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The Soviet Union and now Russia has long viewed the Ukrainian diaspora with hostility. Here’s why.
Peer review of research sounds like it should be a conversation between equals. Instead, it can be patronizing, demanding and simply unkind. A group of journal editors thinks this should change.
Patient safety incidents were already a leading cause of death in Canada. With that crisis converging with the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care is being pushed to a breaking point.
New Zealand is accusing Canada of undercutting its commitments under the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership on dairy. Canada’s problem is that New Zealand’s case is strong.
Child malnutrition is no stranger to high-income countries. In Canada and the U.S., food insecurity affects one in six children under 18, but policies to address the issue are still lacking.
In this time of unrest, insecurity and fear, unions and their new, more diverse leadership offer a path to improving workers’ rights and repairing deep social and economic inequalities.
Racism and colonialism are not events but enduring structures written into law and media systems. Legislators should listen to what Black, Indigenous and racialized people are calling for.
Apa yang tampak sebagai aktivitas medsos normal memperlihatkan kenyataan yang jauh lebih gelap: penggemar sering kali mengarah ke percakapan berbahaya yang membentuk cara orang menangani kekerasan.
An inhaled COVID-19 vaccine would go directly to where the body would use it: the mucosal surface of the airways. This could mean less waste and more benefit, lower costs and reduced side-effects.
It has taken less than 11 weeks for the Russia-Ukraine conflict to become the greatest trigger for human displacement in Europe since the entire six years of the Second World War.
A study of students across Canada between 2004 and 2015 provides an estimate of anxiety symptoms in kindergarteners, and can serve as a baseline for comparing children’s anxiety after COVID-19.
When political candidates talk about their long-term care proposals, let’s remember there isn’t much point unless we recruit and adequately compensate enough workers to care for our loved ones.
Il faut comprendre l’écart entre les hommes et les femmes en termes d’orgasmes comme une forme d’inégalité entre les sexes.
What appears to be normal social media activity exposes a much darker reality: fan culture often leads to deeply harmful conversations shaping how people address and redress violence.
Online dating scams are costing site users millions of dollars. Regulation needs to hold companies accountable for fraud committed on their platforms.
Kindergarten educators who taught from home during COVID-19 and who were primarily responsible for their own children self-reported poorer mental health than those without these responsibilities.
Voyeurism provides a glimpse into the private life of another person to give audiences a revealing and entertaining experience.
Biomedical studies have traditionally used male animals and men as research subjects. That is a problem for everyone because for many diseases, there are sex differences in how they affect people.
Like other gender gaps, it is important to continue pushing past individual explanations and understand the gender gap in orgasms as a form of gender inequality.
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Professor of Geography, McMaster University
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Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
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Professor of Medicine, Epidemiologist, Physician, McMaster University
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Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University
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PhD Student & Vanier Scholar, Social Work, McMaster University
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Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Person Centred Interventions for Older Adults with Multimorbidity and their Caregivers, School of Nursing, McMaster University
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PhD Student, Communication Studies and Media Arts, McMaster University
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PhD Candidate, Political Science, McMaster University
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Associate professor, McMaster University
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Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
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Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Communication Policy and Governance, McMaster University
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Associate Professor and Director, School of Labour Studies, McMaster University
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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University
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Professor of Sociology, McMaster University
