Grab your cup of coffee or tea, and sit down with a selection of this week’s great reads from The Globe. In this issue, we look at Gen Z and how the events of the last six years, including a global pandemic, have shaped a generation that remains a force to be reckoned with – despite its pessimism about the world and the future ahead.
Konrad Yakabuski turns his lens on the Liberal government’s plan to ramp up immigration to levels unseen in a century and questions its shaky premise that this would be good for the economy. Barry Hertz writes about the state of crisis Canada’s independent movie theatres find themselves in as they face mounting challenges, including increasingly restrictive demands from the studios and distributors that provide films to theatres.
If you’re reading this on the web, or it was forwarded to you from someone else, you can sign up for Great Reads and more than 20 other Globe newsletters on ourHannah Zilke, 19, in Calgary on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, has chosen to delete her social media from her devices, saying it’s not made for people. Zilke has experienced a great deal of stress about the current state of the world and the future.
Canada’s falling productivity and national wealth can be traced back to our shortfalls in funding independent research. Over decades, the impact of inadequate funding and messy innovation policy have rippled out to the economy and society. For the sake of this country’s future, David Naylor and Stephen J. Toope our governments must do better.