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While the world watches the ongoing discussions in Singapore between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, Canadians are still reacting to the Twitter tantrum from the U.S. president following the G7 summit. One of those tweets was about Canada’s excessive tariffs on dairy products. Did Trump have a point? Today in The Conversation Canada, Hugh Stephens of the University of Calgary takes a historic look at our supply management system in the dairy sector and argues convincingly that it’s a policy that needs changing.
There was another social media war involving a high-profile Canadian: rap superstar Drake. An old photo of Drake in blackface surfaced during his debate with another rapper. Philip S. S. Howard of McGill University explains the long and sordid history of blackface, including how it’s still a tool of racism in Canada.
We have an amazing slide show today of some of the incredible works from the inaugural Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto. Riley Kucheran of Ryerson University tells us all about the event and explains how Indigenous fashion is “a mobilizer of cultural and economic resurgence.”
And finally…it’s a topic no one really likes to talk about, but one we should all take seriously: bowel health. Gilaad Kaplan, Joseph W. Windsor and Stephanie Coward of the University of Calgary offer advice on how proactive medicine can prevent future problems for all of us.
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Diary farmer Chris Ryan and his cow Ninja take part in a protest on Canada’s Parliament Hill in 2016.
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Hugh Stephens, University of Calgary
Canada's protectionist stance on dairy products has attracted the ire of Donald Trump. The U.S. president raises legitimate points about a system that costs Canadians at home and abroad.
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Rapper Drake watches the action at an NBA game in Toronto in 2016. A recent battle between Drake and Pusha-T brought the issue of blackface back into the headlines.
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Philip S. S. Howard, McGill University
Is blackface ever innocent? Is it less racist when a Black person enacts it as a statement of resistance? Because of our history of deep and ongoing racism in Canada, the answer is no.
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Designs by Jeneen Frei Njootli on the runway at the Frost Moon Showcase at Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto last weekend.
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Riley Kucheran, Ryerson University
The organizers of Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto gathered a group of designers and creative thinkers to present and discuss the future of Indigenous fashion last week.
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Manipulating environmental exposures to optimize a healthy microbiome may hold the promise of preventing chronic inflammatory diseases, such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
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Gilaad Kaplan, University of Calgary; Joseph W. Windsor, University of Calgary; Stephanie Coward, University of Calgary
Halting the rapid rise in inflammatory bowel disease will require a proactive approach to medicine, and a focus on the gut.
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Health + Medicine
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Jennifer MacCormack, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Missing a meal can certainly push you toward a bad mood. But new research identifies in what kind of situations hunger is most likely to tip toward hanger.
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Culture + Society
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Mark Hann, University of Amsterdam
When Senegal face Poland in their first World Cup match in Russia, the whole nation will be roaring them on to victory.
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Politics
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Severine E Hubscher-Davidson, The Open University
Kim Jong-un may be able to "chat" in English. That's not enough to understand Donald Trump.
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