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Before getting to today's lineup, please allow me to do a little horn blowing: La Conversation Canada is now online, meaning we are finally able to publish expert analysis and research-based explanatory journalism in both official languages. Planning for La Conversation Canada has been going on for more than a year and you can read about it in more detail here in French
and/or English. At a time when traditional media is cutting jobs and reducing coverage, I'm proud to be part of this new form of journalism that is gaining more readers and supporters every month.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Allan Rock, a former federal cabinet minister and now president emeritus and professor of law at the University of Ottawa, along with Kyle Matthews of Concordia Universit, write about the UN Genocide Convention that turns 70 this month. They issue an urgent call for the world to reaffirm its commitment to the convention, point to modern-day acts of genocide and ask why the world isn’t acting to stop them.
The Christian right is an increasingly powerful force in American politics. And now it’s helping Christian right groups in Canada to organize and become more potent, according to André Gagné of Concordia University and Andréa Febres-Gagné of McGill University. Christian right groups in Ontario, in fact, have claimed partial credit for Doug Ford’s win earlier this year. (You can also read a French-language
version of André's article.)
Why do we know the story of Malala, the Pakistani student who survived a brutal attack on her school by the Taliban, but not the story of Ahed, a Palestinian girl who stood up to Israeli forces? Sarah Kastner of York University explains.
Indigenous entrepreneurship is growing at a rate six times faster than the general Canadian population, and it is 10 years younger. Culturally relevant financial literacy is critical to its success, writes Bettina Schneider of First Nations University of Canada.
Finally, Dillon Thomas Browne of the University of Waterloo has a sobering piece on the psychological health of migrant children in the so-called migrant caravan at the U.S. border. He writes that they’ll be deeply impacted by their flight from gang violence, and the experience of crowded unhygienic conditions and tear gas at the border.
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Our featured stories
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Residents stand near rescued Rohingya men after they were brought ashore by local fishermen in Kuala Idi, Aceh province, Indonesia on Dec. 4, 2018. A wooden boat carrying the hungry and weak Rohingya Muslims, forced to flee Myanmar and Bangladesh, was found adrift.
(AP Photo/Iskandar Ishak)
Kyle Matthews, Concordia University; Allan Rock, University of Ottawa
The UN's Genocide Convention turns 70 this month. It's time for the world to reaffirm its commitment to the international law and show the moral courage of our convictions.
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Ontario PC leadership candidate Tanya Granic Allen arrives to participate in a debate in Ottawa in February 2018. Granic Allen was supported by the Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), and the organization said it recruited more than 9,000 PC memberships in support of her campaign to became the premier of Ontario.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
André Gagné, Concordia University; Andréa Febres-Gagné, McGill University
Christian right groups in Canada may not have the same resources as their American counterparts. They are, nonetheless, attracting supporters by borrowing some U.S. tactics.
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Ahed Tamimi is in a courtroom at the Ofer military prison near Jerusalem, Feb. 13, 2018. The Israeli military judge overseeing the trial of Palestinian teenager Tamimi ordered all proceedings to take place behind closed doors.
(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Sarah Kastner, York University, Canada
Why do we know the story of Malala, the Pakistani student who survived a brutal attack on her school by the Taliban but not the story of Ahed, a Palestinian girl who stood up to Israeli forces?
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Indigenous youth planning on attending post-secondary education would benefit from appropriate financial literacy information. Here students Cheyenne Wilson, 13, Roy Joseph, 13, centre, and Connor Roberts, 13, after attending a presentation by B.C.‘s representative for Children and Youth at Shoreline Community School in Victoria, B.C., on May 15, 2018.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Bettina Schneider, First Nations University of Canada
Indigenous entrepreneurship is growing at a rate six times faster than the general Canadian population and it is 10 years younger. Culturally relevant financial literacy is critical to its success.
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Migrants begin their day inside a former concert venue serving as a shelter, in Tijuana, Mexico, Dec. 2, 2018.
(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Dillon Thomas Browne, University of Waterloo
The psychological health of migrant children will be deeply impacted by their flight from gang violence, and the experience of crowded unhygienic conditions and tear gas at the U.S. border.
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Culture + Society
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Samuel Putnam, Bowdoin College; Masha A. Gartstein, Washington State University
Children in countries like South Korea and Russia are more obedient, while American kids tend to be more self-indulgent.
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Environment + Energy
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Stacy Rosenbaum, University of California, Los Angeles
Male gorillas who spend more time with infants are expected to sire about 5 times more babies.
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