If senior ministers of the Crown in New Brunswick responsible for Indigenous relations cannot accept or acknowledge Indigenous sovereignty, then surely nation-to-nation must be dead.
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The Canadian Armed Forces is struggling with sexual misconduct allegations and poor inclusion and diversity. It is imperative to again document the stories of LGBTQ+ soldiers and their spouses.
By paying greater attention to the originally intended application of the Canadian Constitution’s notwithstanding clause, along with the diversity of lawmakers in Canada, there’s a better path forward.
Being Canada’s next governor general will be Mary Simon’s most challenging diplomatic mission yet.
Anti-SLAPP laws are useful, and we need more of them across the country. They allow certain lawsuits to be dismissed at an early stage if they relate to public interest speech.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s government did not have a perfect environmental record. But at least things were starting to change.
In dismissing the youth climate case, the court acknowledged that climate change is serious, but not serious enough to reconsider the reach of the constitution.
In Oscar Wilde’s novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray,’ a painted portrait of the protagonist becomes ugly and twisted with age, much like Trump is represented as reflecting all of America’s evils.
Provinces shouldn’t prevent Canadians from seeking compensation if an essential service provider’s unreasonable acts cause COVID-19 infection.
Today’s urgent inequality and environmental crises mean that more, not fewer, students should be studying history.
The Paris climate change agreement aims to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures — and the federal carbon pricing plan was meant to help Canada meet its commitments.
Our brains use a function similar to a search engine’s autocomplete feature, but sometimes we get it wrong.
Students won’t be allowed to participate in activities at St. Francis Xavier University this fall unless they sign a COVID-19 waiver. That’s forcing them to make a difficult and unfair choice.
About 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and deported to concentration camps in the German Reich in the immediate aftermath after Kristallnacht, the night of the Broken Glass, in November 1938.
In the project Erasing Frankenstein, students, educators and incarcerated women collaborated to created an erasure poem of Mary Shelley’s classic text, and publicly showcase their work.
While the Wilson-Raybould/Philpott resignations are historic by the numbers, they may also prove historic in creating a new faith in federal cabinet, a previously elite and closed decision-making body.
New Brunswick’s language politics have vaulted ahead of its teetering economic crisis to potentially become the central political issue in 2019.
It’s time to stop surveying women about their experiences as rape victims, time to research the men who perpetrate these crimes and work to inebriate and isolate women.
We can learn a lot about our past from fictional stories. In ‘What is Left the Daughter,’ author Howard Norman presents a cautionary tale from the Second World War of xenophobia and prejudice.
The Greek model of supporting the arts is both old and ongoing; it embraces difference and internationalism and believes art is the cornerstone to civil society. We should learn from that model.
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Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick
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Associate professor, Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick
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Associate Dean of Arts & Professor of Psychology, University of New Brunswick
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Research Associate, Department of History, University of New Brunswick
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Privacy Officer, New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training, Research associate, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick
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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of New Brunswick
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Professor, Law, University of New Brunswick
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Associate Law Professor, University of New Brunswick
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Professor of Sociology, University of New Brunswick
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Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick
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PhD Student, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of New Brunswick
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Assistant Professor, Information Systems, University of New Brunswick
