The benefits of midwifery for women and babies globally are clear. In Canada, innovations in midwifery centres and services are tempered by low pay and high rates of burnout.
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Applied Epidemiological Modelling has enormous potential to improve how decisions are made about public health in African countries.
Standoffs at sea represent yet another attempt by EU officials to obstruct the movement of migrants by producing further bureaucratic blockades to mobility.
Reparation opponents who oppose truth and reconciliation by insisting that America’s “original sin” of slavery is in the distant past should heed the lessons of Canada and South Africa.
As unlikely as it may sound, a new approach for fighting the destruction of wildfires in Canada’s boreal region may lie in wetlands packed with soaking layers of peat and topped with living moss.
Is a $25 million judgement against Oberlin College going to chill free speech – or is the wealth of a publicly subsidized private college helping polarize debates about race and politics?
Le deuil de ceux qui ont perdu des êtres chers dans l'attentat d'Air India n'a pas occupé une place importante dans la mémoire collective. Il en est revenu aux artistes d'occuper ce vide.
In the absence of broad Canadian validation of the bombing of Air India flight 182 as being worthy of public mourning, creative artists have tried to illuminate the ongoing grief of families.
As dads blog about their lives and changing norms and issues around fatherhood and parenting, they're pushing for social changes to benefit families in Canada — one blog post at a time.
La 1ère étude sur l'empreinte carbone de l'industrie pharmaceutique constate qu'elle est non seulement un contributeur important au réchauffement climatique, mais aussi plus polluante que le secteur automobile.
Narendra Modi's BJP views NGO activists as defiant because they challenge conventional notions of power, social structures and hierarchies that conflict with the idea of Hindu majoritarianism.
Media-savvy, far right-wing activists in the U.S., Hungary and Poland spread white nationalist politics using paranoid Soros conspiracy theories. This new global extremism is coming to Canada.
The first study to assess the carbon footprint of the pharmaceutical industry finds that it is far from green.
India's re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a victory speech that presented himself as a selfless and humble ascetic. This vision goes far to promote a Hindu nationalist 'new' India.
Liberal democracy is in trouble, and the seeds of its demise can be found in the property rights so cherished by so-called liberals generations ago.
A professor of midwifery education reviews the research evaluating the safety of home versus hospital births.
In an era of rapid technological advance, devastating climate change, increasing inequality and a steadily aging society, health-care leadership development is vital.
Canadian researchers have mapped smart city technologies throughout the country. The interactive map is intended to inform urban residents of the locations of technologies that may affect privacy.
The real scandal in U.S. higher education is that it's the most expensive system in the world, being subsidized by the working and middle class who increasingly can't afford public colleges.
Ticks are generally inactive in the winter and start to look for their next meal as temperatures warm up. But as winters warm, every season may become tick season.
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Phd Candidate, Political Science, McMaster University
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Professor of History and Global Human Rights, McMaster University
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PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, McMaster University
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University Scholar and Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
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Director of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University
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PhD Candidate in Sociology,, McMaster University
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Professor of Biology, McMaster University
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Assistant Professor, Midwifery Education Program, McMaster University
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Associate Professor & Chair of Eco-Entrepreneurship, McMaster University
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PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, McMaster University
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Professor, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University
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Professor of Sociology, McMaster University
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Canada Research Chair, Organizational Behaviour & Human Performance, McMaster University
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PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, McMaster University
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PhD Candidate, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University
