Transgender Transgender hate crimes are on the rise even in Canadatheconversation.com - Abigail Curlew Canada has a good reputation for LGBTQ rights. Federal political leaders, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and federal NDP Leader Jagmeet …
Citizenship 'Jihadi Jack' and the folly of revoking citizenshiptheconversation.com - Audrey Macklin The British government has just stripped Islamic State recruit Jack Letts of his United Kingdom citizenship. In one sense, the move was unsurprising. …
Play buttonFourth Industrial Revolution Teaching technological stewardship makes future engineers more agile and responsibletheconversation.com - Janna Rosales The scale, pace and breadth of technological development in artificial intelligence, robotics, computing, biotechnology, materials science and beyond …
People's Party of Canada Why Canada’s environmental charities are afraid to talk about climate change during the electiontheconversation.com - Dianne Saxe There is a serious erosion of democracy underway in Canada. Elections Canada is preventing environmental charities from telling the truth about the …
Justin Trudeau Trudeau's response to the SNC-Lavalin affair shows structural misogyny in actiontheconversation.com - Nicole Wyatt In June, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked about the impact on his feminism of dealing with “tough women” in his cabinet. In response, Trudeau …
Digital Age Historians' archival research looks quite different in the digital agetheconversation.com - Ian Milligan Think of all the information that you create today that will be part of the record for tomorrow. More than half of the world’s population is online …
Pollen Still sneezing? Climate change may prolong allergy seasontheconversation.com - Cecilia Sierra-Heredia and Jordan Brubacher and Tim Takaro Every year, without fail, summer brings changes to our surroundings: more sunlight, heat, greenness and flowers, among many others. For some people, …
Play buttonColombia El Grito: Violence in Colombia continues to kill activiststheconversation.com - Diana M. Barrero Jaramillo Grito in Spanish can mean “to cry.” For example, the cries of despair of María del Pilar Hurtado’s son in a video that circulated throughout the …
Chemistry Green chemistry labs teach students a sustainable and innovative mindsettheconversation.com - Devin Latimer The chemical industry has been responsible for numerous technological advancements, but also many environmental problems and disasters. Principles …
Myths Myths about disaster survivors stall the global response to climate changetheconversation.com - Yvonne Su and Maria Tanyag The 2018 report from the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body that assesses climate change science, says the …
Kashmir How to be an ally with Kashmir: War stories from the kitchentheconversation.com - Omer Aijazi The revocation of Kashmir’s special status has left many across the region outraged. As Kashmiris are confronted with a new era of settler …
Concussion Concussion in kids: Insomnia treatment linked to faster recoverytheconversation.com - Brian Brooks and Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen Active kids sustain injuries. It is estimated that every year more than 100,000 Canadian children and adolescents get a concussion while …
Canadian Parliament The role of Canadian mining in the plight of Central American migrantstheconversation.com - Tyler Morgenstern In October 2018, a group of some 4,000 migrants set out en masse from Honduras, headed north toward the United States-Mexico border. In the weeks that …
Schadenfreude Technology start-ups that fail fast, succeed fastertheconversation.com - Grant Alexander Wilson Failure rates of new technology-based companies are shockingly high. It is estimated that 75 per cent of technology start-ups do not generate …
The fascinating history of boredomtheconversation.com - Michelle Fu “I’m bored” is a statement many parents dread hearing during the summer holidays. Should parents scramble to fill the unstructured time of summer for …
Play buttonFake News The language gives it away: How an algorithm can help us detect fake newstheconversation.com - Fatemeh Torabi Asr Have you ever read something online and shared it among your networks, only to find out it was false? As a software engineer and computational …
Al Franken Good character testimonies aren't a defence for sexual harassmenttheconversation.com - Martina Orlandi Suppose you’re watching the news, and you learn that someone, let’s call her Mary, has been accused of murdering her colleague Sally. There is …
Canadian Companies Courts are handcuffed on corporate human rights abuses abroadtheconversation.com - Hassan M. Ahmad Last month marked the first time a lawsuit between a Canadian company and victims of foreign human rights violations ended with a confidential …
Beaches A day at the beach: Deep learning for a childtheconversation.com - Lotje Hives and Tara-Lynn Scheffel The beach offers a wide open playscape where children are fuelled by curiosity. Whether at the beach or elsewhere outdoors, it helps to take a moment …
Adolf Hitler Understanding how Hitler became German helps us deal with modern-day extremiststheconversation.com - Klaus Meyer The 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War is approaching. It’s important to understand how the conflict and the Holocaust could …
Plastic The demand for luxury shellfish is polluting the ocean with plastictheconversation.com - Leah Bendell The federal government has taken action recently to reduce the amount of plastic waste found on land and in oceans, rivers and lakes. In June, for …
Everglades SwampScapes: A virtual reality field trip through South Florida's Evergladestheconversation.com - Elizabeth (Liz) Miller Before cities there were swamps. Wetlands and swamps globally have been sacrificed to pave the way for housing, agriculture and industry. Urban …
Huawei Canada will antagonize either the U.S. or China with wireless tech decisionstheconversation.com - Justin Longo The current standard for mobile networks is what the tech industry calls fourth generation, or 4G. But this will soon be overtaken by fifth …
Big Pharma Health Canada and Big Pharma: Too close for comforttheconversation.com - Joel Lexchin Over the past few decades it’s become common practice for drug companies and drug regulators, such as Health Canada, to sit down together at what are …
Doug Ford Doug Ford: Continuing to turn his back on 'the people' despite new facestheconversation.com - Mark Winfield The famous physicist Sir Issac Newton’s first law of motion states that objects in motion will continue in motion at the same speed and direction, …
DNA Rat detective uses DNA to uncover how rats scurry around citiestheconversation.com - Kaylee Byers It’s dark and I’m parked in an alley near a lopsided compost bin. I have a notepad, binoculars and a lukewarm cup of coffee — everything needed for a …
Barbados The roots of America's white nationalism reach back to this island's brutal historytheconversation.com - J.M. Opal The vicious ideology that allegedly drove a gunman to kill 22 people in El Paso, Texas last week could be traced back to a tiny island on the eastern …
Conservative Party of Canada Canada's marginal 'Christian right'theconversation.com - Jonathan Malloy The political power of the American Christian right naturally leads to interest and speculation about the influence of similar groups in Canada. But …
Scholarship Can 'progress studies' contribute to knowledge? History suggests cautiontheconversation.com - Shannon Dea and Ted McCormick According to tech entrepreneur Patrick Collison and economist Tyler Cowen, academia needs a new discipline called “progress studies.” But their …
Behavior 5 ways to shift consumers towards sustainable behaviourtheconversation.com - David J. Hardisty and Katherine White and Rishad Habib Most people want to be sustainable, but have a hard time taking the necessary actions. According to Nielsen, a data analytics company, sustainability …
