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The news from southwestern Ontario was horrific: a family out for a walk on a warm summer night was targeted because of their Muslim faith and struck down by a speeding truck. Four were killed and a nine-year-old boy is in hospital — the only survivor of an attack that is the latest example of Islamophobic violence in Canada.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Jasmin Zine of Wilfird Laurier University, who has been researching Islamophobia in this country for a decade, explains why it's wrong to assume that anti-Muslim hate in Canada only exists on the fringes of the far right.
Also today, we have two insightful articles about long-term care homes in Canada. Last year, COVID-19 devastated long-term care homes and exposed poor conditions in many facilities. It was a wake-up call that a lot of things need to change, both systemically and in terms of the individual well-being of residents.
Our two stories highlight different approaches to improving life in Canada’s long-term care homes. Based on research from the Exercise, Health and Psychology Lab at Western University, Kirsten Dillon suggests decreasing sedentary time — commonly known as sitting too much. In a study conducted before the pandemic, residents who reduced sitting time by adding short bouts of walking had improved cognitive function, physical function and quality of life compared to those who stayed in their chairs.
From a systemic perspective, Kristen Pue of Carleton University, Alix Jansen of the University of Toronto and Daniel Westlake of Queen's University look beyond the failure of for-profit long-term care homes to protect residents during the pandemic. Their research showed that non-profits also performed worse than government-owned facilities in preventing COVID-19 deaths.
Other stories for your consideration today:
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Patricia Nicholson
Health + Medicine Editor
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Today's Featured Articles
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Mourners gather at the scene of the hate-motivated vehicle attack in London, Ont., which left four members of a Muslim family dead and sent their youngest son to hospital.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Geoff Robins
Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University
Four members of a Muslim family out for a walk were killed in what police say was a hate crime. A researcher on Islamophobia in Canada says it's not just fringe groups that hold anti-Muslim views.
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Reducing sedentary behaviour in assisted living could improve health and independence for long-term care residents.
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Kirsten Dillon, Western University
What if assisted living facilities became more active communities, where the residents were less sedentary? This could potentially enable residents to gain more independence, rather than losing it.
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A worker is seen cleaning surfaces inside Little Mountain Place, a not-for-profit long-term care home in Vancouver where dozens of residents have died in the COVID-19 pandemic.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Kristen Pue, Carleton University; Alix J. Jansen, University of Toronto; Daniel Westlake, Queen's University, Ontario
The failure of for-profit long-term care homes to protect residents during the pandemic is well-known. But non-profits also under-performed governments in preventing COVID-19 deaths.
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A police officer stops traffic as people opposed to public health measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 march on Granville Street after the B.C. Grand Freedom Rally, in Vancouver, in Feb. 2021.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
James Gacek, University of Regina
Denial and deception can be harmful weapons with lethal consequences, neither logic or law is on the side of 'freedom' rallies.
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In buying MGM, Amazon is clearly demonstrating its ambition to dethrone Netflix and the race for the top spot in the video-on-demand market has never been tighter.
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Tchéhouali Destiny, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
In the war to secure exclusive content, the ability to invest in the acquisition or production of original content has become crucial ammunition.
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When children first begin to understand that a speaker doesn’t mean what they say at face value, they may think the speaker is lying.
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Penny Pexman, University of Calgary
Understanding sarcasm is related to the ability to recognize the thoughts and emotions of others, to empathize and to consider two things being simultaneously true.
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La Conversation Canada
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Gideon Mordecai, University of British Columbia
Le saumon du Pacifique partage ses eaux avec des saumons de l’Atlantique non indigènes élevés pour la consommation. Ils ont été contaminés par un virus introduit par ces derniers.
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Josep Lluís Pelegrí Llopart, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM-CSIC)
Les océans jouent un rôle essentiel dans la régulation de la vie sur Terre. Si nous voulons les exploiter de manière durable, nous devons changer notre regard sur eux et cesser de les surexploiter.
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Politics
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Cornell William Clayton, Washington State University; Michael Ritter, Washington State University
In Brnovich v. DNC, the court will decide whether two Arizona rules unfairly hurt poor, minority and rural voters. The ruling could determine the fate of many states' restrictive new voting laws.
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Health
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Richard Faragher, University of Brighton
Researchers think they've calculated the limit of human lifespan – but there's more to it.
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Science + Technology
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Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University
To understand what happened, you need to know what a CDN (content delivery network) is, and how crucial they are to the smooth running of the internet.
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