Supervised consumption sites provide essential community connections and services for those who use them. By closing them, governments are risking the welfare of people who use drugs.
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By only discussing fatphobia in the context of eating disorders, Taylor Swift illustrates how deeply individualized and depoliticized white feminism is.
Paying closer attention to the dangers of growth, especially the modern threats to democracy posed by the internet, allows us to best plan for a brighter future in Canada — not just a bigger one.
Students gain control over their own academic records or professional certifications, but blockchain’s immutability means mistakes cannot be erased.
A study of 25 heritage language schools in Edmonton shows how schools met the needs of migrant and front-line workers, resisted racism and built community for immigrants.
The question for all educators should be: How do we capitalize on COVID-19 initiated change to build better education systems for the future?
Frailty — the physical limitations of seniors living in the community — needs to be assessed before it can be addressed with social and health support. Virtual assessments can speed up this process.
A need for enhanced presidential power, inherited from the early days of post-Communist transition, ruined any chances of compromise between Ukraine and Russia years ago.
Fat people need to be empowered to critique the very groups so willing to instrumentalize their bodies for political gain.
As we ring in Lunar New Year, we need to celebrate Asian communities, their fierceness and courage; and demand bold changes for combatting anti-Asian racism and supporting well-being.
Algorithms have been shown to discriminate on the basis of race and gender. Studying age-related discrimination is essential to develop more equitable AI systems and technologies.
To prosper after the legacy of imperialism and colonization, Afghanistan needs partnerships and business investment, not bullets and bombs.
Organizations can reduce some of the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing customizable support measures can improve employees’ work commitment and well-being.
The continued reliance on outdated indicators of police performance reinforce conventional ideas of police sustainability rather than align with the concerns of “defund the police” advocates.
The goal of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, or GFANZ, is to bring together the financial sector to accelerate the transition to a net-zero economy. Here’s why it might actually work.
What’s happening in Belize is a work in progress. Its citizens pursue diverse self-determined actions along with repatriation as steps toward generational healing and redress.
Hearing technologies combined with artificial intelligence can be used to enrich the learning environment.
As we likely settle into a long-term relationship with COVID-19, this new relationship will not likely leave masks forgotten.
It has only been in the past century that weather prediction on Earth has advanced enough to work two weeks in advance. Predicting space weather, however, is only reliable an hour in advance.
As we celebrate Asian Heritage Month, the time is now to collectively centre dialogue against anti-Asian racism, with an optimistic view for a global reset.
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Associate Professor, Criminology, Athabasca University
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Associate Professor, Work and Organization Studies, Athabasca University
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Assistant Professor of Innovation Finance, Athabasca University
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Professor, Psychologist, Athabasca University
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Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and Human Geography, Athabasca University
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Professor of Organizational Analysis and Project Management, Athabasca University
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Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Disciplines, Athabasca University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Athabasca University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Athabasca University
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Professor of Open, Digital, and Distance Education , Athabasca University
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Associate Professor, History, Athabasca University
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Associate Professor of Digital Transformation, Faculty of Business, Athabasca University
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Professor and UNESCO/ICDE Chair in Open Educational Resources, Athabasca University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Disciplines, Athabasca University
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Assitant Professor, Faculty of Health Disciplines, Athabasca University
