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POLITICS – Biden’s front-runner status reveals weakness of #MeToo strategy

April 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

March 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

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?

January 21, 2019 // 6 Comments

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

January 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

December 7, 2018 // 1 Comment

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

November 5, 2018 // 1 Comment

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

October 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

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

September 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

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?

September 8, 2018 // 1 Comment

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

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]