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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is polling well among union members, an unusual feat for a right-wing politician. The NDP has historically been the party of the labour movement and has always promoted policies popular with the working class and unions. So what’s going on?
Today in The Conversation Canada, Chris Fairweather of McMaster University writes about how working-class Canadians appear to be particularly susceptible to far-right populist overtures — even though there’s a well-documented anti-worker and anti-union bias among right-wing populists.
But he points out that unions themselves may be playing a role in this trend, even as they try to confront it. He writes: “The labour movement has a long history of trading on nationalist sentiments to build broad support among their own members and in the wider community.”
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to the crowd gathered at a meet-and-greet in Stoney Creek, Ont., in March 2023.
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Chris Fairweather, McMaster University
The goal of the labour movement is to advance the interests of workers everywhere. Nativist narratives about defending Canada could explain Pierre Poilievre’s popularity among some union members.
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The increasing presence of AI may lead to the emergence of new religions.
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Neil McArthur, University of Manitoba
As human interactions with technology increase, AI-based religions are in our near future. While these religions carry risks for users, a tolerant mindset is important to consider worshippers’ rights.
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More than eight per cent of study subjects were ‘kinless’ at the time of their dementia diagnosis.
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Janelle Taylor, University of Toronto
New research affords a rare window into the circumstances and needs of a potentially very vulnerable group that until now has remained largely invisible: people with dementia who have no close kin.
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Salmon’s distinctive colour comes from carotenoids in their diet.
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Stefanie Colombo, Dalhousie University
Antioxidants in salmon’s diet give the fish their distinctive colour, but internet rumours proliferate about how farmed salmon achieve the same colour.
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Les termes Web3 et Web 3.0 sont souvent utilisés de façon interchangeable, mais il s’agit de concepts différents.
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Adrian Ma, Toronto Metropolitan University
Web3 est devenu un terme générique pour désigner la prochaine itération d’Internet. Mais qu’est-ce que cela signifie exactement ?
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Arts
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Kiki Tianqi Yu, Queen Mary University of London
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once invokes Daoism, the Chinese school of thought that pursues balance and harmony.
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Politics
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Andrea Stanton, University of Denver
University students today are too young to remember the March 2003 start of the Iraq War, which has future foreign policy implications and changes how the conflict should be taught.
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Science + Tech
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Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston
Our tendency to view machines as people and become attached to them points to real risks of psychological entanglement with AI technology.
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