Ontario Premier Doug Ford was elected almost a year ago. Since he coasted to a majority last June 7, his personal approval rating has plummeted in the face of an array of funding cuts to the public sector – and he recently announced he was walking back some of them. Today in The Conversation Canada, Mark Winfield of York University looks at Ford’s first year in power and asks the question: Is the Ontario premier seriously rethinking his plans for the province, or is he just taking a breather?

Paying people to get healthy and stay healthy is actually effective, according to new research. Marc Mitchell of Western University says financial rewards can entice us to exercise more, and the benefits are long-lasting.

Jennifer Silver of the University of Guelph writes that West Coast fisheries policy leaves the door open to speculative investors who are snapping up fishing licences and quotas. She’s issuing a call for policy that mandates transparency, ethics, market regulation and innovation in Indigenous and coastal communities.

I know many of our newsletter subrcibers are at this week's Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences being held at the University of British Columbia. A reminder that today at 3:30 p.m., Vinita Srivastava, our Culture, Society and Critical Race Editor, is chairing a session called Why I Write, which features of some of our authors who will share their insights into the reasons for writing op-eds. Joining Vinita will be Yasmin Jiwani, Professor of Communications and Research Chair, Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University; Yue Qian, PhD, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of British Columbia; Warren Clarke, PhD student, Sociology, Carleton University and Roberta Timothy, Assistant Lecturer in Health and Social Justice, York University.

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