Opinion: Canada's universities must transcend the echo chambers

Our society is becoming increasingly atomized. Social media enables us to spend all day long in an ideological bubble, in which our own views are fed back to us. While making us feel good, our echo chamber also polarizes, alienates and leads us to see those with whom we disagree as stupid or evil.
Now more than ever, these new realities require universities to step up and educate the next generation of Canadians about how to have a civil and intellectual conversation with those with whom we disa