Elections Canada is in major damage control, just weeks before the launch of the federal election. It’s been widely reported that environmental charities were warned by the election watchdog that promoting discussions about climate emergencies could be considered a “partisan” activity because Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada denies climate change is caused by humans. Today in The Conversation Canada, Dianne Saxe – the former Environmental Commissioner of Ontario who is now a fellow at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School – explains why environmental charities are now afraid to speak up during the election campaign and how Elections Canada’s attempt to clarify its stance has clarified nothing.

We also look at the need for Canada to keep better stats on hate crimes against transgender people and explain the concept of “technological stewardship” – behaviour by engineers that ensures technology is used to make the world a better place by being more equitable, inclusive and sustainable.

Perhaps you’ve seen the headlines about “Jihadi Jack.” He’s the British-born man who joined Isis five years ago and is now being held in a Syrian prison. The U.K. government has stripped Jack (his real name is Jack Letts) of his British citizenship. Audrey Macklin of the University of Toronto explains why that controversial decision has now become a problem for Canada because Letts also has Canadian citizenship.

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