For more than a decade, I coached young baseball players. I was fortunate the parents of the kids I coached were generally supportive and easy to communicate with. But spending years around a baseball park – or a hockey arena or a soccer field – means you are bound to see parents behaving badly. Today in The Conversation Canada, Nick Holt of the University of Alberta looks at the elements of positive parenting when it comes to childhood sports and notes that coaches provide researchers with some of the best insights on good sports parents.

We’ve got two articles on sustainable finance: Diane-Laure Arjaliès and Tima Bansal of Western University tell us why the financial world must take into account the environment when investing in capital projects; Sean Cleary and Ryan Riordan of Queen’s University write that Canada has the talent, resources and institutional muscle to define sustainable finance for our economy.

And finally, in our Education section, Shaun Khoo of Université de Montréal looks at how open-access academic journals are a profit centre for publishers; Kimberly Lenters of the University of Calgary tells the story of “Charlene,” a Grade 4 student whose "off-task" skills could be overlooked as elementary teachers are being asked to work with larger class sizes.

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