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L. Graeme Smith

By L. Graeme Smith

L. Graeme Smith is the deputy editor at The Hub.

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A woman interacts with a robot at the Barbican exhibition centre in London, Wednesday, May 15, 2019. Frank Augstein/AP Photo.
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There is nothing inevitable about the future: On AI and the race to replace humanity

New AI technologies are tools, and ones which we ourselves can decide to use or not, and how. Whatever the consequences of these developments, if we want a more human-centered future then we must insist upon it. 

L. Graeme Smith - Posted on December 15, 2022
Clint Watts, president of Miburo, a research firm that tracks foreign disinformation operations, works at his desktop at company headquarters, on March 15, 2022, in New York. Bebeto Matthews/AP Photo.
News Dispatch

As Canada tries to counter Russian disinformation, experts urge a similar effort against China

Disinformation isn’t new. Just ask the Trojans. Whispers and lies have always been as useful as clubs, swords, and bullets when it comes to warfare. Things are no different today,…

L. Graeme Smith - Posted on September 5, 2022
Former British Columbia Premier Christy Clark gives a statement outside Government House in Victoria, B.C., on June 29, 2017. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press.
News Dispatch

Moderate conservatives gather to lament 'rage-filled diatribes'

Back in 2002, Trent Evans and his crew of icemakers from Edmonton buried a loonie at centre ice at the E Center in West Valley, the arena hosting the hockey…

L. Graeme Smith - Posted on August 12, 2022
In this Feb. 7, 2020 file photo, people wearing masks attend a vigil for Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, in Hong Kong. The outpouring of grief and rage sparked by Li's death was an unusual - and for the Chinese Communist Party, unsettling - display in China's tightly monitored civic space. Kin Cheung/AP Photo.
Viewpoint

I was wrong that China would face a reckoning for COVID-19

The Chinese government should be facing the reckoning of all reckonings for its actions and inactions that caused and worsened this pandemic. It hasn’t.

L. Graeme Smith - Posted on August 4, 2022
Federal Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre, centre, poses for photographs with supporters during a meet and greet at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press.
News Dispatch

‘We aren’t just a party of old white guys’: Conservatives see an opportunity with younger voters

A generational shift is occurring within Canada’s conservative movement as it gets younger and more diverse. But can it actually attract the youth vote away from the left?

L. Graeme Smith - Posted on June 23, 2022
A worker at Hope House, an organization that sponsors the use of cryptocurrencies in El Zonte beach, makes a purchase at a small store that accepts Bitcoin, in Tamanique, El Salvador on June 9, 2021. Salvador Melendez/AP Photo.
News Dispatch

Cryptocurrencies as currency: One year into El Salvador’s botched Bitcoin experiment

The most prominent crypto bro taking the biggest loss may be Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s 40-year-old Bitcoin-backing president, who last year made it an official national currency with the passage of the Bitcoin Law.

L. Graeme Smith - Posted on June 8, 2022
Candidate Pierre Poilievre makes a point at the Conservative Party of Canada English leadership debate in Edmonton, Alta., Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press.
News Dispatch

Poilievre says vaccine mandates are based on ‘political science’ not medical science in conversation with Jordan Peterson

CPC leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre spoke with Dr. Jordan Peterson about his candidacy, the Freedom Convoy, and defunding the CBC.

L. Graeme Smith - Posted on May 18, 2022
Artyom Shvets-Rogovoi of Russia, right, scuffle with Magnus Nygren of Sweden during the Ice Hockey World Championship group A match between the Russia and Sweden at the Olympic Sports Center in Riga, Latvia, Monday, May 31, 2021. Roman Koksarov/AP Photo.
News Dispatch

War by other means: Russia hit with sweeping sports sanctions

The world responds to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with unprecedented sanctions, including sweeping bans of Russian athletes across the world of sports.

L. Graeme Smith - Posted on March 7, 2022
Leanne Montenegro, 21, covers her eyes as she doesn't like the sight of needles, while she receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a FEMA vaccination center at Miami Dade College on April 5, 2021, in Miami. Lynne Sladky/AP Photo.
Viewpoint

Fear of needles could be driving vaccine hesitancy. Here's how to beat it

An estimated 3.5 percent of the population is diagnosed with a “blood injection injury phobia.”

L. Graeme Smith - Posted on October 5, 2021
This illustration shows ‘Oumuamua racing toward the outskirts of our solar system. Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI
News Dispatch

What is 'space archeology' and why should we do it?

It is theoretically plausible that perhaps there are alien probes (or alien spaceships, or any other type of objects) probably from far, far away and a long, long time ago, floating about in space and waiting to be found.

L. Graeme Smith - Posted on August 12, 2021
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