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.

The scariest stories to listen to this Halloween, from a horror audio expert

By Leslie McMurtry, Senior Lecturer in Radio Studies, University of Salford

The next time you watch a horror movie, try putting it on mute. More than likely, it will lose its edge and may even appear comic. As much as horror media is visual, sound plays an outsize role in its ability to terrify. This is partly an evolutionary adaptation: sound can trigger a startle response in humans within ten milliseconds – 30 times faster than the blink of an eye.

Preeminent ghost story scholar Julia Briggs argues…

Read complete article

~	Fewer journalists are training to be court reporters – that’s a problem for justice

~	I work with abuse survivors in Rotherham – the current discussion about grooming gangs risks retraumatising them

~	How the science of tiny timescales could speed up computers and improve solar cell technology

~	Nato: why the prospect of Trump 2.0 is putting such intense pressure on the western alliance

~	This class uses museums to show law students the high art of curating ideas

~	My beautiful ‘practicing’ Christians: As churchgoers’ numbers shrink, their social views grow more similar

~	Catholic cardinals play a key role in secular politics as well as the Catholic Church–and the importance of Pope Francis’ choice to head the church in DC

~	Spending, regulations and DOGE: Office of Management and Budget director plays vital role helping government get stuff done

~	Kamala Harris memes questioning her cultural background highlight Americans’ contradictions with race

~	In eyeing Greenland, Trump is echoing long-held American designs on the Arctic expanse