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Snoop Dogg shouted out Canada’s First Nations in his ongoing social media campaign to promote his bid to buy the NHL’s Ottawa Senators. Snoop posted a video to Instagram in a recording studio and wearing an Ottawa Senators jersey. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout: Instagram @snoopdogg

The Ottawa Senators bidding war is about a lot more than ticket sales and star power

Liam Cole Young, Carleton University

The Ottawa Senators’ bidding war has important lessons about speculation and financialization in pro sports.
The growing interest in wellness is an opportunity for universities to provide evidence-based information beyond campuses, in the broader community. (Shutterstock)

Taking mental wellness education beyond the campus: How universities can help respond to the mental health care crisis

Joanna Pozzulo, Carleton University and Anna Stone, Carleton University

Mental health isn’t just about illness, it is also about wellness. Universities are well positioned to offer accessible, evidence-based wellness education to the general public.
A highway loops around a tailings pond at the Syncrude facility in Fort McMurray, Alta. The proximity of such toxic wastewater ponds to nature threatens its biodiversity. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

As Alberta’s oilsands continue leaking toxic wastewater, aquatic wildlife face new risks

Diane Orihel, Queen's University, Ontario; Chloe Robinson, Queen's University, Ontario, and Chris K. Elvidge, Carleton University

As toxic water continues to spill from tailings ponds across mining developments, decades of scientific research provides evidence of how wildlife will be affected.
A woman holds a sign during a demonstration calling for police accountability in Vancouver in May 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Data shows that police-involved deaths in Canada are on the rise

Andrew Crosby, University of Waterloo; Alexander McClelland, Carleton University, and Tanya L. Sharpe, University of Toronto

There have been longstanding calls for police and governments to collect and share data about incidents where the use of force caused injury and death to civilians.
International human rights mechanisms alone cannot offer reliable solutions to racism, including racism affecting racialized migrants. Protestors support migrant worker rights in front of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, in Toronto, in August 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov

Overcoming racism depends on respect for every person’s dignity

Evelyn Namakula Mayanja, Carleton University

Dignity is at the centre of many rights-based declarations, but to eradicate racist policy and practices, we must commit to noticing each other’s personhood in new ways.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino speaks during a news conference on the government’s plan to enable expungements for convictions under the Criminal Code for bawdy house, indecency-based and abortion-related offences in Ottawa in March 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Sex workers are left out in the cold by Ottawa’s unjust conviction amendments

Steven Maynard, Queen's University, Ontario; Gary Kinsman, Laurentian University; Patrizia Gentile, Carleton University, and Tom Hooper, York University, Canada

Experts on the history of sexuality in Canada say recent changes to the Expungement Act don’t go far enough, and they urge Canadians to reject attempts to divide marginalized communities.
Even if we achieve our global commitment to limit temperature increase to less than 2 C this century, climate change will continue to impact the culturally significant Rideau Canal Skateway. (Shutterstock)

The Rideau Canal Skateway: How can we promote resilience in the face of a changing climate?

Shawn Kenny, Carleton University

Erratic weather patterns occurring due to climate change may become a more significant factor affecting the season start and ice-building processes in the future.
Montana Republican congressman Ryan Zinke, once Donald Trump’s Interior Secretary, is among the politicians raising alarms about the Canada-U.S. border. Zinke referrred to migrants crossing into the U.S. from Canada as an assault. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The U.S. is playing border politics again — this time with Canada

Laura Madokoro, Carleton University

Rather than demonize migrants, legislators everywhere should address the issues that force them to migrate.
Justice Paul Rouleau, who headed the Public Order Emergency Commission last year, tables his report on Monday about the inquiry’s findings into national security issues and the so-called Freedom Convoy. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Emergencies Act inquiry report should tackle the racist origins of national security

Reem Bahdi, University of Windsor; Fahad Ahmad, Toronto Metropolitan University; Jeffrey Monaghan, Carleton University, and Yasmeen Abu-Laban, University of Alberta

Approaches to security issues in Canada today need to learn from the dire histories of what happens under the banner of national security.
Exemptions from funding cuts are needed to ensure trans and non-binary people can get medical care. (Shutterstock)

Cuts to telehealth in Ontario mean fewer trans and non-binary people will have access to life-saving health care

Greta Bauer, Western University; Ayden Scheim, Drexel University; Jose Navarro, Queen's University, Ontario; Kai Jacobsen, Carleton University, and Leo Rutherford, University of Victoria

The closure of the virtual Connect-Clinic means fewer trans and non-binary people will get the vital health-care services they need.
Bail hearings are underway for the eight teenage girls charged in the murder of a man in Toronto. (Shutterstock)

The young ages of the girls charged in the swarming death of a man in Toronto may affect trial outcomes

Joanna Pozzulo, Carleton University and Emily Pica, Austin Peay State University

Eight teen girls are charged in the stabbing death of a homeless man in Toronto. Research shows that jurors tend to respond when the perpetrator of a crime is or appears to be younger.

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