Established in 1841 and one of Canada’s oldest degree-granting institutions, Queen’s today is a mid-sized university that provides a transformative student learning experience within a research-intensive environment A member of the prestigious U15 group of research-intensive Canadian universities, Queen’s conducts leading-edge research in areas of critical concern. Queen’s is also a member of the Matariki Network, an international group of research-intensive universities with a strong shared commitment to the undergraduate and graduate student learning experience.
Many hate the fight against toxic masculinity because they don’t want to let go of male identity altogether. They don’t have to. They just have to let go of the bad parts.
Many remote Indigenous communities are not connected to the electrical grid and produce their own electricity using diesel generators.
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A new federal program aims to reduce diesel-dependency in remote Indigenous communities. But are these communities able to do this on their own terms?
Une femme est soutenue, mardi, lors d'un service funéraire pour les victimes de l'attentat de dimanche contre l'église St. Sebastian à Negombo, au Sri Lanka.
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La puissance des cellules terroristes repose non pas sur leurs leaders mais plutôt sur leur complexité et leur fluidité. L’absence de direction au sens traditionnel du terme les rend difficile à contrer.
Plastics pile up at Thilafushi, an artificial island created as a landfill, in the Maldives.
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Les tabous entourant le cycle menstruel empêchent les femmes qui souffrent de menstruations abondantes d'en parler ouvertement. Pourtant, le tiers d'entre elles ont ce problème.
Canadian medical students graduate with up to $200,000 in debt, and burnout rates are high.
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A ‘learn local’ strategy, along with increased residency positions and the return of a rotating internship could go a long way towards improving Canada’s system of medical training.
In a political dispute with Ottawa, Doug Ford’s Ontario government has stopped funding legal aid for refugee claimants. This 2017 photo shows a young asylum seeker being held by an RCMP officer and her father after crossing the border into Canada from the United States.
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The recent decision by the Ontario government to drastically cut funds for legal aid will cause hardship for many low-income residents of Ontario and for refugees claimants.
Over the last hundred years, there have been at least three major waves of ‘progressive’ education in Ontario. Here, Premier Doug Ford with Finance Minister Vic Fedeli after presenting the 2019 budget at the legislature on April 11, 2019.
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In the run up to World Hemophilia Day, a clinician scientists shares what women need to know about heavy menstruation and bleeding disorders.
Although 90 per cent of Canadians believe accessibility is a human right, our behaviour says something different. Recently, an Alberta woman was turned away from a grocery store for slowing down check-out.
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Disability is a sensitive topic. Fear of saying the wrong thing prevents people from having important conversations about disability. Here is a guide to get past those barriers.
Large-scale literacy testing has not kept pace with how literacy is practiced in classooms, assessed by teachers and mandated by curriculum.
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Many of us still have a romantic view of farmers surveying rolling hills but our food in Canada increasingly comes from industrial farms aided by agricultural technology. What are the implications?
De nouvelles études démontrent que la dépression est très fréquente aussi bien chez les enfants que les adultes atteints d’autisme. Et plus courante chez ceux ayant une intelligence supérieure.
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De nouvelles études démontrent que la dépression est très fréquente aussi bien chez les enfants que les adultes atteints d’autisme. Et plus courante chez ceux ayant une intelligence supérieure.
People gather in the streets in Vilnius, Lithuania to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the country’s statehood.
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While many countries across Eastern Europe celebrate 100 years since they were born or restored as nation-states after the First World War, not everyone in these states are celebrating.
Bela Lugosi’s portrayal of Dracula in Tod Browning’s 1931 horror film is influenced by John Polidori’s tale of terror, ‘The Vampyre,’ first published — suggestively — on April Fools’ Day 1819.
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One of the reasons the myth of vampires endures and captures the popular imagination is that vampires are a powerful metaphor for a wide range of cultural practices and social problems.
Helping children think self-reflexively about their choices when they play is part of assessment in kindergarten.
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Student assessments help children develop self-regulation skills, but teachers don’t have the time when class sizes are large.
Flood waters cover large tracts of land in Mozambique after cyclone Idai made landfall. Rapidly rising floodwaters have cut off thousands of families from aid organizations.
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Here are some key factors of success to consider for western government taking on large projects – following these will help prevent the routine fails we often see.
A forest fire rages in California in November 2018.
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Increasingly severe losses for insurers due to climate change could result in a global financial crisis.
U.S. President Donald Trump with China’s President Xi Jinping during a bilateral meeting in December 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, OCAD University/Associate Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Cultural Studies (retired), Queen's University, Ontario