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Social ties can help entrepreneurs acquire necessary information and insights about their plans to exit a company, as well as provide them with emotional support.
Canada must consider funding programs that allow abuse victims and survivors to bring their pets with them when they leave their partners.
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the lack of green space available to those living in urban areas. Cities must be managed as ecosystems to make them more liveable and resilient.
There is no good police versus bad police. Police are police. They are the states’ organ of repression. There are a myriad of better scenarios than the current one.
Animal suffering not only harms other species, it endangers our own. Here’s how we can do better.
As many offices have converted to work-from-home operations during the coronavirus pandemic, the human connection needed for successful work cultures has changed for the better.
Contact tracing is being touted as essential to controlling the spread of COVID-19, but it comes with alarming concerns related to our rights to privacy.
The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic has caused Sidewalk Labs, a Google affiliate, to withdraw from the Toronto waterfront development partnership.
Canada’s free-trade obsession has made us overly reliant on global supply chains. That’s a huge unforced error given that 19 years ago, 9/11 showed us just how quickly border policy can change.
Society needs to spend as much time considering youth options for creating as we we do considering what can happen with digital learning, finds a study in Hamilton, Canada and Glasgow, Scotland.
Until we acknowledge that toxic white masculinity is fuelling mass murders, aggrieved white men will continue to commit them – and we’ll all continue to pay the price.
The Stanley Cup hockey finals were cancelled mid-series in 1919 because of the flu pandemic. Unlike a century ago, the NHL has put player health ahead of profit when dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
With so many people working from home on vulnerable networks and set-ups, cybersecurity is a growing concern.
In a social emergency due to COVID-19, schools are moving into uncharted territory where student assessment will need to flexibly and equitably adapt to changing circumstances.
Nurses, cleaners, grocery store clerks and other unionized workers have been on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19. They should emerge from it with a greater level of respect.
Video games are a fun diversion, but they can also build connections and help address feelings of isolation and loneliness.
An Ontario labour board decision to allow Foodora workers to unionize appears to have set an important precedent. But unionizing workers in the gig economy will continue to be an uphill battle.
A closer look at Canada’s hit TV show, ‘Hudson & Rex’, invites us to think differently about animals’ minds, work and contributions to our shared communities.
By providing users with pertinent and reliable disaster-related information, Twitter has the potential to reduce the impact of a disaster. So why aren’t public organizations using it properly?
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Associate Professor, Visual Arts Department, Brock University
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work, and Care, Brock University
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Professor of Philosophy, Brock University
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Professor, Biological Sciences and Psychology, Brock University
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Research fellow, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University
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Associate Professor and Chair, Communication, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University
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Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Human Dimensions of Water Resources and Water Resilience, Brock University
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Professor, History of Art & Visual Culture, Brock University
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Professor, Biological Sciences, Brock University
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Professor of Earth Sciences, Brock University
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Assistant Professor in Sport Management, Brock University
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PhD Candidate, Child and Youth Studies, Brock University
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Assistant Professor in Sport Management, Brock University
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Assistant Professor, Sport Management, Brock University
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Professor, Child and Youth Studies, Brock University
