Janet McLaughlin is an associate professor of health studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is also a mother of a young boy with autism. Today in The Conversation Canada, she writes passionately as both a researcher and a mother to explain why the Ontario government’s recent changes to its autism program will hurt children and their families.

Donald Trump was in El Paso, Tex., on Monday to make his case that the United States needs tougher immigration laws. While Trump’s immigration policies have gained a lot of headlines, Antje Ellermann of the University of British Columbia points out he’s not the first western leader to bring in discriminatory immigration policies – the practice has been around for more than a hundred years and still exists in many countries today.

Fans of the movie The Matrix will want to read the analysis by sociologist Mike Sosteric of Athabasca University, who says like the character Neo in the film who’s presented with the choice of a red pill or a blue pill, we must also make a choice about our future: continue to be a society addicted to accumulation or switch to a more sustainable way of living that may improve our quality of life.

And finally…Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching and Yue Qian of the University of British Columbia has an interesting article about love – or, really, the lack of love – in South Korea. It’s a story of why women are marrying later in life (if at all) and why government buildings sometimes go dark to encourage more dating.

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