On an overcast afternoon in London in May 2013, an off-duty soldier named Lee Rigby was murdered near his barracks in Woolwich, southeast London. Rigby’s killers were two young British men of Nigerian…
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Whatever you do, don’t turn to Twitter for news about Ebola. The volume and tone of tweets and retweets about the disease will make you wish you were watching the zombie apocalypse of The Walking Dead…
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed Islamic State (IS) as a Muslim caliphate on June 29, 2014, with himself as caliph, a term reserved for a successor to the prophet Muhammad (PBUH). His would be the newest…
The only things that seem to be really growing in the UK and US economies these days are hunger and food insecurity. The growth of food banks and other forms of hunger-relief charities is a strong reminder…
Despite the enormous success of the environmental movement in the 1960s and 70s, we have fundamentally failed to use each of those battles to broaden the public understanding of why we were battling. It…
The deliberate act of falsely representing, labelling or advertising food, known as “food fraud”, is not a recent phenomenon. The deceitful adulteration of food has a long history based on the promise…
Mammals display an incredible diversity in size. The largest mammal, the blue whale, can grow up to 30m long and weigh up to 200 tonnes. Now compare that to the Bumblebee bat, which is 3cm long and weighs…
Global bans on rhinoceros products have failed, and legalisation is required to save rhinos from extinction, argue scientists. In a paper published today in journal Science, University of Queensland researcher…
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Cherokee Nation citizen, Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
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Killam Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
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PhD student, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of British Columbia
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PhD Student, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
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PhD Candidate at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia
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PhD Candidate, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor, Global Health Policy, University of British Columbia
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Scientist, Senior Methodologist & Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
