Police officers take cover during an anti-gang operation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in April 2023, a day after a mob in the Haitian capital pulled 13 suspected gang members from police custody at a traffic stop, beat and burned them to death with gasoline-soaked tires.
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Henry Milner, Université de Montréal
The UN is calling for a specialized support force in Haiti, where urban gangs are terrorizing the population and people are starving. Why won’t Canada step up to help?
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A natural gas export project in Québec failed to pass a federal environment impact assesment.
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Kyla Tienhaara, Queen's University, Ontario
To address the climate crisis, governments need to limit new fossil fuel developments. But foreign investors are often protected under trade and investment agreements.
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If we want to see improvements in the lives of girls in Canada and beyond, we need to first think critically about why we tend to dismiss and invalidate their concerns.
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Alexe Bernier, McMaster University
In Canada, over 50 per cent of female students in Ontario have reported moderate to severe psychological distress. One in four girls has been sexually abused by the time they turn 18.
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Fatigue has been associated with a variety of psychoeducational issues, such as slower educational progress and more frequent school absences.
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Natalia Rohatyn-Martin, MacEwan University
Capturing the experiences of students who are deaf or hard of hearing is important so schools can address fatigue related to listening and communicating efforts.
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A healthy mind in a healthy body? Here’s what the science says.
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Matthieu P. Boisgontier, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Boris Cheval, Université de Genève
One genetic study of over a quarter million people highlights the cognitive benefits of exercise, while another, based on 30 years of scientific literature, says the opposite. Who’s right and who’s wrong?
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Les abeilles sont des animaux intelligents qui ressentent probablement la douleur, se souviennent des motifs et des odeurs et reconnaissent même les visages humains.
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Stephen Buchmann, University of Arizona
Les scientifiques découvrent des phénomènes étonnants sur la perception sensorielle et les capacités cognitives des abeilles.
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Arts
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J. Griffith Rollefson, University College Cork
Hip hop’s swaggering braggadocio acts as a counterpoint to the Roy family’s rarefied worlds of high finance and plutocratic untouchability.
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Business + Economy
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Valerie van Mulukom, Coventry University
Occasional boredom at work is normal and healthy, but if you’re stuck in it long term it can damage your wellbeing.
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Environment + Energy
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Charl Deacon, Stellenbosch University
Butterflies are sentinel species – their interactions with landscapes help scientists understand other insects better.
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Science + Tech
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Charles Barbour, Western Sydney University
A new book argues our philosophical and intellectual responses to technology have not kept pace with events.
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