Results from a recent study indicate that the emergency measures put in place in response to COVID-19 have disproportionately impacted Canadian mothers with young children at home.
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Unions must continue to try to recruit and sustain a critical mass of women, particularly visible minority and LBGTQ women, into leadership roles in the years to come.
Before the pandemic, only a fraction of students made use of the wide range of curricular and extracurricular experiential learning opportunities, but through online engagement that can change.
Despite the racial unrest that has rocked the U.S. for months, President Donald Trump finds support among some racialized communities, including Vietnamese Americans. Why?
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Masks are widely recognized as a partisan issue in the United States, but an ongoing study of public opinion in Canada shows that they are becoming politicized here as well.
Even before the pandemic, disabled people reported feeling socially isolated and lonely. Their plight has only been exacerbated by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 is not just a respiratory disease. Its neurocognitive symptoms are not well defined yet, so assessment is key to understanding the effects of coronavirus on the brain.
We can celebrate Dame Vera while rejecting racist myths about Second World War Britain and those who seek to use Lynn to advance a xenophobic nostalgia.
Canadian fathers increased their share of work at home — in housework and in child care — in the early days of the pandemic as work and routines put pressures on the family.
As Donald Trump’s re-election looks in doubt, supporters of the U.S. president will amp up conspiracy theories about billionaire George Soros.
Canada needs to reform budgeting and reporting methods to recognize the true underlying nature and value of expenditures on social infrastructure.
Just like in the days following 9/11, celebrities most successfully use their star power in the COVID-19 crisis when they appear to step out of the limelight, publicly praising first responders.
There’s no indication that handling cash increases your chance of catching COVID-19. But that hasn’t stopped countries around the world from looking at digital currencies.
Virtual health-care services have been on the decision agenda for years, but lack of financial investment and political will has hindered progress. The pandemic has provided the impetus for action.
Pandemic histories are useful for understanding COVID-19, but how they connect with race, public health, revolution, labour and colonialism are needed to explain the present and predict the future.
Physical training before surgery — like breathing exercises or running — boosts the odds of a good outcome. Patients with surgeries postponed during COVID-19 can use the delay for ‘prehabilitation.’
Recording and bearing witness to a Black person’s death from police violence is in itself traumatizing.
Gluttonous caterpillars are excellent crop pests — their kidneys perform several tasks that allow them to grow rapidly, while eating plants.
A research project may offer insight into how factors like laundry, food and art may be good places to start in addressing problems in long-term care homes.
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Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts, McMaster University
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Professor, Faculty of Science, McMaster University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University
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Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, McMaster University
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McCall MacBain Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University
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Professor, Political Science; Academic Director, Wilson College of Leadership and Civic Engagement, McMaster University
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Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University
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Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, McMaster University
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Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
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PhD Candidate & Vanier Scholar, Social Work, McMaster University
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Medical Sciences PhD Candidate, McMaster University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University & Chair Suicide Prevention Community Council of Hamilton, McMaster University
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Graduate Director and Associate Professor, Master of Communications Management Program, McMaster University
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Professor, Sociology, McMaster University
