The Conversation

THE CONVERSATION – Fighting historic wildfires amid bad ideas and no funding

August 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

August 10, 2018 // 1 Comment

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

July 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

July 23, 2018 // 4 Comments

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]