Indigenous Peoples Indigenous-led clean-energy projects could power reconciliationtheconversation.com - Heather Castleden The federal government recently announced a $20 million initiative to reduce diesel dependency in up to 15 remote Indigenous communities. At first …
Play buttonSerbia A Neanderthal tooth discovered in Serbia reveals human migration historytheconversation.com - Mirjana Roksandic and Joshua Allan Lindal In 2015, our Serbian-Canadian archaeological research team was working at a cave site named Pešturina, in Eastern Serbia, where we had found …
Hospitals Hospitals must adapt so infants can 'room-in' with opioid-dependent motherstheconversation.com - Mary Malebranche Opioid use in pregnancy has risen dramatically in recent years, along with the opioid epidemic within the general Canadian population. One study found …
Stephen Harper Trudeau's libel threat against Scheer: a great Canadian political traditiontheconversation.com - Randy Boswell Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s threatened defamation suit against Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer over the SNC-Lavalin affair is just the latest …
Indigenous Peoples Using maps as a weapon to resist extractive industries on Indigenous territoriestheconversation.com - Sébastien Caquard and Annita Lucchesi and Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert and Leah Temper and Thomas Mcgurk For Indigenous peoples across the Americas, urgent threats imposed by the industrial extraction of natural resources has characterized the 21st …
Play buttonMasculinity Men are mentors in program for adolescent boys about healthy relationships and sexualitytheconversation.com - Caroline Claussen Social media campaigns such as #MeToo have brought tremendous attention to the issue of sexual violence in North American society, igniting the call …
Play buttonSmart Cities Smart cities: The promises and failures of utopian technological planningtheconversation.com - Sylvie Albert Technology and innovation transform the ways that we interact with governments, purchase products and manage our health and lives. This turmoil …
Minecraft Minecraft can increase problem solving, collaboration and learning - yes, at schooltheconversation.com - Thierry Karsenti A video game like Minecraft in schools might trouble some parents. As a Canada research chair in technologies and education, my hope is both parents …
Spain Why Spain's upcoming election will change Spanish immigration politicstheconversation.com - Edward Koning The upcoming election in Spain will be different. While the country has long been one of the few in western Europe without a populist anti-immigrant …
Jason Kenney Jason Kenney won by portraying himself as the Guardian of Albertatheconversation.com - Jared Wesley A number of years ago, I wrote a book about how to become a premier of Alberta. In it, I suggested one of the keys was to cast oneself as the …
Plastic Pollution Cities and countries aim to slash plastic waste within a decadetheconversation.com - Chelsea Rochman and Diane Orihel If all goes well, 2030 will be quite a special year. Global and local community leaders from more than 170 countries have pledged to “significantly …
Play buttonCanadian Space Agency Canada's approach to lunar exploration needs to be strategic or we'll be left behindtheconversation.com - Alex Ellery Should Canada go to the moon? What’s there for Canadians? It is these questions that we should ponder when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently …
Colonialism Earth Day: Colonialism's role in the overexploitation of natural resourcestheconversation.com - Joseph McQuade We are currently experiencing the worst environmental crisis in human history, including a “biological annihilation” of wildlife and dire risks for …
Jason Kenney Jason Kenney's victory means we'll all pay the price for fossil fuel emissionstheconversation.com - D.T. Cochrane Jason Kenney has led the United Conservative Party to victory in Alberta. There were many objectionable components to the UCP campaign. One of the …
Play buttonAdministrative Law What the U.K.’s Online Harms white paper teaches us about internet regulationtheconversation.com - Blayne Haggart and Natasha Tusikov Amidst a growing consensus that social media and online platforms must be subject to public regulation, the United Kingdom has stepped up to do just …
Clothing Ban leggings on campus? Ludicrous -- wearing leggings allows women to move like superheroestheconversation.com - Samantha Brennan I’m writing this at my office computer wearing leggings and a short skirt. I wear the leggings because I ride my bike to work and they keep my legs …
Medical School Five strategies to improve medical training -- to reduce stress and boost expertisetheconversation.com - Stephen Archer Recent changes in undergraduate medical education and postgraduate residency training in Canada are stressing trainee doctors, increasing their debt …
Winnipeg How an NHL street party caused a social media storm about racismtheconversation.com - Lori Wilkinson As the city of Winnipeg was preparing to host a large celebration to mark the beginning of the National Hockey League playoffs for its team, the …
Legal Aid Ontario’s cuts to legal aid for refugees: Racist, xenophobic and possibly unconstitutionaltheconversation.com - Sharry Aiken and Sean Rehaag The recent Ontario budget included a 30 per cent cut to legal aid. This will cause hardship for many low-income residents of Ontario, who are …
Exercise How your smartphone can encourage active livingtheconversation.com - Tarun Katapally Physical inactivity is the fourth leading risk factor for death globally and has reached the status of a global pandemic — a definition that is …
OECD New global testing standards will force countries to revisit academic rankingstheconversation.com - Louis Volante and John Jerrim and Jo Ritzen and Sylke Schnepf Since 2000 when the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched a global academic benchmark for measuring student outcomes …
Play buttonAgnès Varda Agnès Varda, a pioneering artist who saw the extraordinary in the ordinarytheconversation.com - Margot Irvine Fans and friends began commemorating beloved French film director Agnès Varda immediately after her death, at age 90, on March 29, 2019. Bouquets, …
International Criminal CourtBy not investigating the U.S. for war crimes, the International Criminal Court shows colonialism still thrives in internationaltheconversation.com - Helyeh Doutaghi and Jay Ramasubramanyam On April 5, the United States revoked the visa of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, for her attempts to open …
War Children educate teachers with their testimonies from war zonestheconversation.com - Aparna Mishra Tarc Fatima’s dream is recalled in a single sentence: “Once I dreamed I fell from a ship and then I woke up… and was afraid.” Fatima’s dream attests to a …
Physical Education Welcome to the latest wave of 'modernizing,' 'progressive' school reforms in Ontariotheconversation.com - Theodore Christou In Ontario’s recent 2019 budget, the minister of finance says because the previous government failed at teaching the basics, a “lack of foundational …
Grizzly Bears Alberta grizzly bears will feel the effects of climate changetheconversation.com - Greg McDermid and David Laskin and Scott Nielsen Toward the end of each summer, grizzly bears in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains gorge on the tart red berries of a shrub called Canada buffaloberry …
Birdwatching How birders helped pinpoint hotspots for migratory bird conservationtheconversation.com - Richard Schuster and Amanda D. Rodewald and Joseph Bennett and Peter Arcese and Scott Wilson Many bird populations are crashing, largely because they migrate such long distances and are at risk from human influence at every link in their …
Human Rights The rout of ISIS gives the world an opportunity to defeat its ideologytheconversation.com - Kyle Matthews The Islamic State (ISIS) has been defeated in Syria. This brings an end to the world’s most feared terrorist group and their control of physical …
Heavy periods? You might have an undiagnosed bleeding disordertheconversation.com - Paula James About 30 per cent of all women report heavy menstrual periods at some point during their reproductive years. Up to 15 per cent of these have an …
Ideology Starving online trolls won't stop far-right ideas from going mainstreamtheconversation.com - Brian Budd Facebook recently announced it’s banning a number of Canadian far-right figures and groups from its platform. Those expelled from Facebook include …
