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Allegations emerged this month that an immigration detention centre in Georgia had been forcibly sterilizing women being held in custody. Today in The Conversation Canada Jerry Flores at the University of Toronto writes about the long history of racist and unauthorized medical practices that disproportionately target Mexican, Indigenous and Black women.
Flores grew up near “dingy, under-resourced hospitals in California” and heard stories like this from his parents and others in his community. “After hearing many more stories of medical negligence and forced medical procedures in the course of my research, I am no longer surprised when I hear about the U.S. victimizing Indigenous Peoples like my grandparents or other members of my community,” he writes.
Do not take his lack of surprise for lack of outrage. Although this most recent story comes from the U.S. immigration detention centres, similar tactics have been used in Canada.
Also today:
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Dawn Wooten, left, a nurse at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga., speaks at a news conference in Atlanta protesting conditions at the immigration centre.
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Jerry Flores, University of Toronto
The recent allegations against an ICE facility in the U.S. are part of a long history of forced sterilizations of Indigenous, Latina and Black women.
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A Mountain Equipment Co-op store in Montréal .
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Michael Parent, Simon Fraser University
Since its inception, Mountain Equipment Co-op has collected information on every single transaction of each of its five million members. In the current digital economy, this data is a goldmine.
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A health-care worker is seen wearing full personal protective equipment outside the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, B.C. on April 3, 2020.
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Peter Smith, University of Toronto
Health-care workers' access to personal protective equipment, along with appropriate infection control procedures, affected their mental health during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Australia’s move to increase fees for some university humanities courses reflects global trends towards market-friendly education that overlook what’s needed for human flourishing. Here, the University of Sydney.
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Alan Sears, University of New Brunswick; Penney Clark, University of British Columbia
Today's urgent inequality and environmental crises mean that more, not fewer, students should be studying history.
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The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in increased adoption of communication and network technologies.
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Yolande E. Chan, Queen's University, Ontario; Arman Sadreddin, Concordia University; Suchit Ahuja, Concordia University
Internet technologies and the devices that enable information access and transfer are useful in crisis management. Accessing these readily available digital technologies can help community resiliency.
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Sivane Hirsch, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR); Devorah Feldman
Québec a proposé un amendement qui régularise l’éducation séculière à domicile, permettant aux parents hassidiques de continuer d'envoyer leurs enfants aux écoles religieuses durant la journée.
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Arts
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Adrian York, University of Westminster
Kate Bush follows Joan Armatrading as the second female singer-songwriter to receive this honour in 2020.
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Environment + Energy
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Robyn Pharoah, Stellenbosch University
Smoke alarms are used extensively in formal buildings around the world to alert occupants to impending fires, but until recently they've not been used informal dwellings.
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Politics
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Curd Knüpfer, Freie Universität Berlin; Robert Mathew Entman, George Washington University
The conservative cable news channel particularly favors the term when explaining opposition to Donald Trump. This framing of the news can lead Fox viewers to see the world as us versus them.
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