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As children and youth across the country head back to school, and schools seek to build relationships with students, families and communities, how are the needs of Black Canadian youth being met?
Today in The Conversation Canada, Tanitiã Munroe of the University of Toronto writes about an innovative approach to engaging Black youth voices that simultaneously serves to create better learning environments, support youth learning and help transform systemic anti-Black racism in schooling.
She writes: “Change is needed in the way Black students’ voices are positioned in education … Authentically empowering student voice requires that educators listen, validate youth knowledge and experience, and respond.”
Also today:
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In the Youth Participatory Action Research program,
Black youth take action on issues affecting their lives alongside receptive adults willing to act to support their ideas.
(Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages)
Tanitiã Munroe, University of Toronto
A leadership program for Black youth sees students participate in research related to their communities and education to propose solutions to issues that affect their lives.
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Frost can wreak havoc on a heat pump system and eliminating this risk is a key step in their widespread adoption here in Canada.
(Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP)
Amirreza Mahmoudi, University of Saskatchewan
Heat pumps are essential for the large-scale adoption of more carbon friendly heating systems and recent research suggests a way forward for reducing one of the technology’s biggest hurdles — frost.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin toast during their dinner at the Kremlin in Moscow in March 2023.
(Pavel Byrkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Kyle Matthews, Concordia University
The spectacle of two UN Security Council members — China and Russia — allegedly perpetrating mass atrocity crimes is deeply troubling. Here’s how the international community must step up.
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Placing vertical solar panels on farming land allows for energy production and higher yields.
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Joshua M. Pearce, Western University
Using agricultural land for both solar and food production presents huge opportunities for Canadian farmers, especially in Alberta.
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Les impacts sanitaires et économiques de la chaleur sont souvent invisibles et silencieux.
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Jérémie Boudreault, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS); Celine Campagna, Université Laval; Fateh Chebana, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Il est primordial que de nouvelles recherches soient menées afin de quantifier adéquatement les coûts de la chaleur extrême dans l’optique de réduire ses effets délétères actuels et futurs.
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Education
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David Baidoo-Anu, Queen's University, Ontario; Christopher DeLuca, Queen's University, Ontario
Ghanaians measure the quality of education by examination scores.
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Health
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Craig Russell, Aston University
From rat poison to explosives, many of the drugs we use have interesting origin stories.
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Science + Tech
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Dietram A. Scheufele, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dominique Brossard, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Todd Newman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Industry leaders, scientists and policymakers may see AI’s technical potential, but societies have trouble adapting to revolutionary advances without broad public participation.
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