We now know the day that marijuana will be legal in Canada – Oct. 17. That gives the government about 17 weeks to work out the numerous policies that are still not finalized, like updating the Criminal Code for drug-impaired driving. Today in The Conversation Canada, Andrea Furlan of the University of Torontoa has written a timely piece on what the science and research tells us about the impact of marijuana on drivers.

Doug Ford officially becomes premier of Ontario next week. One of his campaign promises was to repeal a controversial sex education curriculum brought in by the previous Liberal government. This is a giant step backwards for young people, says Abigail Curlew of Carleton University, who gives a personal account about what it was like growing up and not understanding what it meant to be transgender. “I had no language to explain how I felt or why I didn’t quite fit into the mould that I was being forced into,” she writes. “I didn’t even know that transgender people existed.”

Pierre Chaigneau of Queen’s University tells us about his new study into the salaries of CEO and how luck sometimes play a factor in what the boss is paid.

And finally…Donald Trump has backed down from his administration’s policy of separating children from asylum seekers, but the furor hasn’t subsided. Wilson T. Bell of Thompson Rivers University has an important article about the history of children and concentration camps throughout the 20th century.

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