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More indoor sports competitions may emerge in the years to come as organizers seek to attract new audiences and respond to the impacts of climate change.
The fediverse promises an egalitarian, noncommercial alternative to Big Tech for social media, but there’s a lot of work needed to make it work.
Efforts to remove bike lanes in Toronto could result in more injuries and make transportation more challenging for people.
Premier Doug Ford received more union endorsements in his recent campaign. The impact of the endorsements may be exaggerated, but there are implications for Canada’s labour movement.
Post-war reconstruction must be multi-dimensional and based on a clear understanding of local conditions and careful consultation with the affected people.
Canada and other OECD nations are missing an opportunity by failing to fully utilize immigrant talent.
The U.S. administration’s designs to grab Canada, the Panama Canal, Greenland and Gaza are now in plain view.
No one died in the Delta Air Lines crash at Toronto’s Pearson airport even though the plane flipped upside down while landing. Collaboration between different rescue agencies was crucial to this success.
Cuts to literacy and language training for newcomers to Canada threaten the well-being of both migrant communities and all Canadians.
Donald Trump’s relentless threats against Canada are based on a series of lies that he continues to tell.
Three years ago, Ontario’s Doug Ford won an overwhelming majority government on the basis of the ballots of less than 18 per cent of the province’s eligible voters. Are voters still disengaged?
The Conversation Weekly podcast speaks to Robert Gehl, an expert on alternative social media platforms, about decentralised social media.
The Ontario government’s new policy directive to allow bids from natural gas and nuclear energy may hinder the province’s ability to transition to a cleaner and more sustainable energy future.
The defiance of the pardoned Jan. 6 rioters puts them at risk of becoming repeat offenders and prime candidates for the president’s proposed exile program.
Regardless of Donald Trump’s embrace of fossil fuels, the writing is on the wall. It’s not a matter of if the world moves away from them dramatically, but when.
Donald Trump’s vision for his imperial presidency is organized around an old and outdated idea: the revenue tariff.
Two researchers explain how the current DEI pushback reveals the discomfort people feel when their identity is challenged but they say it can also present an opportunity for learning and growth.
Online surveys are a great way to gather data, but there is an increasing risk that data collection may be threatened by ‘bad actors’ and artificial intelligence.
Refugees at risk now face longer wait times to come to Canada, and for those already here, longer periods of separation from family members abroad who remain in danger.
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Associate Professor, York University, Canada
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Professor, Disaster & Emergency Management, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies & Director, CIFAL York, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor, Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Masters Student, Development Studies, York University, Canada
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Professor, Critical Development Studies, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Research Assistant, Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
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Professor of English, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Masters Student, Faculty of Education, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor of Adult Education, York University, Canada
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Professor and Chair, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Canada
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Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University, Canada
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Research Assistant, Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
