Kate Allen

1 month ago | thespec.com | Anastasia Blosser |Richie Assaly |Kate Allen |Susan Clairmont

Torstar newspapers the Hamilton Spectator and Waterloo Record also received a combined three nominations. The Globe and Mail leads the 2024 pool with 16 nominations. Other news organizations with multiple finalists include La Presse with 13 nominations, The Canadian Press/La Presse Canadienne with four, Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun with three, Reuters with two, Sing Tao with two and the Halifax Chronicle Herald, which has two finalists including one shared with the Globe and Mail.

Dec 7, 2024 | stcatharinesstandard.ca | David Rider |Kate Allen

As Toronto furiously debates bike lanes and their role in the city’s notorious gridlock, mostly missing from the discussion is a culprit that at its peak occupied almost one-fifth of the city’s road network. Construction — for provincially managed transit projects, condo and office buildings, and utility work to support Toronto’s booming growth — closes more kilometres of roadway than bike lanes, special events or anything else.

Dec 7, 2024 | thespec.com | David Rider |Kate Allen

As Toronto furiously debates bike lanes and their role in the city’s notorious gridlock, mostly missing from the discussion is a culprit that at its peak occupied almost one-fifth of the city’s road network. Construction — for provincially managed transit projects, condo and office buildings, and utility work to support Toronto’s booming growth — closes more kilometres of roadway than bike lanes, special events or anything else.

Dec 7, 2024 | wellandtribune.ca | David Rider |Kate Allen

As Toronto furiously debates bike lanes and their role in the city’s notorious gridlock, mostly missing from the discussion is a culprit that at its peak occupied almost one-fifth of the city’s road network. Construction — for provincially managed transit projects, condo and office buildings, and utility work to support Toronto’s booming growth — closes more kilometres of roadway than bike lanes, special events or anything else.

Oct 8, 2024 | thespec.com | Kate Allen

Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist, has grappled more deeply with the dangers, opportunities and mushrooming uses for artificial intelligence than most people alive today. He is a “godfather” of machine learning, after all — and his breakthroughs in the field were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday, in a citation that echoed Hinton’s own cautions about the risks to humankind.