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Tuberculosis is still the world’s leading infectious killer. Today in The Conversation Canada, Madhukar Pai of McGill University writes about a lack of ambition in the science and medical communities – such as the continued reliance on a vaccine that dates back to the 1920s – to eliminate TB once and for all.
Gun violence is one of the issues in next week’s mayoralty election in Toronto. Mayor John Tory recently used the term “thugs” and other terms to describe those he said were responsible for the violence. Tamari Kitossa of Brock University explains that such terms are seen as race-coded words that fuel anti-Black racism.
Kyle Matthews of Concordia University takes a hard look at Canada’s policy on Canadian nationals who have returned from Iraq and Syria after fighting for ISIS and suggests the right thing to do is prosecute them under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
And finally…how can blockchain technology help control an E. coli outbreak? Sylvain Charlebois of Dalhousie University explains how retailing giant Walmart is using blockchain technology to ensure better transparency and the ability to quickly trace the source of food contamination.
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A new short drug treatment for tuberculosis, called BPaMZ, is showing promise in trials.
(The National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (Georgia) on behalf of TB Alliance)
Madhukar Pai, McGill University
We cannot end TB with century-old technologies and poor quality care. It is time to reinvent the way we are managing TB, and overcome our collective failures of the imagination.
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In a political world, where words are pregnant with moral meanings, language is not innocent of racist content. Here a young man walks in his neighbourhood in Mississauga, ON.
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Tamari Kitossa, Brock University
Toronto Mayor John Tory's use of race-coded words to describe gun violence in Toronto, including "thugs, sewer rats and gangsters," stokes racism and serves to justify policing Black communities.
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Nadia Murad, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, listens to a question at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 2018.
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Kyle Matthews, Concordia University
If Canada truly stands for multiculturalism, pluralism, the rule of law, global justice, human rights and the liberal international order, we must prosecute our citizens who have fought with ISIS.
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Five people died and more than 200 got sick during a 2018 E. coli outbreak, the largest in more than a decade. The bacteria was traced to contaminated romaine lettuce.
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Sylvain Charlebois, Dalhousie University
With Walmart bringing blockchain technology to its grocery stores, other retailers will soon have to get on board.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen, University of Agder
The global poverty plot is thicker than what the World Bank would have us believe.
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Richard Marsden, The Open University
The HBO series can tell us a lot about how we view the Medieval world.
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