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Illustration of a computer monitor. There are circles in the monitor and out of one of them is a purple hand reaching out to another hand on the bottom right of the screen.

The AI revolution is here. Can we harness it for good?

Some are embracing its immense potential, but one of the 'godfathers of AI' is worried about the 'existential risk' it poses

Editor Jocelyn Bell sits and poses with a smile. She is a white woman with short reddish hair above her shoulders. She is wearing a purple short-sleeved shirt and her left arm is propped up on the backrest of the chair she is sitting on.

AI is a powerful tool. What does it mean for journalism?

by Jocelyn Bell

Here's how we're approaching artificial intelligence at Broadview

A Finnish teacher teaches a group of students. The teacher is wearing black-framed glasses and has a bowl cut with short brown hair and bangs. She is wearing a paisley button-up shirt and pointing at a book. Next to her is a blond boy with black-framed glasses, wearing a grey sweatshirt. Next to him is a brown-skinned girl with shoulder-length brown hair and wearing a purple headband. She has on a white t-shirt and is holding up a mobile phone with an image of an acorn. Beside her is a brown-skinned girl with long brown hair. She is wearing a white shirt and looking at the book.

Why Finland is leading the way in fighting fake news

by Steve Moore

Finnish youths are taught from a young age how to discern fact from fiction. What would it take for Canada to do

Colourful illustration of various people. From left to right, there is a Black woman in a colourful dress and necklace holding a megaphone. Next to her is a white man in a brown suit, vest and brown bowtie holding a thermometer. He has grey hair and a grey mustache. Next to him is a brown woman with brown hair tied back, glasses, in a green button-up shirt and white lab coat. She is holding a book that says 1.5 degree celcius report. Next to her is a young girl with brown hair and glasses holding up a sign that says There is No Planet B on top of an image of the earth on fire. Behind the girl is a white man in safety goggles, white hard hat and orange safety vest. Beside him is a white woman hiker in a striped white and pink shirt with a yellow backpack and blue jeans. She is pointing at something and talking to a brown man with a beard. He has an orange and green trucker hat on and in a grey shirt and orange shorts. In the background are money bills floating around, an airplane flying in the sky, a white bird, green leaves, an ant, flowers.On the bottom of the image is an oil refinery, an orange dump truck, a polar bear floating on an small ice glacier, a cow on top of a floating house in a flood, and several cars parked on a street. There are also wind turbines and chimneys emitting grey smoke.

We’re halfway through a 12-year deadline to keep Earth habitable. Can we get there?

by Lesley Evans Ogden

The groundbreaking 1.5 report warned that a failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 would result in disastrous consequences. We're way

Two Arab women are sitting on a couch talking with one another. One of them curly brown hair, is wearing a gold necklace and red dress and black tights is speaking, using her hands. The other woman is wearing a pink, grey, white and blue hijab, in a blue jean jacket and black dress is sitting next to her listening and smiling.

Home Away from Home

by Madeline Liao

Arab Canadian women share laughter and meaningful conversation in candid new documentary

More United Church clergy are feeling targeted by congregational bullies

by Christopher White

"This minister says he now expects to be bullied wherever he goes," writes Christopher White

How Easter makes me rethink the Church’s role in justice

by Carmen Lansdowne

It's a time for radically inclusive discipleship, writes United Church Moderator Rt. Rev. Carmen Lansdowne

Faith communities can offer a way out of collective apathy

by Aaron Miechkota

"One of the greatest spiritual strengths of faith communities is our willingness to respond to God’s call to slow down," writes Aaron

This Manitoba city proved that universal basic income changes lives – so why isn’t available for all Canadians?

by Alexandra Shimo

Cheques from the government helped Dauphin residents push themselves out of poverty

Why does modern medicine know less about the female body?

by Alanna Mitchell

Cat Bohannon's new book shares what gender gaps in medical trials have ignored

Society - Page 9

The AI revolution is here. Can we harness it for good?

AI is a powerful tool. What does it mean for journalism?

Why Finland is leading the way in fighting fake news

We’re halfway through a 12-year deadline to keep Earth habitable. Can we get there?

Home Away from Home

More United Church clergy are feeling targeted by congregational bullies

How Easter makes me rethink the Church’s role in justice

Faith communities can offer a way out of collective apathy

This Manitoba city proved that universal basic income changes lives – so why isn’t available for all Canadians?

Why does modern medicine know less about the female body?

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