Canada's role in the migrant crisis

The crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border is not a Canadian problem. Or is it? Today in The Conversation Canada, Canadian scholar Tyler Morgenstern of the University of California writes about the “cozy alliance” between Canadian mining companies and the government in Honduras – a repressive regime whose actions have forced thousands of migrants to flee to Mexico and United States. It’s time for Canadians to stop indulging in the “fantasy that we are peripheral to the fate of Latin American migrants.”

We also look at why not all victims of sexual assault feel the need to go public as part of the #MeToo movement and examine why failure can often lead to success at technology-based companies.

Our final story is about boredom, but it’s far from boring. Michelle Fu of the University of Toronto has researched the history of boredom in Canada since the Second World War. She notes that “boredom is important for the development of qualities such as creativity and brilliant ideas.”

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In this April 2019 photo, migrants planning to join a caravan of several hundred people hoping to reach the United States wait at the bus station in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

The role of Canadian mining in the plight of Central American migrants

Tyler Morgenstern, University of California, Santa Barbara

Canada is playing a role in the life-and-death struggle for migrant justice in the United States -- from our foreign economic policies to the actions of our mining companies and domestic asylum laws.

A sign of how historical #MeToo felt in 2017 is this appearance by #MeToo founder Tarana Burke with TV personality Allison Hagendorf on stage at the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square on Dec. 31, 2017, in New York. (Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP)

#MeToo: Must sexual assault be denounced in public every time?

Kharoll-Ann Souffrant, University of Ottawa

Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, says power and privilege can have a lot to do with who feels comfortable declaring #MeToo. Let's be aware of this power division.

It took Thomas Edison countless failures before he succeeded in developing a marketable lightbulb. Shutterstock

Technology start-ups that fail fast succeed faster

Grant Alexander Wilson, University of Saskatchewan

Canadian technology start-ups that incorporate an approach that learns from failure tend to perform and innovate with greater success than start-ups that seek to assign blame.

Boredom has historically been an emotion both viewed as an enemy and embraced for its possibilities. (Shutterstock)

The fascinating history of boredom

Michelle Fu, University of Toronto

Scholars link the emergence of the term boredom to European industrial modernity, and the standardization of time, repetitive labour and development of leisure time associated with it.

La Conversation Canada

Sur l’application de rencontre Bumble, ce sont les femme qui décident. Mais les hommes sont-ils prêts pour cela? Wiktor Karkocha/Unsplash

Amour et désir sur internet: les hommes sont-ils prêts à se faire draguer par les femmes ?

Treena Orchard, Western University

Bumble, l'application de rencontre où les femmes invitent les hommes à sortir, s'appuie sur un modèle féministe de pouvoir. Le problème, c'est que les hommes ne sont pas prêts pour ce modèle.

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