As we set conservation goals for the next decade, we need to evaluate what worked and what didn’t in our efforts to meet the 2020 biodiversity conservation targets.
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China has rich natural resources and is seeking to play a leadership role in global conservation, but its economic goals often take priority over protecting lands and wildlife.
As states and nations struggle to regulate growing AI use, municipal authorities are often leading the way. An emerging paradigm known as AI Localism can help us better define the way forward.
Longtime street performers in Old Montréal, a popular site for busking, feel as though the city is getting rid of them.
Gardens require huge labour, and outcomes like health, well-being or food security are affected by systemic barriers people face in cities and schools.
Approximately 8,000 merchant vessels travel the St. Lawrence each year. Its ports have become the catalysts that link trade, development and industrial innovation.
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.
There’s a continued necessity to develop the legal limits of police discretion, especially in advance of subsequent pandemic related restrictions that may occur.
Security and high-quality interpersonal relationships are essential factors for immigrants to create a happy life.
In covering femicide, media have a leading role, not only in awareness and education generally, but in actively shaping the construction of attitudes and beliefs that can help prevention efforts.
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.
Contending with Canada’s history means acknowledging different versions of the truth. Toppling statues won’t resolve the wrongs of the past — education is an important part of democracy and inclusion.
A key component in any planning around encampments is the voice of people with lived experience. It is clear the go-to response of policing is not working.
Large Canadian cities, usually major tourist destinations, have have experienced drastic declines in tourists and tourism spending while some regional hotspots have been overwhelmed with visitors.
Chinese-Canadian journalist Edith Eaton documented anti-Asian racism in Canada in the late 19th and early 20th century. Over 100 years later, not much has changed.
In 1959, three armed men broke into the University of Montréal and stole the whole supply of polio vaccine — 75,000 vials valued at $50,000. What have we learned from this event?
Some Jewish prayers are not only about an individual connection with God. They have a community dimension that is essential to their conduct.
Artificial intelligence is supported by an infrastructure of hardware and software that is growing increasingly present in our lives, yet remains hidden in plain view.
A rich diversity of Canadian Jewish experience is reflected in the poems of Miriam Waddington and the prose of Adele Wiseman, Fredelle Bruser Maynard, Helen Weinzweig and Shirley Faessler.
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Associate professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professeur titulaire, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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Professor of English and former Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Political Science, Athabasca University
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Associate Professor, Psychosocial Difficulties, University of Oslo
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Associate professor, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University
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Visiting Research Fellow, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Tourism Management, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Political Science, Concordia University of Edmonton
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Professor of Humanities, and Professor of Law; Guggenheim Fellow, Vanderbilt University
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Co-Founder of The Data Tank and Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory (GovLab), New York University
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PhD Candidate, Art History, Concordia University
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PhD Student, New York University
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Associate Professor Munk School of Global Affairs and Co-director Environmental Governance Lab, University of Toronto
