PIPELINE – Why a group of First Nations wants to own the Trans Mountain
By HARRIE VREDENBURT University of Calgary THE STANDOFF BETWEEN Indigenous communities — backed by environmentalists — and the oil industry has led to regional [Continue]
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POLITICS – Biden’s front-runner status reveals weakness of #MeToo strategy
By HEIDI MATTHEWS York University, Canada WITH HIS OFFICIAL DECLARATION that he’s running for president again, Joe Biden is now considered the front-runner in the crowded [Continue]
SNC-LAVALIN – Deferred prosecution deals aren’t get-out-of-jail free cards
By SUKANYA PILLAY University of Windsor PRIME MINISTER Justin Trudeau’s government remains in hot water over SNC-Lavalin. Even anti-bribery officials from the Organisation [Continue]
ENVIRONMENT – If we can’t recycle it, why not turn waste plastic into fuel?
By MUXINA KONAROVA The University of Queensland AUSTRALIA’S recycling crisis needs us to look into waste management options beyond just recycling and landfilling. Some [Continue]
POLITICS – With an election ahead, public records must be made public
By BARRY WELLAR University of Ottawa CITIZENS REQUIRE ACCESS to public records in order to become properly informed about the activities of their governments and to provide [Continue]
LABOR – Back-to-work legislation may come back to haunt Justin Trudeau
By CHARLES SMITH University of Saskatchewan, and LARRY SAVAGE Brock University THE JUSTIN TRUDEAU government’s use of back-to-work legislation effectively put an end to the [Continue]
THE CONVERSATION – Goodbye Apu – here’s what you meant to us
By FAIZA HIRJI McMaster University The Simpsons’ Apu may be dead, but stereotyping of South Asians most certainly is not. In fact, from the debates that preceded the [Continue]
THE CONVERSATION – How Canada can empower indigenous communities
By WALID HEJAZI University of Toronto The federal government recently spent $4.5 billion dollars to purchase the Trans Mountain pipeline, a move that highlights the [Continue]
THE CONVERSATION – Ford’s fight with Toronto shows vulnerability of cities
By JEFFREY B. MEYERS Thompson Rivers University THE PING PONG LEGAL BATTLE between Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the City of Toronto — all of it playing out amid a [Continue]
THE CONVERSATION – Is the anti-Trump editorial treason or public service?
By ANDRE SPICER City, University of London ONE OF DONALD TRUMP’S senior White House staff has made a truly unprecedented move against their ultimate boss. The staffer [Continue]
THE CONVERSATION – Fighting historic wildfires amid bad ideas and no funding
By EDWARD STRUZIK Queen’s University, Ontario SHORTLY AFTER my book “Firestorm, How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future” was published in late 2017, I received a flurry [Continue]
THE CONVERSATION – Both countries are wrong in Saudi-Canada spat
By HOUSSEM BEN LAZREG University of Alberta THE SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED diplomatic crisis between Canada and Saudi Arabia has raised questions about their levels of bilateral [Continue]
THE CONVERSATION – Fighting back against the poison of social media
By FUYUKI KURASAWA Associate Professor, York University, Canada IN THE MINUTES AND HOURS that followed of the recent mass shooting in Toronto, an all-too-familiar pattern [Continue]
CONVERSATION – America looks hopeless – a lot like the ‘mother country’ once did
Gin Lane, a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners; a woman lets her child fall to its death and an emaciated ballad-seller. (Image: William Hogarth) By J.M. [Continue]
