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THE CONVERSATION

Uh-Oh, Our Brains Are Showing • Mark Carney’s thunderbolt of an address in Davos continues to reverberate in Canada and around the world, and for good reason. He soberly articulated a new world order, called for middle powers to locate their spines, advocated for collective might through common interest, and sprinkled it all with just the right number of Havel and Thucydides references. Experts dissected nearly every line, yet one area that received comparatively little attention was Carney’s ode to Canadian brainpower.

Elevated Thinking • Can Toronto’s infamous money pit become its next great destination?

Running Man • In the new mockumentary Hate the Player, Shamier Anderson portrays Ben Johnson—not as a disgraced cheater but as a Scarborough boy shafted by the system

Globetrotter • This marketer moved from Delhi to Vancouver to Toronto in search of success

Beauty Spot • How the owner of a Yorkville salon found a gorgeous apartment right downtown

Urban Diplomat

Reaching a turning point in brain science • A new partnership promises a new approach to the body-brain relationship

SMART CITY • 20 MIND-BLOWING HOMEGROWN INVENTIONS THAT ARE CHANGING THE WORLD

THE HIGH PRICE OF HOPE • In clinics across Toronto, desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises. Welcome to the white-hot fertility market

IT’S HARD OUT HERE FOR A 20-SOMETHING • Kennedy Lashley was pummelled by pandemic high school. Then she faced an emaciated post-secondary system. Now she’s trying to find work in a market determined to replace her with AI, and she’s one of many. TALES FROM THE LOST GENERATION

MAN VS. MACHINE • For three weeks last spring, ChatGPT convinced Allan Brooks he’d discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory that would change everything. Now he’s suing OpenAI, claiming its product dragged him down a rabbit hole of lies, caused him to spiral into delusion and destroyed his reputation

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Hammer Time • Ten new restaurants, bars and cafés that are worth the drive toHamilton

Peaches’ Parkdale • The electroclash icon takes us on a tour of her go-to spots

The Best Cellar List • Four wine lovers whose private collections are as impressive as the rooms that contain them

The best things to see, do, read and hear this month in Toronto

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My Wheelhouse • I was an Olympic-track long jumper when I tried on my dad’s old skates. I’ve been rolling through life ever since