There are two kinds of oyster people: those who love slurping the slippery seafood a dozen at a time and those who wouldn’t eat the raw shellfish if they were the only food available on a desert island. Today in The Conversation Canada, Jeffrey Farber, a professor of food safety at the University of Guelph, looks at the recent cases of people who got sick from eating raw oysters from British Columbia and explains how oysters become contaminated.

One of the major factors of crime, war and violence is inequity between two groups. DB Krupp of Queen’s University reports on new research he’s conducted that looks at the relationship between inequity and competition and how it plays out on the global stage.

Living so close to the United States, Canadians are unduly influenced by the media portrayal of conservative Christians like Mike Pence and others like him in the Republican Party. Galen Watts of Queen’s University says that portrayal has made it difficult for some people to realize there’s a progressive arm of Christianity.

And finally…we’ve updated a couple of stories we published previously to take into account recent news development. Michael Armstrong of Brock University looks at the issue of paying jurors a higher daily rate; Darin Flynn of the University of Calgary explains a new controversy that broke out at a recent Kendrick Lamar concert about white people rapping the n-word.

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