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Les travailleurs indépendants sont-ils seuls et isolés? Ou autonomes et libérés? Une nouvelle étude suggère que ces personnes qu’on imagine libres se sentent plutôt seules et impuissantes.
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L'avenir du marché du travail pourrait être solitaire et incertain pour de nombreux travailleurs.
Students involved with the Resilient Schools Consortium in New York City quickly grasped the need for climate resiliency in their school buildings. Students from Mark Twain Intermediate School are seen here in October 2017.
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After Hurricane Sandy, educators in New York City partnered with environmental and governmental organizations to put youth at the centre of preparing for risks and hazards in their school buildings.
The practise of smearing microbes from mom’s vagina to the mouth, nose or skin of a baby born from Caesarean section is called ‘vaginal seeding.’ It aims to boost the child’s immune system.
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A recent study of the newborn microbiome revealed that babies delivered via C-section were missing friendly bacteria and had picked up harmful microbes usually found in hospital environments.
John Legend and Kelly Clarkson released their version of Frank Loesser’s 1949 ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside.’ Here they appear at the Billboard Music Awards on May 20, 2018, in Las Vegas.
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In the #MeToo era, who better than People magazine's 'Sexiest Man Alive' 2019 to remind us that consent is sexy by rewriting outdated lyrics?
Are gig workers lonely and isolated? Or independent and liberated? New research suggests despite assumptions about freedom, gig workers report feeling lonely and powerless.
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L’élégance et la polyvalence inégalées de la main humaine, et ses connexions avec le cerveau, se trouvent derrière la façon dont les humains apprennent à lire et à écrire.
Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett (95) hits Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph (2) with a helmet during a National Football League game Nov. 14, 2019.
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Attempts to disrupt or challenge normative, sporty masculinity has been met by outrage by those who cannot see nor hear the tribalism and male privilege of masculinized spaces like locker rooms.
As teachers attempt to meet the diverse educational, mental health, and behavioural needs of their students, they face high rates of burnout.
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Unparalleled elegance and versatility in the design of the human hand, and the hand's connections with the brain, lie behind how humans learn to read and write.
Responding to the ever-growing amount of email can be a stress-inducing job task.
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Google's Smart Compose feature is meant to help deal with the deluge of email, but does it increase the pressure to respond quicker?
The platform of the People’s Party of Canada gets a lot of things factually wrong about the economic impact of immigration.
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The populist policies of Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada show a fundamental misunderstanding of how immigration has helped Canada's economy.
When a student dies by suicide, university communities grapple with the fact that an opportunity for a suffering person to receive help was missed.
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As universities advocate for 'zero suicide' frameworks, it is important for university leaders to work at suicide awareness, prevention and response, and to reinforce a culture of compassion.
The system of ‘birth alerts’ across Canada perpetuates the removal of children from Indigenous families begun by residential schools. Pictured here: a historical report on residential schools released by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
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To make meaningful progress on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Calls to Action, all provinces and territories should promptly follow B.C. and ban discriminatory 'birth alerts.'
Recent revelations about the lack of privacy protections in place at the companies involved in Facebook’s new Libra crytocurrency raise concerns about how much trust users can place in Libra.
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Recent revelations about the lack of privacy protections in place at the companies on Libra’s foundation raise concerns about how much trust users can place in Facebook's new cryptocurrency.
Reading books with your child means children learn to connect reading with feelings of warmth and sharing.
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Early experiences sharing and developing positive connections, language and communication set the stage for home reading to start children on the path to literacy.
A recent photo-voice project shows what can happen when educators help marginalized youth express their resistance to racism.
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A recent study suggests that marginalized youth feel supported and more resilient when adults encourage their ideas and missions to combat stereotypes, racism and Islamophobia.
Une bonne communication parents-enfants est un antidote au manque d'estime de soi et aux mauvais résultats scolaires.
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Les besoins des enfants évoluent dans le temps, de sorte que les parents devraient leur parler d'une façon adaptée à leur âge pour témoigner de leur intérêt envers leurs activités quotidiennes.
Parental communication can buffer against low self-esteem and poor academic achievement.
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Children's needs change as they grow and develop, so parents should attune themselves to talking to their children in age-appropriate ways that demonstrate ongoing care.
C’est un choc pour les vieilles générations de s’apercevoir que certains jeunes sont incapables de lire une note écrite à la main.
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Développer sa maîtrise de l’écriture manuscrite, de façon à ce qu’elle devienne automatique, joue un rôle important dans la littératie.
Pipeline pipes are seen at a Trans Mountain facility near Hope, B.C., on Aug. 22, 2019. Project Reconciliation is an Indigenous-led initiative that seeks to buy a stake in the pipeline.
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Project Reconciliation is a direct response to one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls that Indigenous communities 'gain long-term sustainable benefits from economic development projects.'
Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary