Leave the patchwork to the quilts: The case for pharmacare
Joel Lexchin, University of Toronto
On August 15, 2019, more than 1,200 academics, including me, with expertise in health care signed a letter to the leaders of Canada’s federal...
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...
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...
Fake news grabs our attention, produces false memories and appeals to our emotions
Rachel Anne Barr, Université Laval
“Fake news” is a relatively new term, yet it’s now seen as one of the greatest threats to democracy and free debate. In the...
El coronavirus y la fuerza de la selección natural
Manuel Porcar, Universitat de València
No es novedad que estamos viviendo una pandemia vírica sin precedentes. El SARS-CoV-2, causante de la enfermedad COVID-19, infecta a cientos de miles de...
If in doubt, let them out. Children have the right to play
Mark S. Tremblay, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa and Mariana Brussoni, University of British Columbia
New research from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Health Measures Survey reaffirmed the dramatic decline in Canadian...
Mathematical thinking begins in the early years with dialogue and real-world exploration
Helena Osana, Concordia University
It’s natural to think that mathematics is primarily about numbers. In school, we first learn how to recite numbers and then spend considerable time writing...
From across the globe to El Paso, changes in the language of the far-right...
Arie Perliger, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The recent shooting attack in which a young white man is accused of killing 22 people in a Walmart in El Paso fits...
The Amazon is on fire – here are 5 things you need...
Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo, University of Sydney
Record fires are raging in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, with more than 2,500 fires currently burning. They are collectively emitting huge amounts of...
A spanish poem written by a latin american immigrant
We make today an exception and publish the poem you will read below in Spanish, as it was originally written in Spanish by bolivian writer Camila Uriona –who lives in Mississauga
