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Newfoundland and Labrador’s economic development plan includes attracting more immigrants. But the province needs to acknowledge the difficulties of systemic racism if it wants the plan to succeed.
Break-and-enters are consistently common among incarcerated sex offenders as their first, or gateway, offence. But police forces’ statistical manipulation allows them to go entirely undetected.
The top U.S. foreign policy goals in Africa evidently no longer relate to human rights or democratic freedoms, but to protecting tiny, marginal American industries.
Montreal resident Lucy Francineth Granados was deported to Guatemala last week. Media representations play an important role in these situations and exert much power over how we imagine our nation.
Police forces use widespread and often dubious practices to inflate their solved crime rate. Here’s how, and why, they do it, according to an expert on violent crimes and serial offenders.
The Panama Canal was a tremendous achievement by the U.S. and a display of their power and abilities. However, the health costs to the mostly Caribbean contract workers was enormous.
The experiences of women in Canada’s immigration detention system reveal emotional distress, and even violence, before, during and after incarceration.
The role of universities in the shameful Indian residential school system needs to be addressed. The president of one of Canada’s leading universities explains why it’s time to apologize.
‘Paul, Apostle of Christ’ is an enjoyable movie but its sugary message is like a can of soda: easy to swallow but not good for you with ideals that have have been manipulated to project a golden era.
Pregnant teens take their own lives, raped children are denied abortions and women who suffer stillbirth are imprisoned for 30 years – El Salvador’s torturous anti-abortion regime must end.
It’s not just women in impoverished countries dying in childbirth. The maternal death rate in both Canada and the U.S. has risen, particularly among Indigenous and African-American women.
Fitness apps which allow millions of users to virtually compete with each other can provide inspiration however, they may also be putting users in danger.
Women endurance runners are being celebrated in the advertising world yet the ads also create negative sentiments by focusing on ‘ideal’ running bodies - long, lean and masculine.
What kind of a country is Canada? One which truly welcomes and respects immigrants and their lives and safety? Or one which just says it does but brutally detains and deports them?
Given the progress gay rights have made over the last 40 years, we might believe we live in queer friendly North America and that homophobia is dead. But it’s not. It is just in disguise.
The TB epidemic is out of control in Canada’s North. Eliminating the disease will require accurate data as well as government investment.
Racial bias likely played a role in the Gerald Stanley case. This article explains how racial dynamics and process failures enabled systemic racism to play a part in Stanley’s acquittal.
The Commonwealth Games do not get the same level of media coverage as the Olympics. But a one-time Commonwealth gold medallist says the Games are still an important athletic competition.
Ecological grief - the mourning that takes place when we lose parts of the natural world - is likely to affect more of us in the future.
The federal government’s 2018 budget allocates almost $50 million over five years to support sports programs for Indigenous peoples. The problem? The money is going to a non-Indigenous organization.
When building a smart city, it’s vital that governments and citizens know up-front who will control the collected data.
The Canadian government’s criminal justice bill would abolish what are known as peremptory challenges. Here’s why that’s long overdue.
Fifty years ago Elvis Presley sang a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr: “If I Can Dream.” English professor Robert Morrison goes back to that moment and looks at the lyrics written in honour of MLK.
Black youth need programs that develop emotional intelligence – to combat institutional racism, social exclusion and white supremacy. The government’s promised $19 million is not enough.