Why Canada Is Still Cool With Openness: Here’s What We’re Reading Today

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Here’s what we’re reading today.

1. Open season

“Canada’s openness is not new, but it is suddenly getting global attention. It is a happy contrast to what is happening in other rich countries, where anger about immigration helped bring about Britain’s vote for Brexit, Donald Trump’s nomination and the rise of populist parties across Europe. And it has an appealing new face: Justin Trudeau celebrates his first anniversary as prime minister on November 4th.”

2. Top Ontario Liberals face Election Act charges in Sudbury case

“The head of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s re-election campaign and a Liberal fundraiser are facing Elections Act charges for alleged bribery in the 2015 Sudbury byelection.

“Patricia Sorbara, until recently Wynne’s deputy chief of staff, and Sudbury funeral director Gerry Lougheed will be ‎charged by Ontario Provincial Police, the Star has learned. Police swore the information before a justice of the peace on Monday and will formally announce the charges Tuesday.”

3. The case against democracy

“If most voters are uninformed, who should make decisions about the public’s welfare?”

4. The women who love death

“Young women are more paranoid about their own demise than ever before. Enter ‘death positivity,’ a new female-driven trend aimed at turning that fear on its head.”

5. We may have found a way to cheat the second law of thermodynamics

“The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that entropy in the universe must always increase. It’s an immutable law of physics, and it’s the reason you can’t get free energy or perpetual motion machines. But a group of physicists may have found a way to break this law, at least in some specific circumstances.”