Chapter 9 Questions
+ Voices from the Story and Referenced Resources
Think about it
- Think about a time when you acted like a hypocrite. Were you honest about your hypocrisy? What could you have done to avoid being hypocritical?
- What do you think about the Overton Window concept? Do you agree that it's wide open, as Shachi Kurl argued?
- Why is it bad to live in a bubble (literally and figuratively)?
- Does social media need fixing? If you think it does, what can you do to make it better?
- What's the key to respectful debate?
- What do you think is more effective: positive or negative messaging?
- How will you pitch or present your project?
- What lesson will you take away from this story?
- What quote impacted you the most?
- Are there any changes you want to make to your pitch before you present?
- Do you think peer review matters?
- Do you take constructive criticism well?
- How can we all be more thoughtful critics?
- Do you think there is a difference between helpful and unhelpful help?
- What will you do to own your hypocrisy?
Reflection Activity
- Find a partner and discuss this story. How can you help heal our divides and improve the health of our democracy? How can you be a better critic? How can you accomplish both goals, starting with your project in this class?
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Referenced Resources
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- Media’s Indigenous coverage has always been slanted. And it’s still scant, says writer Hayden King
- Common portrayals of Indigenous people
- Can journalists be taught economics? We'll find out
- Our House Is Burning: Discrepancy in Climate Change vs. Biodiversity Coverage in the Media as Compared to Scientific Literature
- ‘Why Isn’t the Media Covering This Story?’—or Are They?
- Millennials Don’t Love Capitalism but Can’t Stop Using Amazon
- Amazon Isn't the Problem. We Are.
- Our short-term politics has left us unable to solve big problems
- Are Canadian Political Parties Empty Vessels?
- The Contours of Political Party Membership in Canada
- How to fix Canada’s political parties
- New report finds federal government is failing in its promise to leave no one behind
- Is Ottawa aware the world is on brink of a food shortage?
- Canada's climate change efforts going from 'failure to failure,' says commissioner's report
- It's our own fault that politicians don't come up with policies that actually fix problems
- Should We Trust Economists?
- Social Media Is the Problem
- Canadian consumers 2nd-worst in environmental impact survey
- The Politics of Anger
- Too many politicians are afraid to tell voters the truth
- Why is politics getting nastier?
- Politicians denounce video of Alberta man verbally harassing Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland
- 'Stand with Swastikas': Emergencies Act debate turns ugly as opposition grows
- ‘Real-world dangers’: Security memos reveal ‘intensified’ threats facing Canadian MPs
- Where did Canada’s famed civility go?
- Only 53 per cent of Canadians trust core institutions, report says
- Canada’s Growing Problem with Trust in Government
- Trucker convoy demonstrations spread across Canada as counter-protests call for an end to disruptions
- Thousands opposed to COVID-19 rules converge on Parliament Hill
- Trucker convoy: Counter-protesters demand action from police
- Canada's angry, divisive politics are as old as Canada itself
- Canada’s protests settle down, but could echo in politics
- Canada is an angry country and we all need to take a breather
- No quick fix for extreme view and angry politics in Canada
- Politicians aren't listening to people — no wonder so many are angry
- Opinion: 67% agree Canada is broken — and here's why
- How the alt-right shifted the Overton window
- Kanye and the Overton Window on Antisemitism
- Canadians Take Note: Left Populism Is Rising Up
- 'No news is bad news': Canadian media is collapsing, says journalist and author
- From Potty Idea to Political Reality: The Overton Window is Broken
- How the Politically Unthinkable Can Become Mainstream
- The Link Between Political Rhetoric and Racial Bullying in School
- Extremism, hateful rhetoric becoming ‘normalized’ in Canada, spy agency head warns
- The internet is already awash in Notre Dame conspiracies
- The opening of Europe’s Overton window
- Peter Jennings – an appreciation
- Mind the Gaps: Quantifying the Decline of News Coverage in Canada
- What Is Balkanization?
- How polarization and splintered media are fostering a world of doubt
- How Disinformation Splintered and Became More Intractable
- When Americans Lost Faith in the News
- How and Why the Media Failed the Public
- Do you want to fix the news media race problem? Put fewer white men at the top
- It’s a sin: Analyzing media coverage of the AIDS epidemic over time
- How the portrayal of women in media has changed
- How Race and Gender Impact the Perceived Objectivity of Broadcast Women of Color on Twitter
- Breaking News: Canadian Media Fails to Represent
- 150 years of failing Indigenous communities in Canadian media
- It Costs Us All When Media Fails to Reflect its Audience
- The curse of ‘both-sidesism’: How climate denial skewed media coverage for 30 years
- Articles by Donne Kennedy Glans
- Rural Canada’s weakening voice in election coverage
- As trucker convoy rolls into Ottawa, media faces criticism from right-leaning politicians
- My "35 Tribes" that explain Canadian politics
- Barack Obama warns against a “circular firing squad” over ideological purity in politics
- Anger, Fear, and Echo Chambers: The Emotional Basis for Online Behavior
- Conservative purity test for leadership does party no favours
- Canadian Conservatives Are Leaning Into Their Own Brand of Identity Politics
- Political polarization and its echo chambers: Surprising new, cross-disciplinary perspectives from Princeton
- How media bias works and why it’s inevitable
- Left-leaning media ‘unbelievably biased’ against Conservative Party, say some readers and related letters
- Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
- The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism
- 'The confirmation bias… is quite real': journalism student
- The racial divide on news coverage, and why representation matters
- Echo chambers, rabbit holes, and ideological bias: How YouTube recommends content to real users
- A fistful of facts and the end of truth
- Polarized like never before: Hard work ahead to bring Canada together, expert says
- COP15 biodiversity summit in Montréal: Canada failed to meet its 2020 conservation targets. Will 2030 be any better?
- Anger, delusion and distrust: Is Canada’s democracy in decline?
- What Happens When Democracies Become Perniciously Polarized?
- Polarized Canada needs to find common ground
- What Is Consensus Building?
- Survey suggests Canadians becoming more divided over COVID-19, politics
- On Tyranny
- Putin’s tyranny is well known and long ignored
- To understand Putin, look to the history of tyrants
- Parents frustrated by continuous school bus bullying in Hammonds Plains
- Technology and Tyranny: Social Media and the End of the Liberal World Order
- Cyberbullying Remains Rampant On Social Media
- This is what's wrong with Canada's Left
- This is what's wrong with Canada's Right
- Internet + Discourse: Is social media destroying our ability to say ‘I Disagree’?
- Four Ways Online Incivility Harms Canadian Politics
- How to Handle Political Bullying on Facebook
- A Field Guide to Online Political Conversations
- The Both Side–ism of Amy Chua
- How did conservatives come to be so attracted to extremism?
- The Left is constantly trying to out-woke itself. That's a problem.
- Does a ‘credible climate plan’ require a carbon tax? The debate among Conservatives has already started
- A Conservative Grassroots Thick with Climate Crisis Deniers
- Can Canada Handle a Rational, Polite and Fact-Based Debate About Immigration?
- How the ‘Culture War’ Could Break Democracy
- Jordan Peterson: The man who reignited Canada’s culture war
- The Moral Case Against Equity Language
- Why virtue signaling isn’t the same as virtue – it actually furthers the partisan divide
- How the Politically Unthinkable Can Become Mainstream
- The problem of living inside echo chambers
- Have far-right radicals infiltrated Canada’s conservative parties? We’re about to find out
- Radical activists are a problem on the Left, too
- Why we're calling out the left and the right of Canadian politics
- What the yellow vests' revolt revealed about the sad state of the Left
- As Kanye West praises Hitler, advocates fear antisemitism is going mainstream
- The Answer to Extremism Isn’t More Extremism
- 13 examples of the Harper government’s anti-democratic abuses
- Trudeau is no different than Harper when it comes to transparency
- Justin Trudeau's anti-democratic agenda
- A new online poll by INNOVATIVE of 2,390 adults in Canada shows that one year into the pandemic, Canadians are less fearful of COVID and more angry towards their governments and communities.
- Trump calls Trudeau 'far left lunatic,' expresses support for convoy
- The Ottawa trucker convoy is rooted in Canada’s settler colonial history
- Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich on what comes next: 'It’s just going to get fun now'
- 'So many angry people': Experts say online conversation around trucker convoy veering into dangerous territory
- By Canada’s definition, Bill 96 is racial discrimination
- Justin Trudeau’s anti-Islamophobia disaster reveals a government dangerously out of touch with voters
- Alberta’s sovereignty act is a seditious and sobering threat to Canadian democracy
- As Alberta’s anger deepens, it gets harder to turn off
- A Crossroads for Humanity: Earth's Biodiversity is Still Collapsing
- World War III Begins With Forgetting
- Doomsday Clock
- Ukraine war student-turned-soldier: 'Friends die in your arms'
- We’re witnessing the continuing cultural divergence of Canada and the United States
- How America Lost Its Mind
- Is polarization in Canada comparable to the U.S.? Not even close
- Politics and disengagement: Two-in-five say there’s “no room” for compromise in Canada; most say their interests are ignored
- Canada is picking up the political radicalization bug from the U.S., new report warns
- ‘The warning lights are flashing.' Report finds nations failing to protect biodiversity
- A decade of broken promises: How Canada failed to meet its goal for protecting land and water
- Taking the Canadian flag off our backpacks
- Calling all Canadian travellers: Get that maple leaf off your backpack
- After decades of timidity, can Canada’s allies still take us seriously?
- Canada Is No Longer Considered The 'Best Country In The World' & There Are Several Reasons Why
- Canada a good, not great, place to live: report
- Baffled by the Chaos in Canada? So Are Canadians.
- As Americans become more polarized politically, Canadians are converging toward the centre, poll finds
- Blame the source of all Canada’s problems on the Americans, eh?
- Time to end the myth of Canadian exceptionalism
- Survey suggests Canadians becoming more divided over COVID-19, politics
- Not So Nice After All: Growing Polarization in Canadian Politics
- Will the Coronavirus Bring Us Together or Push Us Apart?
- 'We're all in this together': The phrase uniting Toronto in long, lonely battle against COVID-19
- COVID-19 in Canada: A Two-year Update on Social and Economic Impacts
- B.C.’s report on hate during the pandemic is called ‘From Hate to Hope.’ It’s hard to see the hope
- All in this Together? Canadians’ Views on Masks, Vaccines and Lockdowns during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- With COVID-19, we’ve never been “all in this together”
- Across advanced economies, most say the pandemic has increased social divisions
- Pandemics don't heal divisions, they reveal them
- 'Us Vs. Them' In A Pandemic: Researchers Warn Divisions Could Get Dangerous
- Long pandemic could add to extremism, decline in democracy: Defence Department report
- One Year Later Canadians Are More Angry at Their Governments and Neighbours and Less Afraid of Covid Itself
- Celebrating Janet Austin's Installation as Lieutenant Governor of BC
- Canadians are more polarized and partisan than ever before: Canadian Journal of Political Science
- Why 6 in 10 Canadians feel the country is divided
- The environment is Canada’s biggest wedge issue
- How much land is needed to stop the biodiversity crisis?
- How to save the economy
- It's tough to talk politics these days, but it helps to start by listening
- Scientists on Twitter, Preaching to the Choir or Singing From the Rooftops?
- Covid anxiety is giving way to economic anxiety. How to cope.
- For oil and gas workers, 'just transitioning' can be a mental health burden
- How misinformation can kill you
- When it comes to politics, it's not disagreeing that's the problem — it's that we like each other less
- Why the “freedom” convoys are tearing Canadian friendships apart
- Opinion The simple fix to our polarization: Befriend someone you disagree with
- The Great Canadian Compromise: The Canada Letter
- Policy Success in Canada
- Us vs. Them: The process of othering
- Calgary student invents $7 artery-disease screening test
- Canada is picking up the political radicalization bug from the U.S., new report warns
- Anger, delusion and distrust: Is Canada’s democracy in decline?
- Jane Goodall Institute Canada
- Polarized like never before: Hard work ahead to bring Canada together, expert says
- Going Wild with Brian Keeting
- Connections: In politics, nothing new under the sun
- The Path to Nazi Genocide
- Us vs. Them: The process of othering
- How Social Media is changing the Speed of Journalism
- The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History
- BlackBerry phones once ruled the world, then the world changed
- This number is no longer in service: Farewell to the BlackBerry
- How the iPhone changed the world in 15 years
- Randall Howard
- Tech investor Randall Howard is Angel of the Year
- What investors mean when they say they want “social impact”
- Why investors are putting sustainability at the top of the agenda
- What is ESG and What Does it Mean for Business?
- Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
- Canadians Choose Restaurants Based Upon the Best Online Reviews According to New Survey
- Marc Lepine from Atelier in Ottawa wins Gold Medal Plates
- Canada's 100 Best: Chef Marc Lepine
- Meet Atelier’s Marc Lepine, Canada’s Most Crazily Creative Chef
- Why You Can’t Really Trust Negative Online Reviews
- There’s No Such Thing as Constructive Criticism
- Filtering Through the Noise: Useless Vs. Useful Criticism
- The Hidden Cameras
- Broken Pencils
- Maggie MacDonald
- No One Receiving podcast draws a dream team of Toronto artists and musicians
- 1999 Ontario Election
- EcoParent: Maggie MacDonald
- Peer Review Process
- Our commitment to rigorous, constructive and inclusive peer review
- The Feedback Fallacy
- Beware, Not All Advice Is Good Advice
- Trolls Aren’t Like the Rest of Us
- Internet Trolls
- Why you should limit your time on social media
- Facing Unwarranted Criticism? Here's How to Stop It The faster you teach others to judge you fairly, the faster you can live to your top potential.
- Why We Ignore Good Advice
- People who give unsolicited advice secretly want one thing
- How to Get the Help You Need
- Six reasons why criticism is a good thing
- Is Your Criticism Constructive Or Harmful? 13 Ways To Assess Your Feedback Style
- A Guide to Constructive Criticism with Tips and Examples
- The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice
- Today’s society has become extremely critical and judgmental about everything
- Everyone's a critic now
- Rage is poisoning public life in Canada
- In Canada fears of 'dangerous' politics mounting
- 5 steps to provide feedback that’s helpful, not hurtful
- Why Are Some People So Critical?
- How do you judge art?
- Maybe it’s time to take emotion out of our politics
- Negative Feedback Rarely Leads to Improvement
- YouTube introduces new feature to address toxic comments
- Opinion: The high cost of political mistakes
- Time Essay: In Defense of Politicians: Do We Ask Too Much?
- So you want Canada to abolish the monarchy? Here’s why that’s basically impossible
- The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome