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The “voluntourism” business promoted by WE Charity conflicts with efforts to decolonize global health and international development.
Public relations is a form of manipulation, used to shift public opinion. It is expressly designed to benefit the organization wielding it, something we’d be wise to remember during the pandemic.
Disabled Canadians and those with chronic health conditions have been left out of government COVID-19 policies and programs and are struggling financially.
The stigma that dehumanizes people living with dementia is reflected in the toll of COVID-19 in long-term care. Reforming long-term care must challenge this stigma with a new ethic of care.
Canadian fathers increased their share of work at home — in housework and in child care — in the early days of the pandemic as work and routines put pressures on the family.
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed inequities throughout society. However, the pandemic also provides the opportunity to change, including in Canadian postsecondary institutions.
Unlike hurricanes, tornadoes and other weather phenomena, heat is a silent killer. The COVID-19 pandemic could make that worse.
What are known as ‘ag-gag’ laws impede the transparency Canadians expect from farms and food-production facilities, particularly dangerous in the COVID-19 period.
A plebiscite to amend the Russian constitution was a way for Vladimir Putin to extend his presidency to 2036. But many questions about the vote could mean trouble for the Russian leader.
Word that the U.S. has bought up the entire supply of the COVID-19 drug remdesivir is another reminder that in a pandemic, treatments and vaccines need to be accessible to everyone, globally.
The oil and gas industry was in trouble before the pandemic hit, but now it faces potential collapse. A majority of Canadians want the federal government to invest in a ‘green recovery.’
During the COVID-19 crisis, some medical students at school in Pokhara, Nepal, went to rural Himalayan villages to teach about the virus. Others go home to challenge social inequities.
Remote contact with families in the coronavirus emergency is critical, but learning on a screen is not how young children will gain the foundational and developmental skills they need.
Most local councils, developers and nonprofit providers want mandatory affordable housing requirements applied to all development. The current system of voluntary negotiations just isn’t working well.
What stories will we tell about library collections in the future? As digitization takes over libraries, margin notes and scribbles are still part of the research process.
Children in an Oji-Cree northern First Nation are learning traditional teachings about ‘Namebin’ (suckers) and working on literacy skills at the same time through a community literacy project.
Canada could emerge from this pandemic with a better quality, expanded and more efficient child-care system nationwide while making an investment with returns in the future.
Education should equip people not just with specific skills, but also with the knowledge they need to be citizens, and for occupations in which they can develop across the course of their lives.
A research project may offer insight into how factors like laundry, food and art may be good places to start in addressing problems in long-term care homes.
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Fellow, Dalla Lana Journalism and Health Impact, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Management, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at Ontario Institute for the Study of Education (OISE) and Senior Policy Fellow at the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
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Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto
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Professor Emerita of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto
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Kerry McCuaig is a Friend of The Conversation.
Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
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Fellow, Dalla Lana Journalism and Health Impact, University of Toronto
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Professor, Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
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SJD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Director of the Centre for Indigenous Studies; Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies and History, University of Toronto
