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Protesters from across Canada came to the nation’s capital in Ottawa to demonstrate against vaccine mandates and other measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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Canada’s international reputation as a relatively peaceful country is at odds with the noisy protests by people opposed to measures aimed at preventing COVID-19.
Graffiti sur un bâtiment : « Les riches avortent, les pauvres meurent. »
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Alors que les débats sur l’avortement s’enflamment aux États-Unis, des luttes acharnées sur l’avortement ont lieu dans des pays où la religion joue un rôle clé dans la politique et la vie publique.
A man holds a sign on Parliament Hill to support trucks lined up in protest of COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions.
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‘Freedom convoy’ protesters are turning the language of freedom against their own governments. The implications and repercussions of this are enormous.
Fans cheer during the women’s snowboard slopestyle final at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
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From projecting onto athletes to aesthetic appreciation, spectators get a surprising amount out of watching other people play sports.
Universities and colleges need better, more easily accessible and culturally competent mental health services targeted to the needs of international students.
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Until Bolsonaro’s election win, sex workers had been gaining rights. His ultra-far-right, homophobic, racist and mysoginistic views have made the reality much worse.
People gather to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and masking measures during a rally in Kingston, Ont., in November 2021. Ottawa’s proposals to bypass publishing vaccine mandate guidelines goes against the principles of good governance.
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In a time-honoured tradition of Canadian democracy, government regulations become public when they appear in the Canada Gazette. That’s why Ottawa’s proposal to bypass that step is so troublesome.
Jonathan Marchand, a 43-year-old man living with muscular dystrophy, protested in a cage near the Québec legislature, in Québec City, on Aug. 13, 2020.
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We must support disabled people’s call to abolish long-term care and develop a national home care, palliative care and pharmacare system that funds and prioritizes their desire to live in communities.
Empathy is needed to understand and combat science skepticism.
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Instead of assuming that science skeptics are motivated by ignorance, or selfishness, we should listen to them and try to understand and address their actual concerns.
The graffiti on the building reads, ‘The rich abort, the poor die.’
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As debates about abortion heat up in the U.S. once again, we need to pay attention to the hard-fought struggles over abortion in other nations where religion plays a key role in politics and public life.
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Increased motorboat activity has resulted in an alarming increase in turtle injuries. Northern map turtles are an at-risk species, and boat collisions threaten their survival.
Cicero’s public and private correspondence provides a detailed look at political life in Rome.
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Although he privately disapproved of Caesar’s power, Cicero publicly supported him and Cicero also directly contributed to the end of the Roman Republic and the reign of Caesar’s nephew Augustus.
People carry out a “die in” to protest the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in Portland last week. The Rittenhouse case highlights the fluidity of white privilege.
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The lionization of Rittenhouse by the right proves that even skin colour is not enough to protect white people who support anti-racism movements.
Une résidente du CHSLD Rose-de-Lima, à Laval. La pandémie a révélé brutalement les lacunes des centres de soins de longue durée, et le besoin pour savante de soins à domicile.
La Presse Canadienne/Ryan Remiorz
La pandémie de Covid-19 a révélé aux Canadiens les mauvaises conditions de vie dans les CHSLD. Ils veulent des soins à domicile, et des politiques fiscales qui les soutiennent.
People protest outside the Tendercare Living Centre long-term care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scarborough, Ont., in December 2020.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
A study shows the COVID-19 pandemic has made Canadians fear sub-standard and dangerous living conditions in nursing homes. They want home care, and tax policies that will support it.
The science of metacognition studies how the mind can understand and control its own processes.
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Solving the cognition crisis requires we get smart about our own minds, and there’s never been a more vital time to do that.
Whatever costume you wear, put on your ‘sorting hat’ after trick-or-treating to help children lay the foundation for higher-level mathematics.
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Early exposure to everyday math at home predicts children’s school mathematics outcomes.
State surveillance has a big impact on the way RCMP treat Indigenous land defenders. Listen to our podcast for more info. Here, RCMP officers walk toward an anti-logging blockade in Caycuse, B.C., in May.
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In recent years, Indigenous land defenders have lived under increasing police and state surveillance while far-right, conspiratorial movements have not.
Our critical infrastructures are growing increasingly complex as the number of devices and connections in these systems continues to grow.
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