The chaos on the southern U.S. border will likely have an impact on Canada’s border as well. Today in The Conversation Canada, Alejandro Hernandez from Carleton University says Canada must come up with its own migration management plans to help Central Americans who are escaping the horrific conditions of their home countries.

Isaac Nahon-Serfaty of the University of Ottawa tells us about another country in chaos – Venezuela – which is “on a path towards environmental devastation.” But he wonders why global environmentalists aren’t raising concerns about Venezuela the way that other countries are targeted.

Regardless of your profession, going “digital” has become a necessity. Or has it? Markus Giesler of York University examines his own world and concludes “the challenge in becoming a digital professor is not finding an audience of interested readers. The real challenge is withstanding the temptation of letting neoliberal agendas compromise your scholarship’s rigour, complexity and criticism.”

And finally…we continue to celebrate our first anniversary by looking back at some of our most impactful stories over the last year, as chosen by our editors. Today, we revisit some great Science and Technology articles.

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