The CBC Radio station in Windsor spoke with Glenn Maleyko, who lives in suburban Windsor but crosses over to the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, where he is superintendent of the public school board. While the schools he runs were closed in Michigan, his two children didn’t miss any classes in Ontario.

Mr. Maleyko suggested that a frenzy of dire cold weather warnings on American television and then through social media increased fear on that side of the border.

“That hype started over a week ago and then social media takes off,” he said. “I really do think that social media has changed it and maybe it just hasn’t changed it to the same level over here.”

Looking for Parity

The editors over in the Opinion side of The Times want to correct an imbalance. Currently only about one-quarter to one-third of letters to the editor come from women. Now they’re committed to achieving parity through a campaign to get women — and anyone else who feels underrepresented — to write in.

In addition to emailed letters and ones of the postal variety, the campaign will include seeking out letter writers through newsletters like this one, the Reader Center, Facebook groups and other flavors of social media.

Uncertain how to start? Here’s Opinion’s guide to submitting letters to the editor. The editors will report back on the campaign a year from now.