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.
Neutering or spaying pets has additional benefits beyond population control; these benefits include extending their lifespan, improving their health and reducing risk of certain diseases.
Parents can assure children that anxiety is a natural feeling they can learn to manage.
(Shutterstock)
Educational experts offer tips for parents and teachers to help children manage test anxiety but find that overall, policy-makers need to re-think what matters in schools and what’s worth measuring.
Around the world, government officials fail often at implementing policy and public sector projects. Here’s why.
(Shutterstock)
Research around the world shows a consistent pattern of failures in public sector policy and project implementation. Yet we continue to embark upon implementation built on bias and faulty logic.
Sur le réseaux sociaux, la vie peut avoir l'air extraordinaire ! Mais ça n'est pas trop dommageable lorsqu'on se rappelle que le contenu partagé en ligne ne représente qu’une partie de nos vraies histoires.
Shutterstock
Sur le réseaux sociaux, la vie peut avoir l'air extraordinaire ! Est-ce dommageable? Pas si on se rappelle que le contenu partagé en ligne ne représente qu’une partie de nos vraies histoires.
All demographics of people are suceptible to being deceived.
www.shutterstock.com
Coach students to analyze the credibility of sources, but teaching them how genre and experiential patterns can be manipulated is also relevant.
U.S. President Donald Trump is seen visiting the California town of Paradise that was devastated by forest fires. Trump has threatened to use funds allocated for disaster relief to pay for his border wall.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Donald Trump has threatened to use funds allocated for disaster relief to fund his border wall. It’s time to rethink how we frame disasters to stop politicians from using them for political gain.
Sometimes faking it on Instagram is just fine.
Bruno Gomiero/ Unsplash
Consuming too much social media when users end up comparing their lives to others more glamorous can leave one with bad feelings say researchers. But pretending or fantasizing is not all bad either.
John Lennon durant le concert sur le toit, le 30 janvier 1969. Ce sera la dernière prestation publique des Beatles.
YouTube
Prévu quelques jours plus tôt, le concert sur le toit des Beatles, le 30 janvier 1969, était leur dernier. Le pianiste américain Billy Preston y a symbolisé leurs efforts de collaboration mondiale.
John Lennon belts it out during The Beatles’ last concert, Jan. 30, 1969.
You Tube/The Beatles
Planned only a few days earlier, the Jan. 30, 1969 rooftop concert by the Beatles was their last. It is fitting the show included Billy Preston who symbolized their global collaborative efforts.
Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, right, is escorted by a member of her private security detail while arriving at a parole office in Vancouver in December 2018.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
In the absence of trust, greater cultural understanding is a powerful diplomatic tool and one that Canada needs to wield expertly when dealing with China.
In increasingly diverse societies, teaching must recognize the importance of affirming students’ cultural backgrounds in all aspects of learning.
Shutterstock
Culturally-responsive student assessment and evaluation is key to student success in diverse, globalized societies.
Military action during the NATO-led military exercise in Trondheim, Norway on Oct. 30, 2018. The NATO exercises included some 3,000 troops, 20 ships, several tanks and about 50 aircraft from various nations.
(Gorm Kallestad/NTB scanpix via AP)
Military exercises are more than just ‘war games’ – they’re aimed at signalling military capability and intent. But NATO must honour its commitment to transparency, and pressure Russia to do the same.
Ilhan Omar, a newly elected Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, joins other Democrats during a news conference in Washington on Jan. 4 about the introduction of the ‘For the People’ Act.
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Vivre avec un animal, et y être attaché, favorise la santé. Les enfants qui grandissent entourés d’un animal de compagnie sont plus empathiques et moins stressés.
Studies show that living with a pet has positive outcomes when pets are considered family members and not property.
Based in Québec, Porte Parole led by Annabel Soutar has toured and run several documentary theatre shows. Pictured here, ‘The Watershed,’ a docudrama about the politics of water in Canada.
Porte Parole
Reality based theatre is one way artists are challenging the lies put out by politicians like U.S. President Donald Trump, who exploits our contemporary insecurities.
In this December 2009 file photo, a member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, trains on a weapon at their camp in the Qandil mountains near the Turkish border with northern Iraq.
(AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)
Why did negotiations between the Turkish state and the Kurds, aimed at mitigating ethnic conflict and bringing about peace, fail in Turkey?
A person lights a candle to remember the victims of the Madrid train bombings in 2004. About 200 people were killed and over 1,800 were injured in a series of commuter train bombings in the Spanish capital March 11, 2004.
(AP Photo/Denis Doyle)
There is a common misconception in the West that leaders of al-Qaida and ISIS are recruiting and brainwashing people into giving up their lives for the Jihad. This is an incorrect model.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford arrives to speak in Toronto on Dec. 12, 2018.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Ontario’s premier is drawing faulty parallels between Franco-Ontarians and Anglo-Quebecers when it comes to the services available to them in each province.
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, OCAD University/Associate Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Cultural Studies (retired), Queen's University, Ontario