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Reducing household waste poses serious challenges in residential high-rises
Reducing household waste poses serious challenges in residential high-rises
Many multi-unit residential buildings are designed or managed in ways that make recycling and proper waste disposal difficult.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reducing household waste poses serious challenges in residential high-rises
More dialogue, less debate: At an ‘Ethics Bowl,’ students learn to handle tough conversations
More dialogue, less debate: At an ‘Ethics Bowl,’ students learn to handle tough conversations
Ethics Bowl Canada hosts competitions where students, including science graduate students, explore complex ethical issues, like vaccines, through respectful dialogue in teams.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
More dialogue, less debate: At an ‘Ethics Bowl,’ students learn to handle tough conversations
How can Canada become a global AI powerhouse? By investing in mathematics
How can Canada become a global AI powerhouse? By investing in mathematics
AI shapes daily life but remains unreliable and costly. Canada can lead by investing in the mathematics that make these systems fair, efficient and trusted.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
How can Canada become a global AI powerhouse? By investing in mathematics
No, your brain doesn’t suddenly ‘fully develop’ at 25. Here’s what the neuroscience actually shows
No, your brain doesn’t suddenly ‘fully develop’ at 25. Here’s what the neuroscience actually shows
The claim that the brain, and particularly the frontal lobe, finishes developing at 25 is far less solid than social media would have you believe.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
No, your brain doesn’t suddenly ‘fully develop’ at 25. Here’s what the neuroscience actually shows
Author Saeed Teebi writes beyond exile in his memoir of Palestine and writing in dark times
Author Saeed Teebi writes beyond exile in his memoir of Palestine and writing in dark times
‘You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times,’ sees author Saeed Teebi examine the effects of the genocide on Palestinian art and imagination.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Author Saeed Teebi writes beyond exile in his memoir of Palestine and writing in dark times
The dangers of blurring fact and fiction in Holocaust TV narratives
The dangers of blurring fact and fiction in Holocaust TV narratives
When TV series sensationalize Holocaust atrocities for dramatic effect, it risks encouraging misinformation, denial and trivializing Nazi crimes.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The dangers of blurring fact and fiction in Holocaust TV narratives
Fossil-fuel propaganda is stalling climate action. Here’s what we can do about it.
Fossil-fuel propaganda is stalling climate action. Here’s what we can do about it.
New research highlights the role of fossil-fuel industry propaganda and suggests strategies to tackle false narratives about fossil fuels.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Fossil-fuel propaganda is stalling climate action. Here’s what we can do about it.
Everyday chemicals, global consequences: How disinfectants contribute to antimicrobial resistance
Everyday chemicals, global consequences: How disinfectants contribute to antimicrobial resistance
The disinfectants we trust to protect us from microbes may also inadvertently help those microbes evolve to become more resistant to them.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Everyday chemicals, global consequences: How disinfectants contribute to antimicrobial resistance
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December 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Climate misinformation is becoming a national security threat. Canada isn’t ready for it.
Climate misinformation is becoming a national security threat. Canada isn’t ready for it.
Climate misinformation is undermining emergency response during crises. Canadian governments need to develop co-ordinated efforts to tackle it.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Climate misinformation is becoming a national security threat. Canada isn’t ready for it.
How to protect your well-being, survive the stress of the holiday season and still keep your cheer
How to protect your well-being, survive the stress of the holiday season and still keep your cheer
Holiday season-related stress is widespread and predictable, but evidence-based strategies grounded in psychology can meaningfully protect well-being.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
How to protect your well-being, survive the stress of the holiday season and still keep your cheer
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Christmas classic that reflects bigoted ideas about ‘proper’ music in the 1940s
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Christmas classic that reflects bigoted ideas about ‘proper’ music in the 1940s
The film’s soundtrack features popular musical favourites and sounds of dread and discordancy, and some of these depictions reflect racist ideas about “proper” musical, social and community norms.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Christmas classic that reflects bigoted ideas about ‘proper’ music in the 1940s
The climate insurance gap is widening, and it’s leaving marginalized Canadians behind
The climate insurance gap is widening, and it’s leaving marginalized Canadians behind
Climate disasters are rising and insurance costs are, too. Canada’s poorest are caught in the middle.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The climate insurance gap is widening, and it’s leaving marginalized Canadians behind
After Canada legalized cannabis, police caught more drunk drivers
After Canada legalized cannabis, police caught more drunk drivers
Police reported more drug and alcohol impairment after 2018. The growth seemed more due to enforcement changes and pandemic restrictions than to legalized cannabis.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
After Canada legalized cannabis, police caught more drunk drivers
Universities’ work towards Indigenous identity policies signal difficult conversations
Universities’ work towards Indigenous identity policies signal difficult conversations
Apart from impacting individuals, false declarations of Indigenous identity can impact institutions’ reputations and harm Indigenous academics and research communities.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Universities’ work towards Indigenous identity policies signal difficult conversations
Sex, jazz, liquor and gambling: How Montréal’s nightlife shifted in the mid-20th century
Sex, jazz, liquor and gambling: How Montréal’s nightlife shifted in the mid-20th century
As cities debate how to sustain the nighttime economy while keeping residents safe, Montréal’s past reminds us that the way we govern the night determines who gets to belong in it.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sex, jazz, liquor and gambling: How Montréal’s nightlife shifted in the mid-20th century
Healthy habits and the holiday season: Tips for families to navigate eating, physical activity and sleep
Healthy habits and the holiday season: Tips for families to navigate eating, physical activity and sleep
Integrating simple habits can help your family maintain healthy eating, sleep and activity behaviours to feel your best during this busy season.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Healthy habits and the holiday season: Tips for families to navigate eating, physical activity and sleep
What happens when managers don’t act? New research reveals the consequences can be severe
What happens when managers don’t act? New research reveals the consequences can be severe
New research shows that when managers fail to respond to harmful behaviour at work, employees interpret that silence as a breach of trust.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
What happens when managers don’t act? New research reveals the consequences can be severe
Who benefits from ‘nation-building’ projects like Ksi Lisims?
Who benefits from ‘nation-building’ projects like Ksi Lisims?
Calling Ksi Lisims a “nation-building” project masks unresolved questions about who benefits, who bears the risks and how the project fits into a rapidly changing global liquefied natural gas market.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Who benefits from ‘nation-building’ projects like Ksi Lisims?
Despite increased public attention to sexual violence following #MeToo, Canadian news media continue to report in ways that are often harmful.:
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What has — and hasn’t — changed in the way news addresses sexual violence
Despite increased public attention to sexual violence following #MeToo, Canadian news media continue to report in ways that are often harmful.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Despite increased public attention to sexual violence following #MeToo, Canadian news media continue to report in ways that are often harmful.:
theconversation.com/what-has-and...
theconversation.com/what-has-and...
Calling Ksi Lisims a “nation-building” project masks unresolved questions about who benefits, who bears the risks and how the project fits into a rapidly changing global liquefied natural gas market:
theconversation.com/who-benefits...
theconversation.com/who-benefits...
Who benefits from ‘nation-building’ projects like Ksi Lisims?
Calling Ksi Lisims a “nation-building” project masks unresolved questions about who benefits, who bears the risks and how the project fits into a rapidly changing global liquefied natural gas market.
theconversation.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Calling Ksi Lisims a “nation-building” project masks unresolved questions about who benefits, who bears the risks and how the project fits into a rapidly changing global liquefied natural gas market:
theconversation.com/who-benefits...
theconversation.com/who-benefits...
Canada's expulsion of thousands of Japanese Canadians 80 years ago offers lessons in a world of sharpening borders, insecurity and talk of who does and does not belong in a national community:
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Canada’s exile of Japanese Canadian citizens: A shameful 80-year anniversary few remember
Canada’s expulsion of thousands of Japanese Canadians 80 years ago offers lessons in a world of sharpening borders, insecurity and talk of who does and does not belong in a national community.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Canada's expulsion of thousands of Japanese Canadians 80 years ago offers lessons in a world of sharpening borders, insecurity and talk of who does and does not belong in a national community:
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theconversation.com/canadas-exil...
There are opportunities to build classroom activities that genuinely reflect and embrace every learner in our vibrant pluralistic communities during the holiday season:
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School breaks privilege Christmas, and classroom strategies are needed to foster inclusion
There are opportunities to build classroom activities that genuinely reflect and embrace every learner in our vibrant pluralistic communities.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
There are opportunities to build classroom activities that genuinely reflect and embrace every learner in our vibrant pluralistic communities during the holiday season:
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Universities need to move away from competing over rankings, and instead focus on building a collaborative educational system that puts collective well-being first:
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Co-operatives empower people — and students need to know about them
Universities need to move away from competing over rankings, and instead focus on building a collaborative educational system that puts collective well-being first.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Universities need to move away from competing over rankings, and instead focus on building a collaborative educational system that puts collective well-being first:
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theconversation.com/co-operative...
Language about violence isn't descriptive, it's flawed and political. Each label can empower, stigmatize or shape expectations of healing:
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What’s in a label? Rethinking how we talk about gender-based violence
Language about violence isn’t descriptive, it’s flawed and political. Each label can empower, stigmatize or shape expectations of healing.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Language about violence isn't descriptive, it's flawed and political. Each label can empower, stigmatize or shape expectations of healing:
theconversation.com/whats-in-a-l...
theconversation.com/whats-in-a-l...