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When Aang first appeared in Avatar: The Last Airbender as a little bald boy trapped in ice for a century, the language characters used to talk about the Avatar was somewhat generic. Only the Avatar can wield all four elements. It’s their responsibility to restore and maintain peace in the world. We take Aang’s duty, and later Korra’s, at face value. We just sort of assume that’s how this world has always been. The chosen one is reincarnated, and they’re very special. Do we really need to understand more? Then, at a dire point midway through Legend of Korra season 2 when the South Pole spirit portal was opened, plunging the water tribes into civil war, Korra is swallowed by a massive dark spirit while at sea. She loses her memory. So much of each Avatar’s journey has been about reconnecting with their past selves, using their memories, shared knowledge, and skills accumulated over thousands of years. But perhaps for the first time ever, Korra is the only one who must go all the way back to the very beginning.

The journey so farWestern Standard CanvaPublished on:18 Oct 2026, 4:00 pmNatalie St. Hilaire and Randy Royer look back at the major ideas, guests and lessons from the first 16 episodes of Nation of People. From Western alienation and Danielle Smith’s approach to citizen assemblies, Indigenous partnerships, constitutional reform and participatory democracy, they pull together the themes that have shaped the series so far and ask what Alberta can build from here. Western AlienationNation of People Podcastparticipatory democracy

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Ontario’s labour market looks a lot less healthy once you stop averaging it. A new Fraser Institute report, “The Five Solitudes of Ontario,” splits the province of 16.1 million into its five regions—the Greater Golden Horseshoe, Southwestern Ontario, Ottawa and its surrounding area, Eastern Ontario, and Northern Ontario—and tracks each from 2015 to 2025. The authors found that “Ontario should not be treated as a single homogeneous economy.”

To test the approach, they compared more than 1,500 one-dimensional Spheral simulations with asteroid deflection results. (Representational image)MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYResearchers in the United States are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a nuclear device could be used to deflect or potentially disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth. The team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) uses Spheral simulation code to more accurately model how an asteroid might respond when X-rays from a nuclear device detonated near its surface rapidly heat and vaporize material. After validating the approach against established asteroid-deflection models, researchers used Spheral to study three complex disruption scenarios. Hazardous asteroid impact could potentially be prevented