A week after the release of the report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, our nation is still debating the report’s conclusion that Canada has committed genocide against its Indigenous peoples. Today in The Conversation Canada, Frédéric Mégret of McGill University presents a convincing argument that the real issue is how Western society has come to define the term genocide. He argues we must denounce those traditional definitions and instead “insist that colonial genocide is genocide too. It is to recognize what happened in Canada over several centuries for what it is, despite the law’s best efforts to beat around the bush.”

Richard Foltz of Concordia University makes the case that it’s time for the international community to recognize South Ossetia as an independent country. Doing so would be the best guarantee for the preservation of the unique language and culture of South Ossetian people who live in the Caucasus, a mountainous area west of the Caspian Sea.

Next Sunday is Father’s Day and Nikki Martyn and Elena Merenda of the University of Guelph-Humber look at the research which shows the many positive factors that result from men taking advantage of paternity leave.

And finally….while most Canadian sports fans are caught up in Raptormania, there’s still this little thing going on called the Stanley Cup. (Game 7 is Wednesday.) Will Canadians ever tune in for the women’s version of a Stanley Cup? Peter Donnelly, a professor of sociology of sport at the University of Toronto, says professional female hockey players have an opportunity to look at a unique model to form a new league, including a model that would have the players own the league.

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