Some downplay seemingly ridiculous white nationalist groups like the Boogaloo Boys at our peril. Looking back at a successful coup engineered by the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma shows us why.
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People in high-risk groups are already more likely to be experiencing negative mental health effects during the pandemic. Spending the holidays isolated from family and friends may make matters worse.
Academics and others concerned with benefitting from peer professional collaboration can use COVID-19 disruptions as an opportunity to improve conferences through smart design.
Police organizations in the United States have become political players in the election. This is due to politicians' responses to the Black Lives Matter and anti-police brutality movements.
Reforming the police is possible, but it depends on applying pressure on politicians.
Leaked curriculum drafts in Alberta show a desire to revive old colonial myths. To face today's challenges, we need stories that teach how humans are related to each other and to all life forms.
Some horror films explore women’s struggles for empowerment, sexual freedom and self-fulfilment. Six movies show the ghost, bride, mother, vampiress, witch and monster as guises of vengeful women.
Recent Alberta legislation increasing privatization in the health sector risks undermining the public health-care system, and will likely put profits over the public interest.
Disabled Canadians and those with chronic health conditions have been left out of government COVID-19 policies and programs and are struggling financially.
Around the world, policing — as an institution — is being challenged. But calls to defund the police will fall short if they do not address the history of policing.
Every once in a while, the story that Beethoven was Black circulates in popular culture, but there's no evidence to support this claim.
First the Washington Redskins. And now the Edmonton Eskimos. It's about time professional sports franchises recognized the harm that comes from racist team names.
The political metamorphosis of Louis Riel illustrates one of the most paradoxical aspects of nationalism: how former enemies can be transformed into compatriots.
Scandals are violent shocks to social systems, yet not all questionable behaviour produces scandal. How can we explain that some figures escape the consequences of their own behavior while others don't?
Listening more deeply to what makes sounds meaningful for people within their respective contexts matters in an era of rising expressions of racism in the pandemic.
In the wake of protests about systemic racism, sports teams are under increased pressure to lose their racist nicknames. An Inuit scholar calls on the Edmonton Eskimos to do the right thing.
Television shows about police often perpetuate false narratives about violent crime that excuse police violence.
History will cast a long shadow over Donald Trump's first campaign rally since the pandemic began.
Research on excessive use of force by police and the sociological context and psychological characteristics of killer cops point to useful policy measures.
Researchers who visited parks throughout Alberta's bear and cougar country want to know if parks education is improving park-friendly behaviour.
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Professor of English, University of Alberta
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Professor, Department of Fine Arts, University of Alberta
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Energy Futures Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta
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Associate professor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta
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Professor, Environmental Science, University of Alberta
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Adjunct professor, Human Ecology, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta
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Professor, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Alberta
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Instructor, Faculty of Extension's Department of Communications and Design, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Alberta
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Assistant Professor, Organization Theory and Entrepreneurship, University of Alberta
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Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy; Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Public Health; and Research Director, Health Law Institute, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta
