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As Western Canada battles forest fires, thick smoke and a parched environment this summer, metropolitan areas in central Canada have experienced extreme flash floods as the result of violent rain storms. Today in The Conversation Canada, Deborah de Lange of Ryerson University warns that flooding due to climate change is the new norm yet city planners continue to allow developers to build houses on flood plains. Why?
It’s been a month since a guman killed two people during a shooting spree on Toronto’s Danforth Avenue. Jack Rozdilsky of York University, an expert in disaster and emergency management, looks at how the city is recovering after that terrible event.
And finally…a fascinating article by Adrianna Mendrek of Bishop’s University about how meditation and other mindfulness-based interventions can offer schizophrenia patients a route to self-acceptance and reduced anxiety.
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A woman gets back into her flooded car on the Toronto Indy course on Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto on July 8, 2013. Housing developers are building housing on known flood plains in cities around the world.
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Deborah de Lange, Ryerson University
Cities around the world, including Toronto, are building housing of flood plains knowing the risks in the era of climate change. Here's why that will contribute to growing inequality in our cities.
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A man holds a sign at a memorial remembering the victims of the July 22, 2018 shooting in Toronto.
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Jack L. Rozdilsky, York University, Canada
Toronto is still grappling with the fallout from two mass casualty events -- April's van attack and a mass shooting in July. A month after the shooting, how is Toronto moving forward?
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Research shows that some mindfulness-based interventions for psychotic symptoms can offer people insight into their experiences, and relieve symptoms of anxiety and depression.
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Adrianna Mendrek, Bishop's University
Anti-psychotic drugs work well for only about 30 per cent of schizophrenia patients. Meditation can offer them a route to self-acceptance and reduced anxiety.
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Health + Medicine
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Candice Chikura-Mtwazi, University of Kent
Gains made in the fight against HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe could be reversed unless a legal provision is revised.
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Culture + Society
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Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University
In the wake of new revelations about clergy sex abuse and cover-up in Pennsylvania, civil lawsuits brought by abuse victims may be the only effective way to hold Catholic church officials accountable.
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Environment + Energy
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Matthew J. Hoffman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Christy Tyler, Rochester Institute of Technology
Roughly 10,000 tons of plastic enter the Great Lakes every year, and scientists want to know where it ends up. There are some parallels to ocean plastics, but also important differences.
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