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OSCARS – Banshees, wives, women and mavericks: Best Picture predictions

March 11, 2023 // 0 Comments

By ARI MATTES University of Notre Dame Australia OF THE 10 FILMS nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, six are really good. That’s a high percentage for a year – 2022 – [Continue]

DOOMSDAY CLOCK – It’s 90 seconds to midnight, closest ever to catastrophe

January 27, 2023 // 2 Comments

By JACK L. ROZDILSKY and CHRISTIAN FAIZE CANAAN York University, Canada On Jan. 24, history was again made when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ organization moved [Continue]

POLITICS – How Danielle Smith won in Alberta and what it means for Canada

October 10, 2022 // 1 Comment

By LISA YOUNG University of Calgary DANIELLE SMITH RODE A WAVE of Alberta populism to win the United Conservative Party leadership on the sixth ballot. When she is sworn in [Continue]

QUEEN ELIZABETH II – A modernizer who steered the monarchy into 21st century

September 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

By SEAN LANG Anglie Ruskin University WHEN THE LATE historian Sir Ben Pimlott embarked on his 1996 biography, his colleagues expressed surprise that he should consider Queen [Continue]

CHRISTMAS – Five things to know about Mary, the mother of Jesus

December 25, 2021 // 0 Comments

Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece, 1432. Virgin Mary detail. (Wikimedia Commons) By PHILIP C. ALMOND The University of Queensland MARY, THE MOTHER OF JESUS, is [Continue]

CLIMATE – How an ‘atmospheric river’ led to floods and mudslides in B.C.

November 19, 2021 // 1 Comment

By JOHN J. CLAGUE Simon Fraser University THE WEST COAST of Canada is known for its wet autumn weather, but the storm that British Columbia’s Fraser Valley experienced over [Continue]

POLITICS – Why minority governments have been good, and sometimes bad

September 21, 2021 // 2 Comments

By ALEX MARLAND Memorial University of Newfoundland CANADA HAS ANOTHER MINORITY government. Is this good or bad for Canadian democracy? Mostly good — for now. There’s a [Continue]

POLITICS – Think the danger is past? Wrong; insurrection threat isn’t over

January 8, 2021 // 1 Comment

By JACK L. ROZDILSKY York University, Canada IN A DARK AND SURREAL MOMENT in American history, on the afternoon of Jan. 6, a group of Americans staged a violent protest by [Continue]

U.S. ELECTION – Trump takes a leaf out of autocrat playbook with victory claim

November 5, 2020 // 1 Comment

By NATASHA LINDSTAEDT University of Essex In the months leading up to US election day, it was predicted that Donald Trump would not accept the results if he lost, would cast [Continue]

POLITICS – Trump’s hospitalization may cause instability at the White House

October 4, 2020 // 1 Comment

By JACK L. ROZDILSKY York University, Canada WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT of President Donald Trump’s hospitalization for COVID-19, a dangerous situation is now unfolding at the [Continue]

POLITICS – Sorting out the chaotic ‘debate’ between Biden and Trump

October 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

Alison Gash, University of Oregon; Alexander Cohen, Clarkson University, and Rashawn Ray, University of Maryland President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden [Continue]

POLITICS – With Harris pick, Biden reaches out to young black Americans

August 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

By SAM FULWOOD III American University and DAVID C. BARKER American University School of Public Affairs WITH HIS choice of Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, Joe Biden [Continue]

POLICING – How police departments can identify and get rid of killer cops

June 11, 2020 // 2 Comments

By TEMITOPE ORIOLA University of Alberta THE GLOBAL CONDEMNATION of the death of George Floyd, one of the latest in a constellation of officer-involved deaths of unarmed [Continue]

POLITICS – Why leaders who bullshit are more dangerous than those who lie

May 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

By HAMID FOUROUGHI University of Portsmouth MARIANNA FOTAKI University of Warwick YIANNIS GABRIEL University of Bath BULLSHIT SEEMS TO BE the new currency in politics. Around [Continue]