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Just when the governing Liberals thought the SNC-Lavalin controversy had fallen off the public’s radar, last week’s report by Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has put the scandal front and centre just weeks before the start of the federal election. Today in The Conversation Canada, Nicole Wyatt of the University of Calgary examines Justin Trudeau’s dealings with former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and explains how an avowed feminist prime minister behaved so poorly with one of his female cabinet ministers.
We also explore why being an activist in Columbia can have deadly consequences and how the digital age – and the disappearance of paper records – is having a major impact on libraries and archives.
And finally…it’s almost the end of August, which means that allergy season should be in the rearview mirror. Except, why are you still sneezing? Cecilia Sierra-Heredia, Jordan Brubacher and Tim Takaro of Simon Fraser University report that climate change is creating longer pollen seasons – which is bad news for all allergy sufferers.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is embraced by Jody Wilson-Raybould after delivering a speech on the recognition and implementation of Indigenous rights in in the House of Commons on Feb. 14, 2018.
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Nicole Wyatt, University of Calgary
A firm PMO policy on respecting the political independence of the attorney general might have served Justin Trudeau better when Jody Wilson-Raybould first cautioned him against interfering in the SNC-Lavalin case.
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Women dance during a protest march against the killing of activists, in Bogota, Colombia, on July 26, 2019. Colombians took to the streets to call for an end to a wave of killings in the wake of the nation’s peace deal.
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Diana M. Barrero Jaramillo, University of Toronto
In Colombia, a 2016 peace agreement does not contain the ongoing violence. Violence escalates as criminal armed groups replace the FARC rebels in a violent battle for land and resources.
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Today, and into the future, consulting archival documents increasingly means reading them on a screen.
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Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo
As our societies lose paper trails and increasingly rely on digital information, historians, and their grasps of context, will become more important than ever.
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Cecilia Sierra-Heredia, Simon Fraser University; Jordan Brubacher, Simon Fraser University; Tim Takaro, Simon Fraser University
Allergic reactions to pollen may occur at different times of the year and for prolonged periods, and this will worsen with climate change.
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Les relations que les gens entretiennent avec leurs animaux de compagnie agissent sur le bien-être et la santé.
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L.F. Carver, Queen's University, Ontario
Les gouvernements doivent penser aux relations des personnes âgées avec les animaux de compagnie lorsqu'ils planifient l'aide aux personnes âgées et la gestion des catastrophes.
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Environment + Energy
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Mark Hemer, CSIRO; Ian Young, University of Melbourne; Joao Morim Nascimento, Griffith University; Nobuhito Mori, Kyoto University
A warming climate will affect the way waves hit over 50% of the world's coastlines, increasing erosion and the risk of flooding.
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Politics
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Michael Neu, University of Brighton; Robin Dunford, University of Brighton
The NATO-led military intervention in Libya has just fuelled more violence.
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Arts
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Rebecca Woods, University of Huddersfield
The word 'like' has a grammar, and by looking at it, we can learn a lot about what 'like' means and what it contributes to someone’s speech.
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