The impact of Hurricane Dorian on the Bahamas has been devastating. These massive storms are becoming more commonplace every year – and will only get worse as our planet’s climate crisis continues to unfold. Today in The Conversation Canada, Meinhard Doelle and Sara Seck of Dalhousie University report on two recently released climate reports by the United Nations Human Rights Council. The reports offer a grim prediction on how the effects of climate change will disproportionately affect the world’s poorest, risking the lives and health of millions of people located mainly in the Global South.

Wilson Bell’s research at Thompson Rivers University focuses on 20th century Russia and the Soviet Union – including the history of the Gulag forced labour camp system during the Stalin era. Today he’s writing about a new version of The Gulag Archipelago by Russian intellectual, novelist and 1970 Nobel Prize recipient Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – an edition that has a forward written by the controversial Canadian academic Jordan Peterson.

Those of us interested in politics are wondering when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will drop the writ to officially start the federal election in October. But before then, Manitobans will vote for a new provincial government. Shannon Sampert of the University of Winnipeg and Royce Koop of the University of Manitoba have teamed up to write an analysis of how Premier Brian Pallister has fared in a summertime campaign that hasn’t captured the attention of most voters.

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