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Strip searching is a police practice that evokes racial and sexual trauma, and it’s also ineffective. It’s finally time to talk about ending this oppressive police practice.
About 10 million people live in Canada’s earthquake-prone zones. Yet few have practical knowledge of what to do with new early warning system alerts which aim to save lives and protect livelihoods.
Toronto’s Gay Community Dance Committee funded lesbian and gay liberation organizing in an unkind era that made community work not only difficult, but increasingly necessary.
When private contractors build schools they don’t necessarily meet the needs of communities for a lower cost than what governments can provide, and there’s less public accountability.
The Ontario government has, under Doug Ford, revised policies and approaches in favour of developers. Policy reform is essential to address the growing problem of unaffordable housing.
As demand grows for real estate and housing prices rise, more people are being priced out of the market. Government intervention is needed to produce affordable housing and control speculation.
More housing supply doesn’t mean lower prices. If policy-makers want to make homes more affordable, they must tackle developers who drive up prices and consider taxing capital gains on homes.
Our food systems are failing to feed all of us.
In this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we pick apart what is broken and ways to fix it with two women who battle food injustice.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the problem of food insecurity for many people, especially racialized and Indigenous households.
Canadians of Central American descent choose to heal and respond to ongoing trauma with care and community.
As we push for a real solution — an increase in housing supply and related supports — the encampment evictions must stop. We need to make encampments unnecessary.
Some of the worst risks of earthquakes are in a zone running from the Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence River that includes major cities like Toronto, Ottawa and Québec City.
Increasing even part-time remote work disrupts public transit revenue. Agencies need to adapt fare structures and business models to meet the changing work market.
Park policy must reimagine parks as more than a contributor to property value and consider how they can be used as community resources.
ActiveTO and programs like it across the country create more urban public space for exercising and can remove a major barrier to physical activity: lack of open and safe space.
The suburban-built environment whitewashes the violence and theft on which Canada is built.
Hotspot neighbourhoods with greater COVID-19 risk exposure continued to have higher infection rates even when they achieved vaccination levels equal to lower-risk neighbourhoods.
Our research suggests that incel discussion boards are surprisingly diverse. Despite this diversity, we find that incels are united by their hatred of women.
When public art pairs artistic expression with community engagement, it can honour the diverse communities that share public spaces and spur important conversations.
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Global Management Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Associate Profesor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Wilfrid Laurier University
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PhD Candidate, Political Science, Western University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
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PhD Candidate, Socio-Legal Studies, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Law, York University, Canada
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Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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PhD Candidate, Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Real Estate, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor, Sociology, Brock University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia
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Research Associate, School of Social Work, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
