Allegations about harassment, abuse and discrimination in hockey have rocked the sport over the past few weeks. Today in The Conversation Canada, Taylor McKee and Janice Forsyth of Western University argue the scandals don’t have to persist if the federal government and the leagues can come together around new safe sport policies.

Bike sharing was once proposed as a solution to narrow the cycling gender gap — women make up less than one-third of commuters who bicycle to work. But the gap appears to be further widening​, even as bike share programs are on the rise, according to Kate Hosford, Meghan Winters and Stephanie Sersli of Simon Fraser University.

Jay Wilson and Nadia Prokopchuk of the University of Saskatchewan argue that those teaching in publicly funded universities should be held accountable for denying the public record, whether in their classrooms or beyond.

Finally, Costanza Musu of the University of Ottawa issues a passionate plea for sparing cultural sites amid times of war. When the loss of heritage is used as a weapon of war, she argues, it represents a loss for the country affected as well as for humanity, targeting the memories, history and identity of a people.

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