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Canada’s military has been accused recently by right-wing media commentators of being overly “woke.” What’s the problem, in the eyes of these critics? It’s been hijacked by activists forcing it to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Paul T. Mitchell, a professor at Canadian Forces College, takes aim at the critics. The Canadian Armed Forces’ efforts to diversify are not only long overdue, he argues, they’re absolutely essential if the military is to survive and thrive. Anyone who’s paid attention to the many scandals that have plagued the CAF in recent years, he adds, understands the urgency.
Mitchell writes: “These ‘woke’ efforts are aimed at increasing operational readiness by attracting more recruits from previously underrepresented groups, and building a diverse force representative of Canada and its values.”
Also today:
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Members of the Canadian Armed Forces stand at attention during a Remembrance Day ceremony in Montréal on Nov. 11, 2023.
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Paul T. Mitchell, Canadian Forces College
Efforts to improve the diversity and inclusiveness of Canada’s military do not need to compete with those maintaining military standards. In fact, each goal reinforces the other.
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With Gaza’s health-care system crumbling amid Israel’s military assault, patients whose lives depend on dialysis are at risk with fewer and fewer facilities and resources.
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Ali Iqbal, McMaster University; Aliya Khan, McMaster University; Ben Thomson, Johns Hopkins University
Patients with kidney failure need regular dialysis treatments to survive. However, the equipment, supplies and medical staff needed for dialysis have been largely destroyed by the assault on Gaza.
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A UNRWA staff member registers a Palestinian family who fled their house in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh to an UNRWA school, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023.
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Emilie El Khoury, Queen's University, Ontario
Recent moves to cut UNRWA’s funding are not the first time the UN agency has come under threat.
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An error in DNA is called a mutation.
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Camille Bouchard, Université Laval
Many people know someone with a genetic disease, but few understand how gene mutations work.
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When entrepreneurship programs do consider inclusion, most focus on gender without considering age, ethnicity, race or other identity factors.
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Barbara Jayne Orser, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Catherine Elliott, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
A toolkit for inclusive entrepreneurship education and training was developed with input from a 19-country panel of entrepreneurship educators.
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Au-delà du talent des joueurs à lancer un ballon, plusieurs facteurs influenceront son vol, à commencer pas ses dimensions, sa pression et sa texture.
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Giuseppe Di Labbio, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)
Les dimensions du ballon de football, sa pression et sa texture affectent son aérodynamisme, c’est-à-dire les forces exercées par l’air sur le ballon tout au long de son vol.
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Arts
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Mike Alleyne, Middle Tennessee State University
How did a musician whose songs were suffused with messages of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism become so commercialized?
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Environment + Energy
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Malcolm McCulloch, The University of Western Australia
Keeping the average global temperature rise below 1.5°C since pre-industrial times is a goal of the 2015 Paris climate deal. New research suggests that opportunity has passed.
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Science + Tech
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Thomas Woolley, Cardiff University; Fiona Mathews, University of Sussex
Maths plays a crucial role in new research which finds that bats “leapfrog” their way home at night.
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