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Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a fraud charge, which could result in a felony conviction. This agreement, announced on July 7, came after the U.S. government determined Boeing violated an agreement that had protected it from prosecution.
The plea deal is related to the approval of Boeing’s 737 MAX planes, two of which crashed in 2018 and 2019, killing 346 people off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia. Although the deal still requires a federal judge’s approval, the announcement has left yet another smear on Boeing’s reputation.
Today in The Conversation Canada, John Gradek from McGill University explains how Boeing has ended up in this situation and what it can do to restore its reputation.
Gradek writes that Boeing needs to regain public trust by demonstrating a commitment to quality and engineering excellence. He writes: “The world needs Boeing to return to its fabled engineering, safety and quality roots. Global aviation safety depends on the reliability of major aircraft manufacturers.”
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All the best.
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Eleni Vlahiotis
Business + Economy Editor
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Global aviation safety depends on the reliability of major aircraft manufacturers. The world needs Boeing to return to its fabled engineering, safety and quality roots.
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John Gradek, McGill University
Can Boeing overcome its current challenges and regain its reputation as a winning corporation?
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The issue of coercive control is better dealt with by addressing its root causes and listening to those victimized by it than by criminalizing it.
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Eden Hoffer, Western University; C. Nadine Wathen, Western University
Like mandatory charging policies, criminalizing coercive control could turn out to be harmful to the victim-survivors they were intended to protect.
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A small fishing boat sits at anchor off the hamlet of Pond Inlet, Nunavut.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Andrea Bryndum-Buchholz, Memorial University of Newfoundland
As the Arctic Ocean loses sea ice due to climate change, fisheries access is increasing and large-scale exploitation is on the horizon. Here’s how to manage the uncertainty and the risks.
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Space junk was found on a farm in southern Saskatchewan in April.
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Aaron Boley, University of British Columbia; Samantha Lawler, University of Regina
As the number of satellites and rocket launches increases, so does the amount of discarded rockets and components. This space junk risks falling to Earth, as it did in Saskatchewan this spring.
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The entrance to the emergency department at Peter Lougheed hospital in Calgary, Alta., Aug. 22, 2023.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Harini P. Aiyer, University of Saskatchewan
Soliciting medical student feedback about work placements in ways that provokes critical reflection about inequities is part of creating more accountable medical education.
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La Conversation Canada
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En 2022, la rue Wellington à Montréal était « déclarée la plus branchée au monde » par Time Out.
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Anne-Marie Broudehoux, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); Bernardo Emmanuel, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Le média TimeOut a fait grand bruit en annonçant que certaines rues de Montréal (Wellington, Saint-Hubert) sont classées « plus cool au monde ». Mais qu’en est-il vraiment ?
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Arts
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Joanna Mendelssohn, The University of Melbourne
MONA has demonstrated the art of thumbing its nose at a humourless male establishment.
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Environment + Energy
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Yvette Richardson, Penn State; Paul Markowski, Penn State
To capture the data needed to understand how tornadoes behave, scientists have to be near the storm. The ‘Twister’ movies get some of it right.
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Politics
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Serag El Hegazi, University of Bradford
Israel has approved its largest seizure of land in the West Bank in over three decades.
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