Friends until the end
I never saw myself as a dog whisperer or even a potential pet owner. I admired them from afar and gazed at them as they walked past me on the street, but did not want the responsibility of caring for another being
Newsrooms not keeping up with changing demographics, study suggests
Asmaa Malik, Ryerson University and Sonya Fatah, Ryerson University
Over the past two decades, as Canada’s demographics have shifted, news organizations have failed to reflect the country’s increasing diversity...
Sending surplus food to charity is not the way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Elaine Power, Queen's University, Ontario
With the recent news that Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is...
More than food banks are needed to feed the hungry during the coronavirus pandemic
Elaine Power, Queen's University, Ontario; Jennifer Black, University of British Columbia, and Jennifer Brady, Mount Saint Vincent University
COVID-19 is revealing critical weaknesses in how we care for each...
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...
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...
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
Ontario’s child-care cuts will hurt low-income parents working or studying full time
Linda A. White, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto; Michal Perlman, University of Toronto, and Petr Varmuza, University of Toronto
Ontario’s recent provincial budget claimed to help...
Coronavirus is significant, but is it a true black swan event?
Glenn McGillivray, Western University
Since the “black swan” metaphor was coined in the 2007 book of the same name it has become fashionable to label virtually all low probability/high...
Fashion production is modern slavery
Anika Kozlowski, Ryerson University
Fashion shouldn’t cost lives and it shouldn’t cost us our planet. Yet this is what is happening today. Globalization, fast fashion, economies of scale, social...
