Covid-19: ¿profunda recesión o motivo para la esperanza?
Francisco Jareño Cebrián, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
¿Se acuerdan de cuando de pequeños nos decían “¡Que viene el coco!” y temblábamos sin saber qué era el coco? Lo mismo...
Fútbol y coronavirus: nuevas solidaridades, nuevas oportunidades
Fútbol y coronavirus: nuevas solidaridades, nuevas oportunidades
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Green with rage: Women climate change leaders face online attacks
Tracey Raney, Ryerson University and Mackenzie Gregory, Ryerson University
Women leaders who support climate action are being attacked online with increasing regularity. These attacks should be viewed as a...
The figs of George The Macedonian
If you drive from Bathurst to Jane using the quiet streets around Lawrence, you may encounter a fragment of Paradise Lost. It was last sunday morning, under a blue sky that i saw at a corner a hand-made sign announcing "For sale. Fresh Figs". My sister was driving. We saw the sign, passed the corner, looked at each other and then made a u-turn on towards the figs. Fresh figs in the middle of big, asphalt and cement, noisy, urban Toronto? really?
The coronavirus doesn’t exist in isolation — it feeds on other diseases, crises
Tiff-Annie Kenny, Université Laval
We may be in self-isolation, but the COVID-19 pandemic is clearly not.
It isn’t isolated from other social, environmental and health crises...
Changes in life: from Peru to Canada and then to… India!
Change is good. Right? At least that’s what everyone has to say when someone is going through a heck of a change
Coronavirus: How behaviour can help control the spread of COVID-19
Peter Hall, University of Waterloo
Amid the carnage of the First World War, a flu epidemic took hold in the front-line trenches and subsequently spread around the world, infecting...
Leaving the nest
As a young Latin American, who was raised in Canada, I feel privileged to have been exposed to the diverse values, opinions and way of living
How progressive voters can truly win in future Canadian elections
Jeffrey B. Meyers, Thompson Rivers University
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have won a minority government. They hung on in Québec, Atlantic Canada and Ontario sufficiently to forestall a Conservative government...
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...
