigate it with grace

~	AI harm is often behind the scenes and builds over time – a legal scholar explains how the law can adapt to respond

~	Denmark’s uprooting of settled residents from ‘ghettos’ forms part of aggressive plan to assimilate nonwhite inhabitants

~	Presidents often claim mandates − especially when they want to expand their power or are on the defensive