Why Ontario must rethink its nuclear refurbishment plans

MV Ramana, University of British Columbia and Xiao Wei, University of British Columbia Ontario is working to refurbish 10 nuclear reactors at the Darlington...

About that spare room: employers requisitioned our homes and our time

Julie P. Smith, Australian National University and Fiona Jenkins, Australian National University Working from home during COVID-19 appeared to cost us little. Yet employers effectively requisitioned...
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4 hours/day; 20 hours/week; 80 hours/month; 960 hours/ year = COMMUTING TIME

Like thousands of people do every day, I spend part of mine travelling to and from my job using a combination of modes of transportation: car, bus, train, street-car, metro, my own feet. Viva Sustainable Mobility, as it make things easier. No way to drive to Toronto.

Making youth soccer less competitive: Better skills or a sign of coddled kids?

Ryan Snelgrove, University of Waterloo and Daniel Wigfield, University of Waterloo With summer ablaze and recent World Cup fever stoking inspiration, soccer fields are sites of athleticism, friendships and...

Election shows Canadians still don’t understand what it means to be racist

Tamari Kitossa, Brock University In the wake of recent events during the federal election, it seems to me that if Canadians are to address the continuing significance of race...

OPINION: Unconscionable abuse of Quebec crime by Trump administration

  PASTOR VALLE-GARAY* / Guest columnist It was a tragedy that hurt the soul and fiber of every Canadian. Alexander Bissonnette, a 27 year-old white French-Canadian walked into a mosque an coldly assassinated 6 Muslims and...

The ‘warspeak’ permeating everyday language puts us all in the trenches

Robert Myers, Alfred University In a manifesto posted online shortly before he went on to massacre 22 people at an El Paso Walmart, Patrick Crusius cited the “invasion” of...

Fútbol y coronavirus: nuevas solidaridades, nuevas oportunidades

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Las mentiras de los niños son engañosamente complejas

Alison O'Connor, Brock University y Angela Evans, Brock University Muchos padres se preocupan cuando observan que su hijo dice mentiras. Sin embargo, las mentiras pueden...

Will Canada finally get pharmacare?

Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph When I had lymphoma 12 years ago, I needed to take the drug pegfilgrastim (Neulasta) to get my white blood cell count high enough...