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.

Nigeria’s chronic power shortages: mini grids were going to crack the problem for rural people, but they haven’t. Here’s why

By Temilade Sesan, Lecturer & Researcher, University of Ibadan

Electricity is a scarce commodity in Nigeria. With just over 4,000 megawatts supplying nearly 220 million people, the electricity access deficit stands at about 40% nationwide. The picture looks even darker in rural areas. There, 73% of the population is off the power grid.

Rural electrification is crucial to achieve Sustainable Development…

Read complete article

~	New government funding for family violence is unprecedented, but it can’t afford to wait

~	Our cities are losing the small, colourful songbirds that give us the most joy

~	Bill Shorten’s greatest legacy is the NDIS. It transformed the lives of people like me with disability

~	The government says more people need to use AI. Here’s why that’s wrong

~	Who are the greatest Paralympians of all time?

~	Is Russia’s changing nuclear doctrine a significant concern – or just another empty threat?

~	Witness 1.8 billion years of tectonic plates dance across Earth’s surface in a new animation

~	Bunyip birds and brolgas: how can we better protect species important to Indigenous people?

~	The ozone hole above Antarctica will keep opening up each spring for decades to come – here’s why that still matters

~	The New Brunswick election is a referendum on Blaine Higgs’s divisive conservatism