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Remember a year ago, when we were looking forward to 2021 as the year we put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us and “built back better?”
It didn’t quite turn out that way, but here’s hoping 2022 provides us with some light at the end of the pandemic tunnel. Today in The Conversation Canada, Thomas Klassen of York University offers his insights on what big political stories are likely to dominate the headlines in the year ahead. While some, like continuing global vaccination efforts, are pandemic-related, there will undoubtedly be several developments on the economy and climate action. Various elections are also on the horizon, both domestic and international, that could be game-changers this
year.
Also today:
Happy New Year!
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Lee-Anne Goodman
Politics, Business + Economics Editor
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Voters follow social distancing measures at the Halifax Convention Centre as they prepare to vote in the federal election in Halifax back in September.
2022 will bring about a host of significant political issues and events that will impact communities both locally and globally.
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Thomas Klassen, York University, Canada
International relations, elections, climate change policies and the continuing pandemic are some of the political events to keep an eye out for in the upcoming year.
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Some plant-based foods are high in calories and sodium content.
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Meghan McGee, University of Toronto
As new years resolutions start pouring in, you may want to reconsider a plant-based diet if your motivation is health.
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Health goals are among the most popular New Year’s resolutions, but failing to stick to them is so common that it has become a cliché.
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Ryan Rhodes, University of Victoria
Over half of people who intend to make healthy lifestyle changes fail to do so. Understanding the automatic tendencies that prevent people from enacting a new health habit can help them stick to it.
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Chatbots could take over the majority of low-level guidance tasks fielded by staff in teaching and learning centres to free them up for where in-person support is most needed.
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Nadia Naffi, Université Laval; Ann-Louise Davidson, Concordia University; Auxane Boch, Technical University of Munich; Bruno Kesangana Nandaba, Université Laval; Mehdi Rougui, Université Laval
Chatbots can be part of a broader approach for universities teaching and learning centres to take in order to support faculty in innovating their practices.
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A Mayan spiritual guide arranges crosses, marked with the names of people who died in the nation’s civil war, in a circle in preparation for a ceremony marking the National Day of Dignity for the Victims of Armed Internal Conflict. Guatemalans annually honor the victims of the 36-year civil war that ended in 1996 on Feb. 25.
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W. George Lovell, Queen's University, Ontario
Twenty-five years after the signing of a peace accord that ended a 36-year civil war, Guatemala is still struggling with violence and corruption.
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La Conversation Canada
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Carmela Cucuzzella, Concordia University
Qu’il s’agisse d’installations de glace ou de projections d’art générées à partir de relevés de la qualité de l’air, les artistes proposent des expériences fortes qui font réagir sur l’environnement.
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Health
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Angela Beckett, University of Portsmouth; Samuel Robson, University of Portsmouth
Revolutions in genome sequencing have been used to track COVID-19 in near real time.
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COVID-19
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Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol; Ullrich Ecker, The University of Western Australia
We overestimate how much we think others want the world to return to its pre-pandemic ways, which makes us pessimistic about the potential to makes things better.
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Culture + Society
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Matthew S. Champion, Australian Catholic University
The calendar helps to give us a map of the shifting revolutions of the seasons, ordering our days. But how did it come about?
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Science + Tech
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Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University; Dam Hee Kim, University of Arizona; Ethan Zuckerman, UMass Amherst
Misinformation will continue to strain society in 2022 as the lines between misinformation and political speech blur, cynicism grows and the lack of regulation allows misinformation to flourish.
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