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It's the long weekend and honestly, we should all get off our screens and into the outdoors. Summer is too short in this country....but, before you go, can we ask a small favour?
The Conversation Canada is conducting its first reader/author survey. If you have five minutes (it won't take longer than that, I promise), could you find some time over the long weekend to answer a few questions? The feedback we get will help us improve our unique model of not-for-profit journalism.
When you're back indoors this weekend, I've selected for your consideration a few of my favourite reads for from across our global network. Enjoy the holiday and we'll be back in your Inbox on Tuesday.
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Do you have a few minutes to help The Conversation Canada do a better job of serving its readers? If so, please take our first audience survey.
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Long Weekend Reads
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Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, University of Toronto
Canada's federal government is running out of time before the summer session to pass a bill that would pardon those convicted of minor cannabis possession.
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Sylvain Charlebois, Dalhousie University; Janet Music, Dalhousie University
Cannabis edibles will be legal in October. But the regulations set by Ottawa on cannabis edibles are confusing to retailers, making it difficult for Canada to lead the way for other countries.
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Iain Boyd, University of Michigan
During a military mission, whether in peace or in war, the inability to identify an object within an area of operation represents a significant problem.
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David Camfield, University of Manitoba
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 provides important lessons of worker solidarity and action that we may need to pay close attention to as labour struggles are likely to intensify in Canada.
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Adilson Motter, Northwestern University
A physicist reflects on the show's made-up Nobel Prize-winning theory of 'super asymmetry' along with how the series showcased authentic science and role models for future STEM students.
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Rebecca Sullivan, University of Calgary
Doris Day and Peggy Lipton, two very different icons of the postwar sexual revolution have recently died. What are their lasting legacies of white femininity?
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Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Curtin University
The power to select, name and decide the meaning of these items makes Europeans the authors of African history.
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Ellen Waterman, Carleton University; Jesse Stewart, Carleton University
When you listen to music, be sure to turn your ear to its social messages. Canadian songs have a lot of important things to say.
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