The new North American Free Trade Agreement (I still can’t get used to calling it USMCA) took one step closer to ratification when the United States finally removed steel and aluminum tariffs against Canada. That issue got a lot of attention, but today in The Conversation Canada, a team of international scholars looks at another aspect of the agreement – the troubling impact it will have on public health.

As a country, we spend on average more than $11,000 on every student. Which province is getting the most for its money? Jim Marshall of the University of Regina and Haizhen Mou and Michael Atkinson of the University of Saskatchewan have conducted a new study that looks at a provincial breakdown of per capita student costs compared to their academic achievement.

If you spend any time on Twitter, you’ll have the impression that we live in an extremely polarized country. But Howard Ramos and Rachel McLay of Dalhousie University have gone beyond the twitterverse to do an in-depth look at how Atlantic Canadians are feeling on some key issues like immigration and climate change. What they found was that there’s general agreement on many so-called polarizing issues.

And finally…the election in India comes to an end this week and Anil Varughese of Carleton University provides an excellent analysis of how the results might play out for incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s far-right Bhartiya Janata Party.

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