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If you’re a Toronto Blue Jays fan — as so many of us are or have become in the past few weeks — have you been grappling with feelings of sadness or even despair for the past day or so after the team’s heartbreaking Game 7 loss on Saturday night?
I won’t deny that editing today’s lead story in The Conversation Canada was a bit painful, particularly pulling up photos of devastated fans and players.
The compelling analysis by Craig Greenham of the University of Windsor isn’t so much about the details of the Jays loss, it’s about how sports fans deal with feelings of anguish after their teams lose — and why they feel that way in the first place. In particular, Greenham takes a close look at Toronto sports fans and how they’ve been so traumatized by many of the high-profile collapses of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who haven’t won a Stanley Cup since 1967, that they now simply hope for the best but expect the worst.
As Greenham so poetically writes: “The fragility of this fan base is palpable — excited in hope, but also braced for doom because of its frequent visits.” As a lifelong Toronto sports fan, I cannot tell you how this line resonated with me.
Til spring training! In the meantime, please enjoy these other important stories today, particularly the piece on rebuilding Gaza:
All the best,
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Lee-Anne Goodman
Deputy Editor/Politics Editor
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The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate as Toronto Blue Jays’ Vladimir Guerrero Jr. walks past after the Dodgers won Game 7 of the World Series in Toronto.
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Craig Greenham, University of Windsor
Fans didn’t just watch the Blue Jays — they carried the emotional weight of a season. Here’s why fandom feels so personal, and how we process it all.
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The scale of devastation in Gaza is staggering after two years. Palestinians walk through the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Gaza City, Oct. 23, 2025.
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Mahmood Fayazi, Royal Roads University
History teaches us that Gaza’s reconstruction will only be successful if its people actively participate in shaping a safe, peaceful and prosperous future for themselves.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre walks into the House of Commons with newly elected MP Jamil Jivani in April 2024 in Ottawa. Both have called for an end to DEI measures.
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Marycarmen Lara Villanueva, University of Toronto
The future of equity in Canada depends on moving beyond simply counting racialized people in power and instead examining how power works, upholds injustice and can be transformed.
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Prospective MBA students should treat rankings as one data point among many.
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Catherine Heggerud, University of Calgary
Financial pressures keep business school leaders trapped in a paradox. They know MBA rankings are flawed – but still invest in them.
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La Conversation Canada
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Des étiquettes plus « douces » permettent aux institutions d’afficher un engagement public en faveur de l’inclusion tout en réduisant discrètement les politiques, la transparence des données et les mécanismes de responsabilité qui définissent le véritable travail en matière d’équité.
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Simon Blanchette, McGill University
Cette année, le recul des politiques EDI a pris une nouvelle forme : on assiste à un réétiquetage du terme « équité » au profit de mots moins clivants.
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Environment + Energy
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Dr. Zach Boakes, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN); Tries Blandine Razak, IPB University
Most restoration programmes focus their efforts on increasing coral growth, but rarely ask whether the reef is actually functioning as a living ecosystem.
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Health
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Julie Vignato, University of Iowa
Many people do not know about the serious harms that untreated pain in pregnancy can cause.
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Kimberly Johnson, Washington University in St. Louis; Amy Eyler, Washington University in St. Louis
If you see a health claim that seems too good – or too bad – to be true, take a moment to step back and assess the evidence.
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Politics
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Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong
US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial killings.
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