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Malgré un intérêt mondial pour les régimes alimentaires durables, nous ne sommes pas très nombreux à emboîter le pas - seuls 5 % des Canadiens ont indiqué suivre un régime à base de plantes. (Maude Perreault)

Voici trois bonnes raisons de consommer des protéines d’origine végétale

Adopter une alimentation qui contient des protéines d’origine végétale peut comporter de nombreux bénéfices. Découvrez des astuces pratiques pour les intégrer à votre menu.
Tesla vehicles are parked outside of a building during a meeting between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing in 2019. Tesla is a company with both high reliance on North American technology and Chinese supply chains. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

How companies should respond to U.S.-China tensions and global supply chain disruptions

Research suggests that two factors are most important when making decisions on how businesses should respond to the U.S.-China trade war: location and supply chain dependence, and technology.
A pedestrian views his smartphone as he crosses a city street. Right-to-disconnect laws are aimed at improving the work-life balance of employees, but giving them more freedom over how they work might be a smarter approach. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

How businesses can best help employees disconnect from work

The best way to help employees disconnect from work is to allow them the autonomy to choose for themselves how, when and where to disconnect.
Researchers sought to understand how thinking about COVID-19 vaccine availability along different timelines might influence a person’s vaccine decisions. (Shutterstock)

‘Never’ or just ‘not yet?’ How timing affects COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

Vaccine hesitancy may be a waiting game. Even those who said they would never get the COVID-19 vaccine if it were available immediately became more likely to do so when it was available in the future.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gives a thumbs up signal after receiving his COVID-19 vaccine booster shot at a pharmacy in Ottawa on Jan. 4, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Canada isn’t responding with foresight when it comes to COVID-19

Canada’s strategy must include global engagement. Without it, we will be living on borrowed time, waiting for a new variant, a new booster, a new quick fix.
The future of protein includes lab-grown meat and plant-based meat alternatives. (Shutterstock)

Lab-grown meats and cow-free dairy can meet the demand for protein and help address climate change

Technological advancements in food production have created new ways to meet the growing demand for protein. Canada’s investment in this industry may create jobs and reduce carbon emissions.
Des personnes participent à un rassemblement lors de la Journée nationale de commémoration et d'action contre la violence faite aux femmes au Canada, sur la colline du Parlement. La Presse Canadienne/Sean Kilpatrick

Anniversaire du 6 décembre : les médias doivent faire partie intégrante de la lutte contre les féminicides

Dans leur couverture des féminicides, les médias jouent un rôle de premier plan, non seulement dans la sensibilisation et l’éducation en général, mais aussi pour aider les efforts de prévention.
People take part in a memorial rally during the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada on Parliament Hill. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Montréal Massacre anniversary: The media must play a key role in fighting femicide

In covering femicide, media have a leading role, not only in awareness and education generally, but in actively shaping the construction of attitudes and beliefs that can help prevention efforts.
Discussing and practising all the steps of a medical procedure with children can help them overcome fear. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

If your child is afraid of — or refusing — a medical procedure, here’s how to help

Children who avoid or refuse medical procedures like COVID-19 tests or vaccinations aren’t misbehaving — they need help to manage their fears. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help your child cope.
Manifestants argentins lors d'une manifestation contre la violence faite aux femmes, en 2007. Ils portent des photos de victimes de féminicides. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

La maison est l’endroit le plus dangereux pour les femmes… mais il y a un lien avec la violence publique

La violence privée et la violence publique garantissent que les femmes et les filles « restent à leur place » – celle que les structures sociales patriarcales ont prescrite.
Canoes are stacked for the winter on the Fort Hope First Nation in Northern Ontario, located in the Ring of Fire. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

Will debt, liability and Indigenous action see the sun set on the Ring of Fire?

Noront Resources share prices are climbing, but so too is Indigenous opposition to its proposing mining projects in the Ring of Fire. Now the mine’s viability is being called into question.

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